The Latest Breaking News from Lord Coe

The World Athletics president also admitted climate change could force some endurance events to be moved.

Coe praised the resilience of athletes he met at the country’s national championships, which also served as trials for this summer’s Paris Olympics.

The inaugural Ultimate Championship is set to take place in Budapest in September 2026.

The 67-year-old is concerned over sky-high costs to watch athletics at next summer’s Games.

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