MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s officially neutral track and field team swelled in size as the IAAF approved 21 more athletes on Thursday to compete internationally — but Russia says it’s too late for ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The longtime standoff between Olympic champion Caster Semenya and track and field’s governing body over issues of gender, hormones and performance in sports reached a pivotal phase on Monday as a key tribunal began hosting a planned five-day hearing in a case that ...

GENEVA (AP) — Caster Semenya’s running future will be decided by three judges starting next week in a landmark case that will challenge science and gender politics.

The two-time Olympic 800-meter champion from South Africa is looking to overturn eligibility rules for hyperandrogenic ...

GENEVA (AP) — Evidence that Russia ran a state-backed doping scheme for several years has been used to prove new cases of cheating by track and field Olympic and world champions.

Ivan Ukhov, the 2012 Olympic high jump champion was among 12 Russian track and field athletes found guilty ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi state trooper has been indicted on a manslaughter charge in connection with a 2017 crash that killed a former track and field athlete at Mississippi State University.

Local news outlets report Oktibbeha County grand jurors indicted officer Kyle Lee on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Running great Kip Keino handed himself over to police in Kenya on Thursday and is under arrest, set to face charges of corruption and abuse of office that threaten the reputation of one of track and field’s most revered figures.

The 78-year-old Keino, former Kenyan ...

As the A-League begins its 14th season, the biggest question in Australia seems to be: Will he or won’t he?

“He” is the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, who retired from track and field competition last year with eight Olympic sprint gold medals and world records in the 100- and ...

MONACO (AP) — The governing body of track and field will not apply rules to limit natural testosterone levels in female runners until the Court of Arbitration for Sport concludes an appeal case brought by Olympic champion Caster Semenya.

The IAAF said Tuesday it agreed to postpone the ...

Kenyan athletes are the target of nearly a quarter of out-of-competition doping tests in track and field, a statistic that underlines how much suspicion there is over the world’s most successful distance-running nation.

Figures were revealed Thursday by the head of the Athletics Integrity ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Should Russia be reinstated without publicly admitting wrongdoing for its state-sponsored doping scheme?

That question has caused ferocious infighting at the World Anti-Doping Agency, the watchdog body tasked with stopping any repeat of the widespread drug use and cover-ups ...

Two senior Kenyan track and field officials were found not guilty by an IAAF ethics panel of extorting money from athletes in return for reducing doping bans or covering up positive tests despite there being some “credible evidence.”

Former IAAF Council member David Okeyo, who was banned ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Paul Koech, a former world half marathon champion and long-time teammate of Kenyan great Paul Tergat, has died. He was 49.

The Kenyan track and field federation said Wednesday that Koech died Monday after a short illness. The federation did not release any more ...

MONACO (AP) — American long jumper Jarrion Lawson, who won silver at last year’s world championships, has been suspended after failing a doping test.

The Athletics Integrity Unit, which handles doping issues in track and field, says Lawson tested positive for a metabolite of the banned ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Almost unthinkable to some a decade ago, sprinters from China and Japan are running sub-10 seconds for the 100 meters.

There’s plenty more to come from Asia, too, according to international athletics federation president Sebastian Coe.

With billions of ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The combined Koreas women’s basketball team reached the Asian Games final, giving one of the sentimental favorites a chance at a historic gold medal.

A favorite in another sport won’t get the chance at gold, though, after defending field hockey champion India was ...

IAAF Council member David Okeyo of Kenya was banned from track and field for life Thursday for his role in diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars of sponsorship money from Nike for his and others’ personal use.

It was another case pointing to deep-rooted graft in the sport in Kenya, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Some Asian Games crowds have been sparse, particularly at track and field where fewer than 5,000 fans at evening finals have been packed into a cordoned off section along the main straightaway at the 76,000-seat national stadium.

Organizers have closed off about ...

Kenya’s first WADA-approved drug-testing laboratory will be operational early next month, anti-doping authorities said Monday as they aim to close a loophole that some fear had allowed athletes from the East African distance-running powerhouse to beat controls for years.

The lab in the ...

The 800 meters world championships bronze medalist Kipyegon Bett faces a four-year ban after the Kenyan runner tested positive for the blood-booster EPO, having already been suspended and charged with evading a doping check.

The failed test was announced by the Athletics Integrity Unit, ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Earlier this month, the Milwaukee Mustang Track Club went down to Iowa to compete in the AAU Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships. The team won 13 medals, the most medals brought home by the Mustangs since the club’s inception in 2002.

Head Coach Ray Hale founded ...

BERLIN (AP) — German heptathletes Louisa Grauvogel and Mareike Arndt pulled out of their last event at the European Athletics Championships after being involved in a car crash on Friday.

The president of the organizing committee, Clemens Prokop, says both women were taken to a Berlin ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Usain Bolt is quickly closing in on a professional soccer career.

The Jamaican great has negotiated an “indefinite training period” with Central Coast Mariners in Australia’s A-League.

The eight-time Olympic gold medalist and the 100- and 200-meter world record holder ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Russia could be provisionally reinstated to worldwide track and field competition in December if it meets certain conditions, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said Friday.

Track and field’s governing body suspended Russia in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Some of Russia’s best known track and field athletes are facing doping cases, including former Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov.

The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees anti-doping cases in track and field, released details on Friday of 109 cases from around the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a Florida man accused of intentionally running over and killing a cyclist out for a family bike ride said Monday that their son has struggled for years with profound mental illness.

Tampa Police said Mikese Morse, a 30-year-old former Olympic track and ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a hit-and-run crash that killed a Florida father on bike ride with his young sons (all times local):

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The parents of a man arrested in Florida for allegedly hitting and killing a man on a bicycle say their son is a talented athlete who ...