the world athletics championships begin in doha later this month, and the president of the iaaf, sebastian coe, has today told the bbc he stands by the decision to host the event there. we cannot base sporting relationships on those temporary arrangements. sport is a permanent feature. of our society. and we have to protect it. that's not to say that we are not... we are oblivious to the fact that we will be taking oui’ to the fact that we will be taking our offence into places and challenge, we will take them sometimes climatically and that has unleashed a whole generation of sporting technology to combat the challenges. but bear in mind, we do wa nt to ta ke challenges. but bear in mind, we do want to take the sport globally and we can't just sit there want to take the sport globally and we can'tjust sit there going back to the same nine, ten same cities if we are to the same nine, ten same cities if we a re really to the same nine, ten same cities if we are really true to our word about wanting to expand the global footprint of athletics, and i am very keen to do that. onto golf now.

speaking to the bbc, iaaf president lord coe says he would like her to return to athletics but within the regulations. we have not set those regulations to exclude people. they are there to allow us to maintain the presence of those athletes with that condition at international level stop what you would like to see her back in the 800 metres or the 5000 metres? within the regulations, of course. the anti—discriminatory organisation kick it out has called on the football association to act after they confirmed they were investigating a tweet sent by manchester city‘s bernardo silva. silva has since deleted the tweet, which was sent to his city team—mate benjamin mendy, comparing him to the character on packets of sweets available in spain and portugal. kick it out said, "racist stereotypes are never acceptable as "banter", and we‘re shocked that someone who is a role model to millions has failed to understand the discriminatory nature of his post." let‘s have a look at some of the other stories making today‘s sports news. britain‘s dan evans is through to the last 16 of t