There seems to be a love of changing names and continual reorganisation within the Athletics world. Whist this may make some sense to those close to it, it just serves to add general confusion for runners/athletes, clubs and race organisers. Currently UK Athletics is at the top of the tree for Athletics and Running. UK Athletics is the successor organisation to BAF, British Athletics Federation, AAA, and Amateur Athletics Federation. The names of these earlier organisation are often used in place UK:A/ UK: Athletics due to failure to update documentation, sentiment, or a feeling that ‘the name will be changed again anyway, so what’s the point of updating it.’
