The Latest Breaking News from Lord Coe

Hodgkinson has tasted just one defeat over 800m so far in 2023, while Hughes broke 30-year-old British 100m and 200m records in the space of a month.

“It was a victory few had expected,” said Janice Turner in The Times. When Lord Coe, the president of World Athletics, unveiled the organisation’s response to the issue of transgender women taking part in elite female events, it seemed likely that it would be a mere tweak to current rules…

The organisation also confirmed Russian and Belarusian athletes remain banned for the foreseeable future.

World Athletics president Lord Coe has announced Russian Athletes have been banned due to the war with Ukraine, while transgender female athletes who have gone through male puberty have also been banned

Transgender athletes have been banned from female sports, the World Athletics Council today announced.

The governing body will exclude male-to-female transgender athletes if they have gone through male puberty from female competition from the end of this month

The IOC is looking at ways Russian and Belarusian athletes can be reintegrated to international competition

Coe has been World Athletics president since 2015

The 20-year-old will be eyeing a world title in the summer

Mounting outgoings of £19.6million have contributed to the post-tax losses

Shericka Jackson’s 21.45 seconds in the 200m made her the fastest woman alive and it is bettered only by Florence Griffiths-Joyner’s 21.34 from 1988.