March 8 - Six athletes, four from Belarus and two from Russia, face doping sanctions after samples given at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki were re-tested as part of the International ...

Disciplinary action against a further 28 athletes has commenced following the retesting of samples taken at the 2005 and 2007 IAAF World Championships Reanalysis of samples taken at the Helsinki 2005 ...

Helsinki were today revealed as the hosts for the 2005 World Athletics Championships. IAAF president Lamine Diack made the announcement at the world governing body's council meeting in Nairobi. The ...

Every morning of the World Athletics championships Angus Torode spends a small fortune on pan-European telecommunication to give us his "view from the inside", with interviews, reaction and gossip ...

Lagos — Nigerian athletes continue their unimpressive runs at the on going World Athletics Championship in Helsinki, Finland as the country's female sprinter, Endurance Ojokolo finished last position ...

Helsinki, Finland - With finals in the men?s 100m and Discus Throw and women?s Heptathlon, Triple Jump and 20km Race Walk scheduled for Sunday (7 Aug), strength, speed and spring will be on vivid ...

Mention Helsinki to a world traveler and the most likely retort is that it resembles somewhere else: Russia’s famed St. Petersburg, maybe. Or a place from some other time—a throwback to the 1950s. It ...

Mike Rowbottom, one of Britain's most talented sportswriters, covered the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics as chief feature writer for insidethegames, having covered the previous five ...

Helsinki will host the 2005 World Athletics Championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced today. It is the second time the Finnish capital will host the event ...