Russia's chances of sending an athletics team to the Rio Olympics appeared to recede on Sunday after a new documentary alleged further doping improprieties.

Sebastian Coe has vowed the IAAF will not accept a decision by food giant Nestle to abruptly terminate its sponsorship deal with world athletics’ governing body.

The IAAF has suffered a new blow after Nestle announced it has terminated its sponsorship of the world athletics’ governing body.

Organisers of the 2017 World Championships in London are in talks with athletics’ world governing body about dropping ‘IAAF’ from the event’s branding.

The doping scandal which has rocked the sport has led to the IAAF being regarded by the public as a “toxic” brand, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.

Sebastian Coe has received crucial backing to remain as IAAF president despite another damning report on athletics’ doping scandal and admitting that he leads a “failed organisation”.

The IAAF has denied any suggestion it looked to cover up Russian doping cases in the run-up to the London Olympics.

IAAF president Seb Coe is in favour of erasing world records in international athletics set by suspected drugs cheats, according to UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner.

"Clean athletes and sports fans the world over have been let down. Trust in the sport is at its lowest point for decades."

“What has become apparent today is that I have become the story.”

Nick Davies denied implementing a media strategy to interfere with the IAAF's anti-doping procedure.

The IAAF has been accused of trying to “muddy the waters” in the ongoing doping scandal by one of the experts at the centre of the case.

IAAF president Sebastian Coe has quit his role as an ambassador for Nike.

Russia has been provisionally suspended from all international athletics competitions by the IAAF.

Russia will learn its fate later today when the ruling council of athletics’ world governing body meets to decide on action on the doping scandal.

Sebastian Coe has insisted he will not fail in his task to clean up athletics as pressure mounts for Russia to be suspended from international competition over its doping scandal.

The International Olympic Committee threatened punishments for those proven to have violated doping rules and it seems heads have started to roll.

The head of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory has resigned, hours after it was stripped of its right to test samples.

“Wouldn’t you say, Seb it’s time to hang up your gloves?”

The report by WADA’s independent commission examined allegations of widespread doping among Russian athletes and cover-ups of that activity.

Sebastian Coe admits these are “dark days” for athletics but has stressed his determination to lead the sport down the “long road to redemption”.

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack has been questioned by French police investigating allegations of corruption involving a cover-up of doping by Russian athletes.

Sebastian Coe is to be called to the British Parliament to be grilled about his claim that media investigations into widespread doping in athletics were a “declaration of war” on the sport.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has sought to take the sting out of upcoming doping claims by revealing and denying allegations due to be published this weekend.

Coe v Ovett. Unless you were hung up on some British class divide thing, or had a bit of a Brideshead Revisited phobia, you had to be a Coe man, didn’t you?

Sonia O’Sullivan narrowly missed out being elected to the IAAF Council on the day Sebastian Coe was elected the new president of the international athletics governing body.

Sebastian Coe, the former London 2012 chairman, has been elected as the new president of the International Association of Athletics Federations.

It's emerged that the IAAF is to abandon its policy of drug-testing every athlete.

Allegations that the International Association of Athletics Federations blocked the publication of a study showing widespread doping among athletes at the 2011 World Championships have been denied by the world governing body.

Chris Froome’s claims that athletics should follow cycling’s lead and invest more heavily in anti-doping have been criticised by track and field’s global governing body.

“Does the IAAF pursue its anti-doping mandate with the same single-minded, all-consuming dedication that athletes adopt in their pursuit of winning? Based on what I saw in the leaked database, my view is ’No’.”

Twenty-eight athletes have been suspended over historic doping offences, the International Association of Athletics Federations announced last night.

Allegations international athletics body the IAAF turned a blind eye to suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes have been strenuously denied by the organisation.

"The published allegations were sensationalist and confusing: the results referred to were not positive tests."

The outgoing president of international athletics has defended the organisation’s record on drug-testing and called the latest dopingallegations “a joke”.