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latest: Golden double for awesome Bolt
In a run no less sensational than his world record performance in the 100m final last Saturday, the 21-year-old destroyed the field to clinch his first major title in his specialist event....
latest: Mottram and Birmingham miss 5,000m final
Australia's Craig Mottram has failed to make the final of the men's 5000 metres at the Beijing Olympics.....
latest: Men's 800m - Round 1
With just the first two in each heat automatically moving on to tomorrow’s semi-finals, the first round of the men’s 800m featured eight scrappy contests. And looking the best, for the moment, was defending champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy.....
latest: Women's 400m Hurdles - FINAL
In a night stamped by Usain Bolt’s unbelievable 19.30 200m World record, there would be more Jamaican celebration as 25-year-old Melaine Walker sped to an Olympic record 52.64 to win the country’s second Olympic title in the women’s 400m Hurdles.....
latest: Renshaw bows out of men's 800m
Australian Lachlan Renshaw has failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the men's 800 metres at the Olympics, finishing sixth in heat one in a time of 1 minute, 49.19 seconds.....
latest: Women's 200m - Semi-Finals
This was always expected to be a two way battle between the defending champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica and World champion Allyson Felix of the USA and the semi-finals have confirmed this belief...
latest: Willis wins 1500m bronze
This was no ordinary bronze medal. This was a skinny white kid from the Lower Hutt showing he can mix it with the Africans....
latest: Heptathlon silver medallist Blonska fails drugs test - IOC
Ukraine's Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Liudmyla Blonska has failed a drugs test, the IOC confirmed to AFP on Wednesday...
latest: McLellan takes shock hurdles silver
Australia's Sally McLellan has won a surprise silver medal in the women's 100 metres hurdles at the Beijing Olympics....
latest: Paula Radcliffe's display in the marathon puts her bravery beyond doubt
This was the second Olympic marathon that has not worked out for her. That is where all comparison ends, however. I'm not sure any of us, including Radcliffe, understood why she had to abandon the classic foot race in Athens. This time, the causes of her modest placing in Sunday's race are far clearer.....
latest: Ohuruogu wins 400 gold for Britain
Christine Ohuruogu surged to the women's Olympic 400 metres title on Tuesday and provided Britain with their first athletics gold medal of the Games...
latest: Bekele's Doubling Plans Are Confirmed
Today it was confirmed from Ethiopian camp that Kenenisa Bekele will try the double at 5000 m after his 10 000 m olympic record win. He can be the first to do so since 1980 by his countrymate Miruts Yifter who was the flagbearer for Ethiopia at the opening ceremony here in Beijing.....
latest: Women's 5000m - Round 1
It’s official: one of the fiercest rivalries in the sport will take centre stage when the guns sound the start of the women’s 5000m on Friday evening (22)....
latest: Men's 200m - Semi-finals
After cruising effortlessly through the first two rounds yesterday the 90,000 packed inside the Bird's Nest Stadium were hoping for some fireworks from the Olympic 100m champion....
latest: 60 seconds with Mo Farah
Eurosport-Yahoo huffed and puffed to catch up with Great Britain Olympic distance hope Mo Farah to wring as much out of him in 60 seconds as possible.....
19th Now only the best will do for Wroe
BOTH Joel Milburn and Sean Wroe ran personal bests in getting through yesterday's heats of the 400 metres and both said they would have to keep running at "PB" level to reach the final on Thursday night....
19th Kipruto wins men's steeplechase gold, Youcef Abdi gets 6th
Brimin Kipruto of Kenya has won the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold medal at the Olympics, Australia's Youcef Abdi finished sixth in a personal best time of 8:16.36....
19th Jelimo gives Kenya's women first ever Olympic athletics gold
eenage sensation Pamela Jelimo became the first Kenyan woman to win an Olympic track and field gold here on Monday when she claimed the 800 metres in a world junior record of 1minute 54.87seconds....
19th McLellan through to hurdles final
Australia's Sally McLellan has qualified for the final of the women's 100 metres hurdles at the Beijing Olympics...
18th Defending champ Liu withdraws
Liu Xiang's dream of defending his Olympic title on home soil was shattered when an injury forced him to hobble away from the track before his first-round 110 metres hurdles heat...
18th A closer look beyond Bolt and his 9.69
Comedian, nonconformist, diplomat, World record breaker - all in one night. The extraordinary Olympic performance of Usain Bolt here yesterday evening extended far beyond his stunning 9.69 in the men’s 100m....
18th Beijing 2008 – Day 4 PREVIEW
Another big day, with six finals but it is on the qualification round of one event that 1 billion Chinese will be concentrating, and that’s because of the presence of Liu Xiang...
18th Imperious Bekele defends 10,000m gold in style
Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia defended his 10,000m title medal at the Olympics on Sunday, producing a devastating burst of speed on the last lap to see off any pretenders....
18th No joy for Aussies in women's 3,000m steeplechase
Donna MacFarlane and Victoria Mitchell could not summon the times needed to progress past the heats of the women's 3,000-metres steeplechase at Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium on Friday evening.....
18th New golden girl McLellan steps out
Sally McLellan's moment of reckoning has arrived. The Queensland hurdler has become a pin-up girl, and had medal hopes pinned on her, at the Beijing Games..
18th Women's Steeplechase starts its Olympic history with a World record
Fans of the 3000m Steeplechase couldn’t have asked for a finer Olympic debut. With a dominating gun-to-tape performance, Gulnara Galkina-Samitova captured the event’s first Olympic gold medal with an 8:58.81 World record*, while smashing through the nine-minute barrier in the process..
18th Athletics wrap: Jamaica boss women's 100
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 100 metres as her nation dominated the podium.
17th Beijing 2008 - Radcliffe struggles as Romania take gold
Romania's Constantina Tomescu won the women's Olympic marathon with a dominant solo run from the halfway point....
Benita Johnson finishes 21st, Radcliffe finishes 23rd
17th Beijing 2008 - Athletics wrap day 2: Kwakye into semis
A round-up of all the action from the Bird's Nest as the second day of athletics action took place....
17th Beijing 2008 - Olympic champion fails drugs test
Greece's Fani Halkia, who was due to begin the defence of her Olympic title in the 400 metres hurdles on Sunday, has tested positive for drugs.....
17th Lightning Bolt scorches to record 100m win
Jamaica's Usain Bolt won the men's Olympic 100 metres in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record to win in 9.69 seconds...
17th Rivalry with Merritt pushes reigning 400 champ Wariner
First he uses his right hand to adjust the ubiquitous sunglasses into position on his face. Then he reaches to tuck the dangling gold chain into the front of his singlet before rising up in the starting blocks to wait for the sound of the gun....
16th Dibaba restores family pride
Any doubts that weather conditions in Beijing would prove uncomfortable for distance runners were swept away on the first evening of athletics in the Bird’s Nest national stadium....
16th Day 1 Medals To Cantwell & Flanagan
It was anything but easy for either athlete, but Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.) overcame incredible odds to take bronze in the greatest women's 10,000m in history, and Christian Cantwell (Columbia, Mo.) persevered to win his first career Olympic medal, a silver in the men's shot put, Friday evening at the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium...
16th Jeff Riseley's Olympic Games debut nightmare
SHATTERED Australian runner Jeff Riseley described as "horrendous" and his "worst nightmare" an Olympic debut that saw him limp from the track last in his 1500m heat and more than 100m behind the winner....
16th Lewis through to semis in Beijing
Tamsyn Lewis has qualified for the semi finals of the 800m at the Beijing Olympics during the first day of competition at the Birds Nest.....
16th Men's 100m Beijing 2008 - Trio rush into semi-finals
World record-holder Usain Bolt looked in ominous form as he swept into the Olympic 100 metres semi-finals along with fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell and American world champion Tyson Gay.....
16th Radcliffe: I'm feeling strong
Britain's Paula Radcliffe would have liked more time to prepare for Sunday's Beijing marathon after fracturing her leg and being bitten by a spider, but she is feeling strong and hungry for her first Olympic medal....
16th Bolt shoots out warning to 100m rivals with mocking run
amaica's 100 metres world record-holder Usain Bolt on Friday sent out a message of intent to his rivals for the Olympic crown with an effortless run of 9.92 seconds to qualify for the semi-finals.....
16th LIVE Event by Event reports - Beijing 2008
Beijing, China - 'LIVE' Event by Event reports covering the Athletics events of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008, will be available at the conclusion of each round of each event from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 August 2008...
15th Felix still haunted by Athens
Four years later Allyson Felix still watches the race she lost. "I got out so poorly," the American twice world 200 metres champion said as she recalled the 2004 Olympic final.....
15th Lagat cautiously optimistic as double ambitions begin
With the start of his quest to succeed Hicham El Guerrouj as the Olympic 1500 and 500m champion now just a day away, Bernard Lagat believes he is ready and indeed up for the daunting challenge....
15th Beijing 2008 - day 1 preview
Beijing - Finally, the real Olympics are beginning! Friday’s action includes finals in only two events – the men’s Shot Put and the women’s 10,000 metres. Jeff Riseley and Mitch Kealy are set to race in the 1500m heats today, as is Tamsyn lewis in the women's 800m heats...
15th Koech denied place on Kenyan team
Paul Kipsiele Koech, whose best time this year is seven seconds faster than anyone else, has failed to win a place in Kenya's dominant 3,000 metres steeplechase team for the Olympics...
15th Michael Johnson backs Usain Bolt to win sprint duel
Michael Johnson, still the 200 metres and 400 metres world record-holder after 12 and nine years respectively and the winner of three individual Olympic gold medals, predicted that Bolt would prevail..
15th Jackson on Liu Xiang - Robles will win
It hardly needs saying that Liu Xiang is under a bit of pressure. Of all the events at these Olympic Games none will define sporting success for the home nation more than the men’s 110m Hurdles final on Thursday night (21)...
15th Beijing 2008 - Dean pulls out of Olympics
Briton Hatti Dean has been withdrawn from the Beijing Olympics after failing to recover sufficiently from an ankle injury....
14th Simpson ready for assault on medals
Reigning Commonwealth 200m champion Sherone Simpson who celebrated her 24th birthday yesterday, is targeting three medals when the track and field competition begins here inside the Bird's Nest Stadium.....
14th A collection of cool stats for the women's marathon
A collection of stats looking at the women's marathon ...
14th Veronica Campbell won't run 100 metres at Olympic Games
Veronica Campbell will not run the 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics. The three athletes who will represent Jamaica are Kerron Stewart, Shelly-Ann Fraser and Sherone Simpson ...
13th Sally McLellan embracing pin-up girl status
Hurdler Sally McLellan says she's embracing the pressure of being the new pin-up girl of Australian athletics....
13th Horses for courses: Happy Valley to natural high for Buster
CRAIG MOTTRAM is chilled out and ready to go at his third Olympic Games. In the foyer of a hotel in Hong Kong, the distance-running star eased into a velvet lounge chair and said everything had gone to plan in the past six months....
13th Asafa's got the edge
Ever since Hasely Crawford and Don Quarrie won Olympic Games gold medals in 1976, no Caribbean male athlete has been to the top of the podium in the Olympics....
13th Radcliffe 'fresh' as Noguchi pulls out
Britain's Paula Radcliffe has said she is feeling fresh and healthy for the Beijing Olympic marathon....
13th Defending marathon champ Noguchi pulls out: official
Defending champion Mizuki Noguchi pulled out the Beijing Olympics women's marathon on Tuesday after failing to recover from injury, the Japanese Olympic delegation said.....
13th Healthy Gay foresees fast times
Now that Tyson Gay has pronounced himself fit, let the dual meet begin....
13th Let the Games Be Doped
Once upon a time, the lords of the Olympic Games believed that the only true champion was an amateur, a gentleman hobbyist untainted by commerce. Today they enforce a different ideal. The winners of the gold medals are supposed to be natural athletes, untainted by technology. After enough “scandals,” the amateur myth eventually died of its own absurdity....
13th Cragg on course for big-race double
Alistair Cragg will be fit enough to attempt a 1500 metres-5000 metres double at the Beijing Olympics, according to Ireland's athletics team manager Patsy McGonagle....
13th Jo Pavey ready to show blood and guts in Beijing
If you want to know about loneliness, masochism and near madness of the long-distance runner then talk to Jo Pavey about being bloody-minded with bloodied feet. Like Paula Radcliffe, her more celebrated colleague, the Devonian's successes have been tempered by sacrificing her health on the altar of heroic failure....
12th Engineering Greatness: Peter Coe
The recent death of Peter, aged 88, begins to close a chapter on a great era when British coaching, especially endurance coaching, was the envy of the world....
12th Radcliffe declares herself fit for Olympic marathon
Paula Radcliffe is poised to declare herself fit to start next weekend's Olympic marathon in her bid to beat the odds and win the gold medal she craves...
12th Beijing 2008 - Gay aiming to break 9.7 seconds
Tyson Gay thinks he might need to break 9.7 seconds to win the Olympic 100 metres final and has been focused on doing just that since Usain Bolt ran his world record of 9.72 in May...
12th Beijing 2008 - Robles did not sign petition - Cuba
A senior Cuban athletics coach has denied that his team's best hope for a track gold at the Beijing Olympics had signed a controversial petition pressing China over Tibet and human rights....
12th More WRs On Final Day Of USATF Masters Champs
Ralph Maxwell and Stephen Robbins each set masters world records Sunday at the 2008 USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane, Wash....
11th Beijing 2008 - Thanou barred from Beijing
Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has been barred from competing in the Beijing Games because of her involvement in a doping scandal four years ago...
11th Lee Troop joins his Games family
OLYMPIAN Lee Troop had one last cuddle from his daughter Macy last night before flying out to begin his final preparations for next week's marathon in Beijing....
11th Rankin Wins Falmouth Mile in Record Setting Style!
The 2008 CIGNA Falmouth Men's Mile concluded with a meet record and two personal bests, as Jon Rankin of San Diego, Calif., crossed the line in 3:56.45. John Jefferson of Eugene, Ore., finished second in 3:56.82, a personal best by three seconds, while Kurt Benninger of Canada followed close behind for third in 3:56.99...
11th 'In 100 years, people will laugh at us for trying to ban drugs'
Professor Noakes is a trained doctor but his knowledge in the field of exercise psychology and health treatment is immense, earning him repute from his work in the field of physiology of human performances and other aspects of sporting performance...
11th New website launched: RunningMeets.com
Where Teams, Coaches and Runners meet up on the web to Coach, Train, Connect and Compete...
10th Martin Dent and Rebecca Lowe win Sydney City to Surf
Martin Dent has won this year's City2Surf with an unofficial time of 41 minutes 11 seconds, the first Australian to win since 1997. Rebecca Lowe took first place in the women's category with an unofficial time of 48 minutes......
10th Sebastian Coe mourns the death of his father
Coe, the chairman of London 2012, had delayed his departure for Beijing to spend time with his father, who died after a short illness at the age of 88....
10th Radcliffe rival in fatigue concern
Women's Olympic marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi of Japan is undergoing tests after suffering from fatigue just over a week before defending her title....
10th Beijing 2008 - Afghan defies odds
Sprinter Robina Muqimyar does not have a qualified trainer, she has no sponsor, she comes from a country ruined by war and she grew up under hardline Islamist rulers who would not brook girls playing sport.....
10th Jamaican internal fighting all resolved
JUST under a week before the start of track and field competition, Jamaica's hopes for its best ever Olympics remain intact....
9th Greek athlete fails doping test, recalled from Beijing
ATHENS (AFP) - A Greek track athlete due to compete in the Beijing Games has been recalled after testing positive for a prohibited performance drug, Greek sports officials said Friday...
9th Pacesetting 800m looks streets ahead
For athletics fans, there has probably never been a more eagerly awaited 800m race than the 1980 Olympic final in Moscow. It was the first confrontation for two years between Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, the two great British middle-distance runners, then at the height of their powers....
9th How the IAAF uncovered Russia's doping cheats
WHEN international drug testers turned up in Russia last year to take samples from the country's top female middle distance runners, they were astounded at how easy their job was....
9th Another Russian fails doping test
RUSSIA'S 3000m steeplechaser Roman Usov has been kicked out of the Olympic team after failing a drugs test....
9th Beijing 2008 - Inside the mind of Mo Farah
Eurosport-Yahoo met with British distance runner Mo Farah before his departure for the Beijing Olympics to explore the mind of a world class athlete on the eve of his biggest test....
9th Beijing 2008 - Team GB: Athletics
An improvement in the Javelin is a must if Kelly Sotherton is to finally fulfil her potential and win in Beijing, but with defending champion Carolina Kluft out of action, she represents a real gold medal hope for Team GB.....
9th Allyson Felix - 'I know what to expect and I'm very confident in my training' - IAAF Online Diaries
Double World 200m champion Allyson Felix checks in from the U.S. team training camp in Dalian, China, where she's finalising her preparations for her second Olymic Games.....
8th Citizen lame: Olympic carpetbagging amounts to athletic treason
He'll be wearing the red, white and blue of the United States in Beijing, and any Olympic medal he wins in the 1,500 meters or 5,000 meters will go toward the U.S. medal count, but he doesn't represent me. I don't want his stinking medals. Bernard Lagat is a terrific runner and he might even be a terrific human being, but he's from Kenya, which means he's Kenyan. Not American....
8th Abebe Bikila: Barefoot in Rome
Running without shoes, Bikila, an Imperial Guardsman in Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's court, pulls ahead in the 1960 Rome marathon...
8th WADA: Beijing will erase Big Ben legacy
BEIJING -- The World-Anti Doping Agency is hoping that these Olympics will vastly improve the public's tattered confidence in clean sport...
8th Jamal leads squad of 12 Bahrainis for Beijing
World 1500m champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal will lead a squad of 12 athletes who will represent Bahrain at the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing...
8th Global Sports Communication with 43 athletes to Beijing
Global Sports Communication, the agency of Jos Hermens, has a group of 43 international top athletes competing at the Olympic Games in Beijing. The athletes of Global Sports Communication have been very successful before, winning over 70 Olympic medals and more than 280 medals at the various IAAF World Championships....
8th Defar – ‘I am back to my best and ready for Beijing’
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Has Olympic and World 5000m champion Meseret Defar lost some of her spark? Is she no longer the golden girl of Ethiopian athletics?...
8th 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - Men's Medal Predictions
Event by event medal predictions by Trackshark.com...
8th 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - Women's Medal Predictions
Event by event medal predictions by Trackshark.com...
8th Lewis: Johnson's medal sweetest
Nine-times Olympic champion Carl Lewis has no doubts about the most treasured of his gold medals -- the one stripped from drug cheat Ben Johnson....
8th India fields 17 athletes in Beijing
While the women maintained their strength (14) on the team, only three men will represent the country this time when compared to the five who made it to the last edition at Athens. Of the three, Discus thrower Vikas Gowda will take part in his second Olympics.....
8th Gay will be fighting fit - coach
World champion Tyson Gay will be fully fit for the biggest challenge of his life when he runs in the highly anticipated 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics, his co-coach said on Thursday....
8th Beijing 2008 - Thanou fate still undecided
Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou's eligibility for the Beijing Games was still undecided after an International Olympic Committee disciplinary review, president Jacques Rogge said....
8th Superstars: Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt always thought he could run a fast 100 metres. Convincing his coach was the difficult part.....
8th High-Profile Champion Keeps Low Profile
BEIJING — Though these things are kept like state secrets, many expect that China’s most popular Olympic champion, the hurdler Liu Xiang, will play a visible role in Friday’s opening to the Beijing Games. Perhaps he will carry China’s flag or light the Olympic caldron.....
7th Doping could be criminalised in UK before 2012
LONDON (AFP) - London Olympic organisers have revealed doping in sport could become a criminal offence in the United Kingdom before the 2012 Games take place...
7th The 'Forgotten Five' aim to upstage Bolt, Gay and Powell
Conventional wisdom since the start of the year has suggested that the men's 100m medals in Beijing will be split between Jamaica and the United States but other men have the credentials to seriously beg to differ....
7th Beijing 2008 - Superstars: Kenenisa Bekele
When Haile Gebrselassie was taking distance running to new levels a decade ago few could have imagined that even before he had retired he would be eclipsed by another Ethiopian, Kenenisa Bekele....
7th Tamsyn Lewis: I'll be racing drugs cheats
AUSTRALIAN track star Tamsyn Lewis has become totally disillusioned with her sport and says she knows she will race against drug cheats in Beijing....
7th John Steffensen pulls out of 400m race, will focus on relay event
MEDAL hopeful John Steffensen is out of the 400m and will only run the relay in Beijing....
7th Beijing 2008 - Superstars: Allyson Felix
The words seemed contradictory: "Allyson (Felix) is like a quiet storm," said US women's head coach Jeanette Bolden.....
7th Deakes says Cheats 'tip of the iceberg'
WORLD champion walker Nathan Deakes has accused his Russian rivals of being involved in systematic doping and said he suspects the athlete who broke his world record may also have taken banned drugs....
7th Usain Bolt knows where he stands on path to sprint glory: it's double or nothing
The fact that the biggest track star at these Olympics had to be told by the media that he would be running in the 100metres in ten days' time is very mind-boggling....
7th Shorter shares thoughts on state of distance running
Frank Shorter won the gold medal in the marathon at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and the silver in 1976 in Montreal and is considered one of America's great long-distance runners. Shorter was also chairman of the United States Anti-Doping Agency for three years.....
6th Russians are 'systematically doping': Olympics drugs czar
BEIJING (AFP) — IOC drugs chief Arne Ljungqvist on Tuesday accused Russia of systematically doping after seven athletes were hit with suspensions which could lead to four-year bans.....
6th Beijing 2008 - Jamaican sprinter tests positive
Jamaican 4x100m relay team member Julien Dunkley said he had been told that he had tested positive for a banned substance and would not be competing for the Caribbean country in the Beijing Olympics......
6th Powell determine to win gold at Beijing Olympics
BEIJING, China -- After missing out at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan last summer, former world record holder Asafa Powell says he is determine to strike gold at the Beijing Olympic Games, which begin on Friday....
6th Beijing 2008 - Joyner-Kersee tips Sotherton
Britain's Kelly Sotherton has a great chance of winning Olympic gold in the heptathlon, according to world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
6th Gay vs Powell in Gateshead – IAAF World Athletics Tour
Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell are set for a showdown in Gateshead just a fortnight after the Olympic 100m final...
6th Gevaert to retire at end of season
Belgium’s reigning European 100m and 200m champion Kim Gevaert announced her retirement from athletics at a press conference yesterday in Yantai. Gevaert said that the Olympic Games will be her last international championships. She celebrates her 30th birthday today (5 Aug)...
6th Wyatt triumphs in Austria - WMRA Grand Prix, 4
Schlickeralm (Telfes), Austria - The answer to the rhetorical question ‘Can anyone beat Wyatt?’ (as posed in our preview on 31 July) is NO or at least, not yet!..
6th Remarkable Radcliffe makes the implausible seem possible
When Paula Radcliffe landed in Macau yesterday she must have been very happy to feel the ground beneath her feet. The very fact that she is there is an indication that her rehabilitation has progressed to the stage where she at least thinks that starting the marathon on August 17 is a realistic possibility....
5th A Brief Chat With Marilson Gomes dos Santos
"The pollution and the heat should not be a problem for me because I am accustomed to that in Sao Paulo. But in Sao Paulo lately, it has been very dry, very low humidity, about 12 percent. So I am a bit worried about how I will adapt to the humidity"...
5th 1,500-meter runners living American dream at games
Manzano (Mexico), Lopez Lomong (Sudan) and Bernard Lagat (Kenya) were all born in places where poverty and fear grabbed hold of so many lives and often controlled them. They now find themselves representing their adopted country, on the verge of living an Olympic version of the American dream.....
5th U.S.'s Hall is in it for long haul
"You never want to believe you can't do something as an elite athlete,'' said Hall, who arrived at Stanford in the fall of 2001 having run the third-fastest 1,500-meter time in high school history. "I was holding on to the mile for a long time. It was really hard for me to set aside my pride and move up from the 1,500 to the 5,000. Once I moved up, I realized I was just as passionate about the longer distances."....
5th Shelley Selected for Rio
World Cross Country representative Michael Shelley will make his debut at the IAAF/CAIXA World Half Marathon Championships on October 12 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.....
5th Radcliffe intends to compete in Olympic marathon
"I'm racing unless my leg breaks down," said Radcliffe, 34, who had looked destined to miss out on her fourth consecutive Olympics when an MRI scan in May revealed a stress fracture in her left thigh...
5th Bryzgalov and Yadzhak win Siberian International Marathon
On a sunny warm morning with 18C at the start Andrey Bryzgalov and Liliya Yadzhak, both from the Russian city Cheliabinsk, left their rivals behind and claimed respective top overall men’s and women’s titles of the 19th Toyota Siberian International Marathon finishing in 2:15.29 and 2:33:41.....
5th Bolt Time Nailed On
The International Association of Athletics Federations have ratified the world 100metres record of 9.72 seconds set by Usain Bolt in New York on May 31.....
5th Hurdler closing in on medal contention
GRUMPY, highly strung, demanding. Sally McLellan is all those things - and they are a good sign - as she counts down to the Olympic Games where she now believes she can win a medal in the 100m hurdles.....
5th Ritzenhein, haunted by 2004, eyes Olympic medal
At 25, Dathan Ritzenhein is just getting started on his career as a world-class runner."There's a short life expectancy in distance running, which is why most careers only last into the early to mid-30s. A 35-year-old is an old man in this sport," Ritzenhein said......
4th Dwyer grad Ricardo Chambers is an Olympian for Jamaica
Ricardo Chambers seemed to stick out from the other sophomores at Dwyer High School. There would be a few muffled laughs when Chambers pronounced "three" as "tree." Other laughs were not so muffled, which only made the quiet boy quieter....
4th Wineberg's low times were long time in making
The list of achievements that Mary Wineberg didn't accomplish as a 400-meter sprinter would normally be enough evidence that she doesn't belong on an Olympic stage....
4th Radcliffe still a major doubt
British athletics officials still have no idea whether marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe will run at the Beijing Olympics even though she is due to join the team at their training camp on Monday....
4th British seek edge for sprint relay defence
MACAU (Reuters) - Britain's sprinters have hatched a plan to prove their stunning victory in the men's Olympic 4 x100 metres relay in Athens four years ago was no fluke.....
4th We're all dopes if we think it's clean
Come Friday night in Beijing, the outside world will be asked to suspend its disbelief for 17 days and trust that everything we watch unfold at the XXIX Olympiad of the modern era is as pure as the virgins in the Forbidden City.....
4th Symmonds focused on 800
If Nick Symmonds never runs another race, he would have the Mona Lisa of track and field art to treasure for a lifetime....
4th Injuries, misfortune hamper Olympians
A few weeks ago, each was a headliner, someone the rest of the competition respected and possibly feared. Now, Hamm and Rezazadeh are out because of injuries, while Gay heads to Beijing focused more on his trainer than rivals Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell. ....
4th Willard: Rapid rise has roots on farm
Nancy Willard dusted off the home video of her little girl playing soccer in elementary school, and it wasn't long after she pressed play that she realized it provided an early glimpse of what her daughter was destined to be.....
3rd With family as inspiration, Lagat ready to pursue elusive Olympic gold
With his older sister his inspiration, and the words of his mother his motivation, Bernard Lagat announces that he is ready to cap a brilliant career with a little piece of history at the Olympic Games in Beijing. His goal? To become the first athlete to do the 1500/5000 double twice at a global championships....
3rd Athlete managers warned to keep distance
Athlete manager Jos Hermens denied reports he has been suspended by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation over unwanted intrusion into Ethiopian Olympic team preparations....
3rd HG Nelson reckons Australia is a bunch of duds
A bit of a harsh article by HG Nelson: "I DON'T dare pick up a newspaper, turn the radio or go on line because I fear that another one of Australia's great Bejing-bound stars will be cactus and unable to line up in their pet event winning this nation craved-for gold"....
3rd China's darling Liu prepares to "fly"
If the hopes of a nation can ever really be said to weigh on the shoulders of a single athlete then Liu Xiang will be carrying a hefty burden on his slender frame at the Beijing Olympics....
3rd Britain: We might not do so Wells in Beijing
SCOTTISH legend Allan Wells today warned there could be a shortage of British track and field Olympic medals in Beijing....
3rd Beijing 2008 - Bolt confirmed for 100m
Jamaican 100 metres world record holder Usain Bolt will run both the 100 and 200 metres at the Beijing Olympics....
3rd Beijing 2008 - USA stripped of another gold
The US 4x400m relay team that won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the International Olympic Committee have confirmed...
Russian Athletes Suspended: Latest column
Seven Russian female athletes have been banned from competition due to tampering with tests. DNA from the samples taken in out of competition tests last year, did not match the samples taken at the Osaka World Champs. This is huge news given who the athletes involved:...
Why We Will Not Boycott Beijing: Latest column
To kick things off, let me start by outlining why the debate on Olympic boycotts is useless and damaging to sport. ....
2nd No Russian appeal until after Games
Russia's Sports Minister called a ban on seven of the country's women athletes just days before the Olympics "unprecedented" but indicated there would be no appeal until after the Games, according to reports.....
2nd Soboleva shocked by doping decision
Russian 1500 metres runner Yelena Soboleva has hit out at the IAAF’s decision to suspend her and six team-mates for doping offences ahead of the Olympic Games, insisting the allegations made against them are “not realistic”....
2nd Twist of fate has Troop flying for Bird's Nest
Even now, nearly three years after the event, Lee Troop winces with pain as he recalls his run in the Fukuoka Marathon in Japan. Just two kilometres into the race he reactivated a stress fracture in his lower back....
2nd Marathon contingency plans a secret
State secrets are part of life in China, and it appears contingency plans for the Olympic marathon event fall under that banner....
2nd Public lose their appetite for Beijing Games
Negative publicity surrounding the Beijing Games has caused a “drastic” fall in interest in the Olympics in Britain, according to market research released today. The public's appetite for the world's biggest sports event has declined since the Athens Games in 2004, led by concerns about China's human rights record and air pollution....
2nd Samuel Wanjiru ready to tackle his first Olympic Games
Resting on a railing overlooking the 81 metres Thompson Falls in Nyahururu, some 190km east of the capital, Samuel Wanjiru gaze is firmly on the water and the spectacle around it....
1st Doping Suspensions Deal Blow to Olympic Dreams
Russia's dreams of pulling off a dazzling performance at the Beijing Olympics took a jolt Thursday with the announcement that five top female athletes had been suspended after failing doping tests....
1st LADIES MAN: Tyson Gay
In Beijing, Tyson Gay could be the man of the hour. But he never would have had the chance without three women....
1st IAAF Anti-doping investigation leads to provisional suspension of Russian athletes
MONACO - The IAAF has provisionally suspended seven athletes* from Russia for doping offences, a decision which has been acknowledged by the All Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF)...
1st Romania drop two athletes suspected of doping
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two female Romanian 1,500-metres runners have been dropped from the country's Olympic team under suspicion of doping, the head of the national Olympic and Sport Committee (COSR) said on Thursday...
1st Back in the day, it was anything goes at the Games
Croquet was an Olympic sport once, at the 1900 Games in Paris. Ticket lines were short. Number of tickets sold to croquet: one. The sport was immediately dropped from future Games, possibly after someone mentioned to an Olympics honcho, "Hey, did you guys realize that croquet is an Olympic sport?"..
1st A Brief Chat With Catherine Ndereba
with more major championship medals than any of her current competitors in the marathon, a daughter aged 11, and the same team she started out with back in the 1990s (manager Lisa Buster and coach Mostafa El-Nechchadi), she heads to Beijing to try and get that ultimate title in sport, to take that coveted title, Olympic champion...
1st An evening with Jeremy Wariner's parents
Danny and Linda Wariner are everyday folk who happen to have a famous son. Journalists have to be careful about making such statements, but it was hard to reach any other conclusion after spending 90 minutes in the Wariners' Grand Prairie home yesterday...
1st Lolo finally gets recognition but still no date! - IAAF Online Diaries
World Indoor champion and newly crowned US champion Lolo Jones is now heading to China to take part in her first Olympic Games. She tells IAAF readers all about it…...
1st The Ultimate Running Machine
Inside a Soviet-style training camp, corporate scientists are reengineering neuro-mechanics, blood chemistry, and brain waves. Welcome to the Oregon Project, where Nike is rebuilding the US marathon team one high tech step at a time....
1st Adidas roads to Beijing athlete videos
World record holder Dayron Robles in Paris, Veronica Campbell-Brown in London, A birthday party with Naide Gomes, Vlasic recaps Paris and looks ahead to Stockholm, Paris GL post-race talk with Jeremy Wariner...
1st Beijing 2008 - Dunkley dropped amid doping claims
Sprinter Julien Dunkley has been dropped from the list of Jamaican athletes competing at the Beijing Olympics but Jamaican Olympic officials would not confirm he tested positive for doping....