Olympic Athletics News

Former track icons Samson Vallabouy and wife Josephine Mary with their daughters Jocelyn and Shereen at the Darul Makmur Stadium in Kuantan yesterday.

Twice London marathon champion Mary Keitany will not compete this year because she is expecting her second child, a close friend of the Kenyan runner said on Wednesday.

Nikkita Holder and husband Justyn Warner are expecting their first child, the latest chapter in an Olympic-sized love story that began way back when the hurdler and sprinter were childhood friends.

He punctured the legend of Oscar Pistorius, long before Blade Runner was charged with murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Olympic silver medallist Caster Semenya was a surprise exclusion from the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee's Operation Excellence programme.

Hercules Wimbledon AC sprinter Dwayne Cowan made an impressive debut over 400m when he stormed to victory in a Southern Men's League match at Horsham on Saturday.

BayTrust and Sport Bay of Plenty are proud to announce the recipients of the BayTrust Scholarships.

Carl Pistorius, brother of Oscar Pistorius, accused of murder, stands inside the court for his culpable homicide case at the Magistrate Court in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa on Tuesday May 21, 2013.

Kenyan world 5,000 and 10,000 meters gold medalist Vivian Cheruiyot said on Tuesday she will not defend her titles at the Moscow world athletics championships in August.

Vivian Cheruiyot is not defending her world 5,000 and 10,000 meters gold medals in Moscow in August because she is expecting her first child, the Kenyan said in a statement.

Great run: Asif Rahman Jiyaudeen of Selangor rejoices after winning the boys' Under-15 1,500m event in the MSSM meet at the Darul Makmur Stadium in Kuantan Tuesday.

Brazil's former Olympic long jump champion Maurren Maggi has conceded her dream of competing at the Rio 2016 Games could be over after failing to qualify for this year's World Championships in Moscow.

Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary General Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani gives a speech before the awards are given out at the Sport Excellence Day ceremony at Katara yesterday.

Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Sir Keith Mills, the deputy chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, has unveiled the results of a three-year research project that he says proves billions could be saved by the Treasury if more money was invested in grassroots sport projects.

Eleven years after last representing his country, Shawn Forrest will be part of a record nine-strong Australian marathon contingent at the world athletics championships in Moscow from August 10-18. Australia's top finishers at the London Olympics, Michael Shelley and Lisa Weightman, will be non-starters in Moscow, focusing on the 2014 Commonwealth ... (more)

After returning from his doping wilderness for Olympic year, Chambers is preparing in the Alps for new challenges in 2013, he tells Matt Majendie Clouds circulate over the top of Mont Blanc, the sun occasionally peeking through and briefly revealing the vista of France's highest peak.

The Welsh 400m hurdler recorded a fastest times of 48.90 secs at Loughborough and the European champion has set his sights on the World Championships in Moscow Rhys Williams admits the desire to get one over his fellow London Olympic 400m hurdling compatriots spurred him on to a new personal best at the Loughborough Athletics International.

The team that will represent Am. Samoa in this year's Oceania Championships for Track and Field this coming June 4-7 in Papeete, Tahiti are: Faresa Kapisi, Isei Johnson Tuiletufuga, Coach Valusia Talataina, Sauniatu West and Frederick Charles Uhrle.

Nonethe-less, he has still managed to make slow but steady progress. He closed last season well with a 9.97-second clocking in Brussels in September.

Her Excellency Aloun Assamba with Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen , Earl Jarrett of the Jamaica National Building Society, join Zena Wooldridge , director of sport at University of Birmingham; Councillor Mike Whitby; Professor Edward Peck, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Gaynor Whitby.