A portrait of Oscar Pistorius is among 200 paintings to go on show at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London this week.

With no contempt laws to speak of in South Africa, rumours and half-truths have been allowed to swirl around the murder case. Daniel Howden and Ian Burrell report on an unsavoury PR battle

According to reports, officers who searched the home of the Olympic athlete after Reeva Steenkamp was killed are reported to have found steroids

Atheltics world reacts to tragedy in Pretoria

World's fastest man Usain Bolt is still toying with the notion of adding the 400 metres or long jump to his repertoire after retaining his 100 and 200 Olympic titles.

Charles van Commenee is to step down as UK Athletics head coach after the team failed to meet his own medal target at the London Olympics.

The world's fastest man Usain Bolt has claimed he wants to try his hand at the long jump before the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Ohuruogu meets Richards-Ross while Gemili and Bleasedale also in action tonight

Although the only thing that double Olympic champion Mo Farah will be running away from at the moment is the legion of potential advertisers beating down his door, a Tumblr blog called "Mo Farah Running Away From Things" has provided – among rising inflation figures and other woes – an unlikely post-Olympic pick-me-up.

Samantha Murray ensured that Britain bade a medal-winning farewell to the London Olympics here last night when she won a silver in the modern pentathlon, the final event of the 2012 Games. Amid joyous scenes at Greenwich Park, surely one of the most spectacular venues at these Olympics, the 22-year-old student held off the challenge of Brazil's Yane Marques to finish second behind the gold medal winner, Lithuania's Laura Asadauskaite.

It was the morning after the night before. Or possibly the Knight before? Having put his rivals to the sword for a second Super Saturday in the home straight of the electric Olympic Stadium, the British runner who has joined the hallowed greats of distance running with his golden 5,000m-10,000m double was asked: "What would Sir Mo feel like?"

Van Commenee will consider his position after athletes fail to hit target of eight medals

Uganda's Stephen Kiprotich stunned the Kenyan challenge to clinch a surprise Olympic gold medal in the marathon on The Mall today.

Mo Farah has told how "everything just came together for me" as he became double Olympic champion.

Sebastian Coe has hailed Mo Farah's double Olympic gold as an achievement of "extraordinary magnitude".