Coach of star of the Games tells Matt Majendie how after a post-Olympic slump the duo are raring to go again and how he's open to a return to working with UK Athletics

Double Olympic champion fancies a crack at Steve Jones' 28-year-old British record of two hours seven minutes 13 seconds

Mo Farah will return to London next year to make his marathon debut proper but beyond that it is the extraordinary exploits of the flying Finn Lasse Viren, the greatest distance runner in Olympic history, that offer a clue to the possible long-term ambition of the Briton.

View From The Sofa: London Marathon, BBC1

Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee began his 2013 World Triathlon Series season with a comfortable win in San Diego.

Ethiopian bizarrely not selected for London overhauls Mutai in final miles for second win

The London Marathon organisers were criticised by Josh Cassidy, a former winner of the men's wheelchair race, after the Canadian collided with Tiki Gelana, the Olympic champion and women's favourite, at a drinks station nine miles into the race.

Competitors observe a 30-second silence before the start of the men's elite race and runners  have been encouraged to wear black ribbons

The Londoner will run only half of today's course

Palestinians and their supporters are running the West Bank's first marathon.

Britain's Paralympic hero hopes for a London Marathon that can lift spirits after last week's US bombing atrocity. Matt Majendie meets David Weir

Using painkillers before running a marathon could cause serious side effects, experts have warned.

When Tiki Gelana won Olympic gold in London last year she was only doing what has become expected of a runner from the small town of Bekoji, some 170 miles south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

After the tragic events of Boston, Richard Whitehead readily admits he had second thoughts about this weekend’s London Marathon.

Planet's fastest endurance athletes set to spur each other towards historic time