Sporting Digest: Athletics

Tuesday 18 May 1999 23:02 BST

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Marion Jones of the United States, the second-fastest female runner of all time, has announced she will run in Britain for the first time in the British Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on Saturday 7 August.

This year's World Championship, scheduled for Seville in August, is likely to include a women's 100m and a men's 200m exclusively for blind athletes. The move should be approved at today's International Amateur Athletic Federation council meeting in Seville.

The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, banned for life after two positive drug tests, will have an application for reinstatement heard by the IAAF in Seville today.

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