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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.

Dathan Ritzenhein Is in 'Rocky 4 Mode' Training for World Half-Marathon The World Half Marathon Championships are in Birmingham, England, on October 11 and "going into Rocky 4 mode" is how Ritzenhein describes the period close to a big race when "I want to isolate myself off like when Rocky goes to Siberia to train." This time, he says, is more ...

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.

LONDON: Former Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Ejagayehu Dibaba will have to sit out Sunday's 10km Great Yorkshire Run after she was unable to obtain a visa to enter the United Kingdom, media reports said yesterday.

BERLIN: Jamaica's Usain Bolt dominated the World Athletics Championships here in the same way he did the Beijing Olympics, winning triple gold and shattering the world records for the 100m and 200m.

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won his first men's 5,000 meters world title to complete a golden double at the 12th World Championships on Sunday.

Alfred Kirwa displayed the grit and fighting spirit he is famed for to bag the final silver for Kenya as the World Athletics Championships ended in Germany.

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won his first men's 5,000 meters world title to complete a golden double at the 12th World Championships on Sunday.

Usain Bolt won his third gold medal but failed to break a third world record when Jamaica stormed to the men's 4x100 meters relay title at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Saturday.

Dayron Robles clears a hurdle during his heat Tuesday. An injury may prevent Olympic champion Dayron Robles of Cuba from competing in the semifinals of the men's 110-metre hurdles at the world track and field championships in Berlin.

It is the age of Usain Bolt in track and field, as Bolt reminds us by showing off before and after he blows away world records and fields of fast, muscular men.

THE sprinting cast played their parts to perfection yesterday as Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay took centre stage, backed up by a comedy cameo from Asafa Powell and Dwain Chambers as villain.

BERLIN: Kenya's Linet Masai ended Ethiopia's 10-year domination of the women's World 10,000 metres title when Meselech Melkamu celebrated too early and was caught on the line in a thrilling final on Saturday.

The World Championships 100 metres cast played their parts to perfection on Saturday as Usain Bolt [ Images ] and Tyson Gay [ Images ] took centre stage, backed up by a comedy cameo from Asafa Powell [ Images ] and Dwain Chambers as villain.

By RAF CASERT Smiling and joking, Usain Bolt cruised into the semifinals of the 100 meters of the world championships.Sprinting in earnest to test his groin, Tyson Gay did the same, setting up the prospect of a showdown in Sunday's final.Bolt, the three-time Olympic champion from Jamaica, and Gay, the three-time world champion from the United ...

Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland needed just one attempt to make the shot put final as the 12th world athletics championships got underway on Saturday.

Ethiopia's Olympic and world 10,000-meter champion Tirunesh Dibaba has pulled out of Saturday's event at the world championships because of injury.

BERLIN: Reigning Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba faces a potential double test against bitter rival and compatriot Meseret Defar at the World Athletics Championships which begins on Saturday.

Ethiopia's Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba and her husband Sileshi Sihine could miss the upcoming world athletics championships in Berlin starting this weekend.

Across the plaza, rigorous practice routines are well underway under a giant screen where track greats Kenenisa Bekele's and Tirunesh Dibaba's famous double wins at the Beijing Olympics were relayed live to thousands of ecstatic fans.