Jakob Ingebrigtsen heads to the Paris Olympics as the favorite for both the 1500m and 5000m. Confidently describing the Summer Games as a "walk in the park," Ingebrigtsen aims to defend his 1500m title from Tokyo and seek a 5000m double, where he is a two-time world champion.

Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs capped another great day for the home team in Rome's Stadio Olimpico as he beat fellow Italian Chituru Ali in the 100m. Leonardo Fabbri and Lorenzo Simonelli also struck gold for the hosts as Sandra Elkasevic won a record seventh women's discus title.

Olympic champions Gianmarco Tamberi and Marcell Jacobs are among Italy's big hopes at Rome's Stadio Olimpico as the European Athletics Championships get underway, with both men believing the hosts can finish top of the medal table.

At the Oslo Diamond League, Norwegian track stars Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karsten Warholm showcased their brilliance. Now, they assert their full focus will shift to the upcoming European Championships and the Paris Games.

Norwegian police announced on Monday that Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father and former coach of 1,500m Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, faces charges of domestic violence against a family member.

Norwegian star Karsten Warholm got his first taste of victory at the age of seven when he won a medal in jeans at a local road race in the picturesque town of Ulsteinvik in the heart of Norway.

Antoine Le Hyaric, Amandine Aftalion and Brian Hanley are scientists who, according to their published study, are developing a mathematical model that promises to optimise 400m and 1,500m running performance using high-resolution data.

Femke Bol of the Netherlands and Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen received awards as European Athletes of the Year at the annual Golden Tracks award ceremony in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Norwegian brothers Henrik, Filip and Jakob Ingebrigtsen have claimed the split that became apparent last year with their father, Gjert, who had coached them all to world-class running success, was in reaction to "physical violence and threats".

Earlier this month in Brussels I chatted briefly with the Diamond League chief executive Petr Stastny, who opined that this season’s edition might well be the best since the event began in 2010.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen rounded off the opening night of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene by winning the Bowerman Mile in 3min 43.73sec, the third fastest time ever run and just 0.60sec shy of Hicham El Guerrouj's 1999 world record.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, running here in a revamped stadium with a super-fast new track, marked the occasion of the penultimate Diamond League meeting of the season by setting a world record in the men’s 2,000 metres.

All races at the World Athletics Championships are equal - but some are more equal than others. Ask Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Ask Femke Bol.

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen was again upstaged by a British athlete in the men's 1500 metres final at the World Athletics Championships as Josh Kerr claimed a stunning victory on another thrilling night here.

Olympic 1,500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen edged himself a little closer to Hicham El Guerrouj’s 25-year-old world record of 3min 26.00sec at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia as he improved his own European record to 3:27.14.