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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (L) and British sprinter James Dasaolu attend a press conference in central London

Is Usain Bolt running under a cloud amid doping suspicions?

Bolt and Dasaolu compete in Anniversary Games on Friday night. It should be a celebration of last year’s Olympics... but all the talk in athletics is of drugs

Usain Bolt in London

Usain Bolt insists he is 'clean' following failed drugs tests for Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay

The Jamaican sprinter is in London to take part in this weekend's Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium

Mo Farah wins 5,000m gold to add to the 10,000m last year

Anniversary Games: Mo Farah excited to return to scene of his gold nights at Olympic Stadium

Mo Farah has stepped inside the Olympic Stadium just once since his golden double last summer.

Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell failed drug tests earlier this month

'Shocked' Asafa Powell vows to return to athletics after failed drug test

Jamaican sprinter tested positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine

Wada president, John Fahey, hopes their new code can provide a framework for anti-doping

'The doping battle will never be won': Wada president John Fahey delivers worrying appraisal

But Wada head tells Matt Majendie why the recent high-profile cases of Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell prove that the fight must go on

No time for Laugher: The Briton could only finish 19th in the one-metre event

Olympic legacy: No springboard to success for Chris Mears and Jack Laugher

There will be no British representation in the men’s one-metre springboard final at the World Championships after Chris Mears and Jack Laugher failed to progress here yesterday.

Yohan Blake

Yohan Blake withdraws from World Championships

The 100m champion has suffered a hamstring injury

Usain Bolt pats Asafa Powell on the head after edging him out in the 100m in Oslo

Sebastian Coe says athletics cannot afford to lose fight against doping

Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell have tested positive

Tyson Gay has tested positive for a banned substance

Tyson Gay dropped by sponsor Adidas after failed drugs test

World of athletics continues to tremor as the fallout from failed tests continues

American 100-metre record holder Tyson Gay, who had promoted himself as a clean athlete, tested positive for a banned substance and said he will pull out of the world championships in Moscow

Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay both test positive for oxilofrine

High-profile sprinters are among six athletes to have failed drug tests in the space of 24 hours

Olive Lewin: Anthropologist who rescued Jamaican folklore from Eurocentrism

Olive Lewin was a Jamaican anthropologist and cultural historian who, over the last 60 years, pulled Jamaican folklore out of the shadow of Eurocentric prejudice.

Tyson Gay celebrates after winning the Men's 100 m event during the Diamond League Athletics meeting

Tyson Gay wins 100 metres at Diamond League meeting in Lausanne

American champion Tyson Gay continued his impressive buildup to next month's world championships by winning the 100 metres at Lausanne's Athletissima Diamond League meeting in 9.79 seconds.

Dustin Brown shocked former Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt

Wimbledon 2013: More sporting woe for Australia as Dustin Brown shocks former champion Lleyton Hewitt

German-Jamaican is, a qualifier ranked 189th in the world, had only once won a main-draw match at a grand slam before this week

Sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown's doping offence 'lesser'

The IAAF have said that the doping case involving suspended Jamaican sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown appears to involve a "lesser" offence.

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