Athletics

'Now it just seems that this is where I should be. I don't worry any more,' says Germaine Mason on his move from Jamaica to the UK

Germaine Mason: 'It's been a difficult year for my family'

Since the Birchfield Harrier leapt to a surprise Olympic silver medal he has endured knee surgery and seen his brother jailed for a horrific gang murder.

Inside Athletics

Heptathlete Ennis aims to banish Beijing blues

Friday, 10 July 2009

The spotlight will fall on Britain's one and only Olympic track and field champion, Christine Ohuruogu, and on its lingering cause c�lèbre, Dwain Chambers, when the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships get under way in Birmingham this evening.

The man to make us say 'Dwain who?'

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Simeon Williamson has the raw speed to challenge in the 100m in 2012 and lift British sprinting out of Chambers' tainted shadow. His quest starts this weekend in Birmingham

Bolt faces Crawford again

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Usain Bolt will renew his rivalry with former Olympic 200-metres champion Shawn Crawford at the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne tomorrow.

High-flying Dai goes from football flop to hurdle king

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Greene couldn't cut it as a Swansea left-winger but is making giant strides over 400m and is a realistic medal hope at the worlds

The Last Word: This gimmick must be given a straight red

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Only the custard pies are missing as athletics turns into 'It's A Knockout' by eliminating back markers

Yamauchi forced out by foot injury

Saturday, 27 June 2009

And then there were three. Britain's medal prospects two months out from the world championships in Berlin have not exactly been looking the brightest, what with only four athletes ranked in the world's top 10 this year in events that will be contested in the German capital in August.

GB athletes must toughen up, says Van Commenee

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Charles van Commenee has never been one to call a spade anything as fanciful as even a shovel.

Chambers speeds to the rescue

Monday, 22 June 2009

Former drug cheat steps in at 200m and wraps up sprint double for Britain

Chambers and GB stick to the rules with success

Sunday, 21 June 2009

It did not take long for the new- fangled rules of the European Team Championships to reduce what was formerly the European Cup to something of a farce yesterday.

Phillips must switch on to fly past the genuine Superman

Sunday, 21 June 2009

When Phillips Idowu won the triple jump at the Olympic trials in Birmingham last July, venturing clear at the top of the world rankings with an effort of 17.58m, he told the trackside television interviewer: "I feel like Superman right now. I'm bullet-proof." Eleven months on, the Belgrave Harrier is getting ready for another tussle with the man who pierced his armour of supposed invincibility when Olympic gold was on the line in Beijing last August.

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