Kenenisa Bekele News

FEW things are harder - or more time-wastingly fun - than comparing great athletes from different sports.

22, 2009, in Monaco. Michael Steele/Getty Images 2 of 3 Sanya Richards celebrates after winning the women's 40-meter race at the Zurich IAAF Golden League athletics meeting on Aug.

American Tyson Gay, right, beat Jamaica's Usain Bolt at the 2007 world championships, but the Jamaican has taken sprinting to an unprecedented level since.

Runner's World magazine, the worldwide authority on running information, announced the recipients of its sixth annual "Heroes of Running" - an editorial and online package highlighting six inspirational individuals who use running to improve the lives of others, redefine the limits of human potential and literally make the world a better place.

The 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin proved how great a spectacle athletics can be and also highlighted how charismatic athletes can transcend our sport.

Is Sanya Richards the Female Athlete of the Year? Yesterday we told you about the five male contenders for top year-end IAAF honors.

LESS than two months after wrapping up his successful 2009 season, in which he won three gold medals at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt returned to training yesterday at the UWI Bowl in Kingston.

High achievements: Hooker produced an injury-defying performance to take out the world championship in Berlin in August.

World and Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele have been named among five contenders shortlisted for the male Athlete of the Year award on Monday.

During the closing mile of last Sunday's New York City Marathon, winner Meb Keflezighi twice pointed to the "USA" that he proudly wore across his race singlet.

Could Sammy Wanjiru Run a 2:02:55 Marathon in Chicago? According to our pal and "Race Results Weekly" colleague David Monti, who is on loan to Universal Sports for a handicapping article, Wanjiru's half-marathon best of 58:33 is, by some formulas, indeed equivalent to 2:02:55. There are other variables, naturally - the competition, the weather, and ...

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser celebrates after beating compatriot Kerron Stewart, left, and debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas in the women's 100-metres final of the World Championships in Athletics at Berlin's olympic Stadium on Monday.

's international correspondent Professor Sean Hartnett sat down with Sammy Kamau Wanjiru in his Tower Hotel suite overlooking the Thames River the day after the 22 year old Kenyan claimed his first London Marathon title in a course record 2:05:10. While other Kenyan marathoners have run faster and won more titles, Wanjiru has already earned an ...

It has been a long time, but this week I finally put on my running shoes and stepped outside to drink in cool, almost crisp air.

At a gala dinner party held at the national palace to honour world athletics championship heroes, double champion Kenenisa Bekele received a special award for his unprecedented achievements.

The Ethiopian national athletics squad at the Thessaloniki, Greece IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Championship has returned home after a triumphant performance and quick revenge over arch rival Kenya.

Dobriskey, Rowbury, Lagat, Lomong, Tegenkamp, and Wurth-Thomas Will Run Fifth Avenue Mile Why, it's just like a mini-Grand Prix track meet transplanted to 20 blocks of expensive real estate in New York.

The short run through a cheering crowd yesterday, however, certainly won't diminish Bolt's status as the top sprinter in the world or dampen expectations for another victory at this weekend's World Athletics Final.

Meseret Defar took her ninth overall World Athletics Final title as the traditional season-capping two-day meet ended its run after it's seventh edition in this sprawling northern Mediterranean city.

Former Vancouver Canucks captain Trevor Linden has been asked to run a leg during the Olympic torch relay.