“The process now is for a full technical, financial and risk evaluation to be undertaken with the results presented to the Council in December. At that stage a final decision will be made,” the IAAF was cited as saying by Hungarian news agency MTI.

The IAAF World Championships, a biennial competition, was hosted by London in 2017. It will take place in Doha, Qatar, next year, and in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States, in 2021.