Athletics
Semenya back in Berlin after 'really hard year'
Caster Semenya is relishing the prospect of returning to Berlin's Olympic Stadium after "11 really hard months" in which she was left out in the cold after doubts about her gender.
Inside Athletics
Oliver prepared for the 'one-day Olympics'
Thursday, 19 August 2010
The inaugural Diamond League series will crown 16 champions tonight, giving the season-long winners in each event the right to be called the No 1 in the world.
Britain's best handed Commonwealth choice
Monday, 16 August 2010
As Augustine Choge, the Commonwealth 5,000m champion from Kenya, charged down the finishing straight to win the Emsley Carr Mile at Crystal Palace on Saturday, the final hope of a home victory from one of the international events on the programme came to grief at the end of the two-day Aviva London Grand Prix.
Carolina Kluft: 'My body is done with heptathlon. I struggle to do one event now'
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Sweden's prancing queen reigned supreme before a sudden abdication. Now she's an athletics also-ran but claims she can win a medal in London in 2012 and says it will be perfect if Jessica Ennis breaks her record
Oliver's streak goes on but no dash from Brits
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Simon Turnbull: London GP proves a damp squib for the heroes of Barcelona but showcases the US hurdler on a roll
Champions! We're Britain's fastest news outfit
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Andrew Johnson: Not just first with the stories, but also, it appears, first round the bend
Jackson's turn of pace denies Greene perfect return home
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Britain's European 400m gold medallist has to settle for third place despite putting in a fighting finish
Usain who? Gay completes epic week with fastest 100m this year
Saturday, 14 August 2010
American sprinter clocks 9.78sec just days after first win over Bolt as Britain's big names disappoint
'Phenomenon' Oliver takes winning streak in his stride
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Usain Bolt might have finally suffered that Kryptonite moment in the home straight of the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm last week, crashing to earth in a 100m race for the first time in two years, but there is another Superman of the track constructing a force-field of invincibility around him.
Malcolm: a sprinter on the long route back to the top
Friday, 13 August 2010
Simon Turnbull: After his European 200m silver, Britain's forgotten fast man is hoping for 100m success at Crystal Palace
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