Boston was selected on Thursday as the American candidate city that will bid to host the 2024 Olympics, taking the first strides in a gruelling marathon to bring the Summer Games back to the United States.

Days after the world of athletics was hit by serious doping allegations, the sport has been accused of covering up how it dealt with scores of suspicious blood samples.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) boss Thomas Bach has insisted there must be no clash between the Winter Games and the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

Ajith Kumara Karunathilaka of Sri Lanka Electrical Mechanical Engineers improved the decathlon Sri Lanka record for the second time within a month when he aggregated 6,477 points on the second day of the SL Army Inter Regiment Athletics Championship at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Tuesday.

France's Renaud Lavillenie and New Zealand's Valerie Adams were named the male and female World Athletes of the Year for 2014.

The IAAF is delighted to announce the names of the 12 athletes who will compose this year’s induction into the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Sri Lanka Navy hosted the 8th edition of the country’s premier defence sporting event, the Defence Services Games (DSG) which ended on November 5 at the Sugathadasa Stadium, under the direction of the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jayantha Perera, who is the President of the Defence Services Sports Board.

The Junior John Tarbet athletics championships which commenced on the 2nd of November 2014 concluded yesterday with ten new records established by the junior athletes

The Air Force sprinter Chandrika Subashini and Army’s long jumper Sampath Dissanayake topped the day’s best performances in the women’s and men’s categories respectively, while sailor Hasith Nirmal established a new meet record in the men’s 110 metres on day two of the Defence Services Athletics Championships at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Tuesday.