Track athletes lash out at proposal to wipe record books clean IAAF President Sebastian Coe looks on during a Feb. 6 news conference in Monaco. (Valery Hache / AFP/Getty Images) ...

In a “revolutionary” new proposal, European Athletics has recommended that all track and field world and European records set before 2005 should be removed from the record books. It would mean ...

But such has been the outcry among several former athletes, including Radcliffe, Britain's world marathon record holder who called the proposals "cowardly", that more consultation is taking place.

Olympic champions including Florence Griffith-Joyner, Michael Johnson, Hicham El Guerrouj and Jonathan Edwards will fall off the world record list on to an 'all-time list' if the proposals are ...