Lisa Dobriskey News

Phillips Idowu and Jessica Ennis crowned a glorious year for the Aviva GB & NI athletics team when they were voted, respectively, the Male and Female Athlete of the Year at the British Athletics' Writers Association annual awards dinner in London on Saturday evening.

With the Olympics fast approaching, the head of UK Athletics, Charles van Commenee, talks to Simon Turnbull about his demanding medal targets for 2012 and why he thinks the team may even exceed his lofty expectations GETTY IMAGES Charles van Commenee believes Britain will achieve his target of eight track and field medals at London 2012 enlarge The ...

British Olympians Dame Kelly Holmes, left, and Lord Sebastian Coe, right, pose with photographer Brian Griffin, center, as his photographic exhibition is unveiled during a launch to mark 1000 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympics at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Friday Oct.

Brian Griffin's portrait of Olympic gold medallists Denise Lewis and Jonathan Edwards.

London's new Olympic stadium could stage future NFL games in the city. Wembley's four-year contract to stage an annual international series match comes to an end next year.

Ashford's Lisa Dobriskey has admitted her World Championship high came in a year that also included her lowest moment as an athlete.

Britain's Jenny Meadows has been promoted to the top tier of the lottery funding programme following her 800m bronze at the World Championships.

GATESHEAD hurdler Niall Flannery has vowed not to disappear into the background at Loughborough University after making the full-time switch to the prestigious sports development centre to train and study.

Shannon Rowbury and Andy Baddeley Triumph at Fifth Avenue Mile For most of the international cast of elite milers, this 20-block scamper in New York was a capper to a long 2009 track season, and both the men's and women's races were excruciatingly tight; a lengthy examination of a finish photo was required to sort out second through fourth places ...

LONDON a ' Imagine the possible scenarios in 2016. Olympic athletes strolling to competition venues along Chicago's lakefront.

Shannon Rowbury of the United States has won the women's Fifth Avenue Mile and Andy Baddeley of Britain took the men's event.

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The Olympic 400 metres champion, Christine Ohuruogu, is hoping to end an "indifferent" season by captaining England to victory at the Great North City Games today.

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.

England were 10-1 winners in the inaugural athletics Ashes against Australia in Newcastle and Gateshead.

A month after Freddie Flintoff and Co got their hands on the Ashes urn on the cricket field, the battle between England and Australia moves to the streets of Newcastle and Gateshead this Saturday, on the eve of the Great North Run.

BBC Online Kate Dennison has broken the British pole vault record for the seventh time this year at the Pedros Cup in Poland.

Usain Bolt believes the crowd can dictate how fast he runs in his closing race of the season at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Thessalonika.

The rising global stature of British athletes will see the biggest ever number of them chasing top prize money at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Thessalonika this weekend.

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