Olympic shot put silver medallist Raven Saunders has accepted a 30-month suspension for whereabouts failures, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Tuesday.

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Gabby Thomas will not feature at this month’s World Athletics Championships in Japan.

Champion Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will hang up her spikes after next month’s world championships in Tokyo having redefined what is possible for women in sport.

Olympic decathlon champion Markus Rooth will miss the upcoming World Championships due to an injury, he said on Monday.

Over 60 athletes, coaches, and technical officials will be part of an Athletics Fiji Challenging Horizons workshop in Suva tomorrow.

Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson will not run in the 100 metres at the Lausanne Diamond League on Wednesday, with media reports citing shin discomfort as the reason for the Jamaican’s absence.

Kishane Thompson laid down a marker ahead of next month’s world championships when the Jamaican came out on top in the highly-anticipated 100 metres against Olympic champion Noah Lyles at the Silesia Diamond League meeting on Saturday.

Female Canadian athletes have been told that the new gene tests they recently underwent do not comply with World Athletics’ requirements, leaving them scrambling to complete new tests before the September 1 deadline for the world championships.

Pacific Games middle- and long-distance champion, Yeshnil Karan, has been selected to represent Fiji at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan next month.

Hurdles queen Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone stormed to victory in the 400 metres at the U.S. track and field trials on Saturday to book her spot at the World Athletics Championships, narrowly missing the American record in her weaker event.

Olympic and world champion Noah Lyles breezed through his 100 metres heat in 10.05 at the USA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Thursday before pulling out of the semi-finals to focus on the 200.