International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Presidential candidate Sergey Bubka has promised to double the amount of administrative grants for National Federations, while also calling for the sport's world governing body to appoint a chief executive.

Hosts Russia won the European Team Championships Super League title for the fourth time in the six stagings of the competition in Cheboksary on a day when five more event records were broken.

Hosts Russia hold a five points overnight lead over defending champions Germany, 186-181, in the European Team Championships in Cheboksary followng  the opening day of competition which saw five event records beaten and one equalled.

An unofficial world record by Paralympian Cassie Mitchell headlined the opening day of the US Paralympics Track and Field National Championships held at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Mo Farah, whose coach Alberto Salazar was alleged to have engaged in past doping violations involving other athletes in his group by a BBC Panorama programme aired earlier this month, has posted a statement on Facebook insisting he has never taken performance-enhancing drugs, and adding that the last weeks have been “the toughest of my life".

Svein Arne Hansen, the new European Athletics President, has today made good on his intention to include more women in the organisation in announcing the names of the 14 females appointed to Commissions following last weekend’s Council meeting in Oslo.

Media pressure on Mo Farah, whose coach Alberto Salazar was alleged to have engaged in doping violations by a BBC Panorama programme aired earlier this month, has continued to grow with a claim by the Daily Mail that he missed two random drug tests before he won his Olympic 5000/10,000 metres double at the London 2012 Games.

Ron Clarke, Australia’s revered Olympic distance runner and more recently Mayor of the Gold Coast, has died aged 78 after a short illness.

Usain Bolt, running at the Icahn Stadium at Randall’s Island where he set his first 100 metres world record in 2008, produced what he described as "one of the worst races I've run,” as he earned a narrow victory in the 200m at the International Association of Athletic Federations’ Diamond League meeting in New York City.

European Athletics’ new President Svein Arne Hansen has welcomed the Council’s approval of his plan to restructure the organisation’s Commissions – a key part of his election campaign – at the conclusion of its meeting in Oslo, where Hansen, meet director of the Bislett Games for 24 years, has also played a key part in the celebrations of the meeting’s  50th Anniversary.

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) President Brian Lewis has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to speed-up the process to re-distribute medals from the London 2012 4x100 metres relay, claiming it is “not fair on clean athletes”.

Sergey Bubka paid a hastily-arranged visit to Kathmandu, at the invitation of the Nepal Athletics Association (NAA), as it was confirmed that the Olympic Movement has promised $500,000 (£322,000/€445,000) to help the nation rebuild in the wake of the devastating recent earthquakes.

On a special night that was supposed to belong to established names such as Mutaz Essa Barshim, Bohdan Bondarenko and Genzebe Dibaba, the 50th Anniversary running of the Bislett Games - watched by illustrious past performers such as John Walker, Ingrid Kristiansen, Roger Moens, Henry Rono, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram - will be remembered instead for three unlikely victors in Britain’s 1500 metres runner Laura Muir, China’s high jumper Guowei Zhang and Israeli javelin thrower Marharyata Dorozhon.