Saudi consortium out of running to buy Chelsea
LA Dodgers owner among frontrunners to acquire club from Roman Abramovich
Russia closer to return amid ‘guarded optimism’ from athletics ruling body
Russia reported to be making steady progress to meeting conditions of reinstatement
Female athletes the target of 87 per cent of online abuse during Tokyo Olympics
World Athletics study shows 65 per cent of abusive posts warranted intervention
Millrose Games to make Irish TV debut as TG4 strike new broadcast deal
All seven of the World Indoor Tour Gold meetings will be broadcast live next year
Moyna sees no reason to jump to conclusions over Murphy’s law
DCU professor says players well able to cope with demands of pandemic-impacted season
Japan’s grand Olympics vision continues to falter amid political failures
Government’s handling of coronavirus pandemic means Games remain in doubt
Arrogance personified? When mudlark John Treacy upstaged Steve Ovett
The Irishman snatching the race from Ovett in 1980 is an indelible childhood memory
Olympic Stadium in Tokyo hosts 420 athletes competing across 20 events
11 test events have now taken place in Japan since last month with no positive cases
Caster Semenya will not go quietly. And why should she?
‘They want me to take my own system down. I’m not sick. I don’t need drugs’
Sebastian Coe dismisses concerns over Nike track spikes
World Athletics president ‘pretty calm’ about Dragonfly spikes and won't ‘stifle innovation’
Russia opts to pay €5.5m fine to escape expulsion from World Athletics
World Athletics warn a ban will come into effect immediately if payment is not made
World Athletics confirm new qualification process for Olympic Games
Main Tokyo qualification principles remain unchanged for 2021 staging
Clean anti-doping record required for World Athletics welfare grant
World Athletics offering one-off grant for struggling Olympians during Covid-19 crisis
World Athletics Championship refixed for July 2022
Event in Oregon will be followed by Commonwealth Games and European Championships in busy summer
Tokyo Olympics likely to start on July 23rd 2021, reports
IOC trying to reschedule Games which were postponed last week due to coronavirus
Coronavirus: Pressure continues to grow on IOC to postpone Olympics
IOC'S Dick Pound claims decision has already been made to push back Games
John Treacy calls for 2020 Olympics to be postponed
Sport Ireland CEO is latest voice in growing calls for IOC to push the Games back
World Athletics publish amended rules over competition running shoes
Shoes must be available on the open market four months before they can be used in competition
Sebastian Coe: ‘Change was turbo-charged because we needed it to be’
World Athletics president focuses on future after term dogged by doping scandals
Ciara Mageean eyeing a place in 1,500m final
Asher-Smith wins 200m to deliver first gold for Britain in World Championships
IAAF president Sebastian Coe launches stinging attack on BBC and Gabby Logan
‘It’s very easy to sit there and make all sorts of Gabby Logan-type judgments . . . and clear off back to Match of the Day’
Caster Semenya insists she is 'no threat' to women's sport
‘She was born a woman, raised a woman, socialised as a woman, competed as a woman’
Caster Semenya accuses IAAF of breaching confidentiality
Olympian seeks to overturn regulations on hyperandrogenic athletes' testosterone levels
‘An inspiration to work with, a joy to be near’: tributes pour in for Tessa Jowell
Tony Blair and Theresa May lead praise for Labour minister key to London Olympics
Doping in sport: too good to be true
A British parliamentary report has taken aim at some of the country’s most successful athletes
Coe accused of misleading Russian doping inquiry
Report says IAAF had ‘apparent desire to suppress revelations about doping in sport’
Athletics Review 2017: Shocks galore under a cloud of doping questions
Mo Farah and Usain Bolt bid farewell, but not in the manner most had expected them to
Justin Gatlin denies doping after allegations against his entourage
‘I was shocked to learn that my coach would have anything to do with these accusations’
Sonia O’Sullivan: Set the record straight
It’s impossible to know how many athletes were denied medals and titles by Chinese athletes involved in doping practices
Athletics isn’t staying relevant, it’s chasing relevance
Perhaps a doping amnesty and a fresh start is required to allow the sport regain its soul
Gatlin’s 100m medal ceremony brought forward to avoid booing
Ceremony moved from 8pm to 6.50pm before the evening programme begins
Irish Sportswomen: Top 50 Memorable Moments Part Four - 20 to 11
In part four of five, Mary Hannigan continues her look at highlights in Irish women’s sport
Cheated athletes to finally receive medals at World Championships
Jessic Ennis-Hill among those who will be given full ceremony at next month’s games
IAAF’s Nick Davies banned after cash payment cover-up
Athletics body’s former chief of staff admits taking payments to cover up Russian doping
Coe defies House of Commons over corruption scandal
IAAF president believes he has nothing further to add on Russian doping allegations
Sebastian Coe faces new questions about corruption
Dave Bedford’s answers in parliament today look to be opposite of what Coe answered
The world of sport reacts to Russian doping revelations
‘Ministry of Sports denies government programmes exist to support doping in sport’
David Rudisha retains Olympic 800m title in Rio
Fellow Kenyan Alfred Kipketer took an early lead but paid the price as the race wore on
CAS upholds Rio Olympics ban on 68 Russian athletes
Russia are now on the brink of an outright ban from next month’s games in Brazil
IOC upholds and ‘fully respects’ IAAF’s Russian Olympic ban
Russian Olympic chief Aleksander Zhukov said clean Russian athletes would appeal
International Olympic Committee backs IAAF over Russian doping
‘This is in line with the IOC’s long-held zero-tolerance policy’
Russian athletes banned from Rio Olympics
IAAF votes to extend sanctions against Russia over continued use of illegal doping
WADA claim Russia obstructing testers as report looms
Revelations two days before IAAF decide whether to readmit Russia in time for Rio
Sebastian Coe knows banning Russia is right thing to do but is he compromised?
On Friday he will chair an IAAF meeting on whether to maintain Russia’s exclusion
Five countries in danger of joining Russia on IAAF blacklist
Ethiopia, Morocco, Kenya, Ukraine and Belarus all given stern orders to improve
Sebastian Coe says Kenya could be banned from Rio Olympics
Country missed a deadline to prove to WADA it was doing enough to combat doping
Sporting politics likely to ensure Russians will roll up in Rio
IAAF task force may recommend ban but Seb Coe’s instinct will be towards compromise
Doha’s bids for world athletics championships under investigation
Both 2017 and 2019 bids subject to IAAF ethics commission admits UK Athletics chief
Does Sebastian Coe care or is he merely in love with own loftiness?
IAAF chief might have got job he wanted but he’s lost all prestige and popularity
Wada report registers qualified vote of confidence in Coe
Council, including Coe, could not have been unaware of extent of doping, report finds
WADA report to say corruption was embedded in IAAF
Details of investigation into Russian doping have been leaked to Associated Press
Paula Radcliffe hits out at proposal to reset world records
Radcliffe: ‘I feel innocent athletes have suffered enough at the hands of drugs cheats’
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