Triple European champion Christophe Lemaitre’s victory in the 100m and Blanka Vlasic’s dominating performance in the High Jump were the key highlights at the 23rd Super Track and Field meet at Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki on Sunday (19). In…

Steve Hooker had a close shave in his final meet before the Commonwealth Games, the Olympic champion missing the mat in a leap in northern England. The pole vaulter failed to register a height in the gusty conditions at an Australia v…

Australian Commonwealth Games team chef de mission Steve Moneghetti admits extroverted and controversial runner John Steffensen will be missed in Delhi. But whether he is actually in any shape to have mounted a creditable defence of his 400…

A lack of IOC commitment meant Sydney was ''a Games that had drug users who were not caught'', writes David Sygall. Somewhere, possibly now at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Switzerland, a file containing the…

Craig Mottram sent national selectors a clear reminder of what Australia will be missing at next month's Commonwealth Games by storming to victory at the Great North City Games. The former world championships bronze medallist powered away…

Jamaican Nesta Carter, returned home on Friday after a successful 2010 season which saw him becoming the world's fourth fastest man ever over 100 metres. The Olympic gold medallist lowered his previous personal best time of 9.91seconds by a…

Jamaica could close next year's IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea in a blaze of glory and a world record after a change in the schedule of the event which sees the women's and men's 4x100m relays ending the nine-day meet. The…

It has been a long time since a British 400m hurdler has broken 48 seconds. 18 years in fact. But here in the Poljud Stadium in Split – the same track where UK record-holder Kriss Akabusi struck gold in 1990 – David Greene became the 37th…

Two reigning World champions and a pair of reigning Olympic champions will headline the Osaka Grand Prix on Saturday, the second IAAF World Challenge meeting of 2010. Leading the field in the women’s 100m will be Jamaica’s two-time Olympic…

National track & field coach Raymond ‘KC’ Graham, a high school stand-out coach has blasted comments made by US Junior College coach Michael Smart about getting second-tier athletes from Jamaica. “Coach Smart has no regard or respect…

American star sprinter Tyson Gay, has one goal in mind this year, and that is to lower Usain Bolt's 9.58secs world record in the 100m. Gay, who will continue his build-up to the rest of the season later this evening with a 400m run at the…

Fireworks are expected at today's seventh Jamaica International Invitational track and field meet where several Olympic and World Championship medallists, including Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Carmelita Jeter and Veronica Campbell-Brown will be…

Manchester – winner of one Penn Relays title – and Holmwood Tech, winner of 13, lead another strong group of Jamaican girls’ teams at this year’s Relays. Manchester’s sole victory came in the 1994 4x100 Championship of America. This year…

In this month's issue of Esquire magazine, there's a great read on the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt. What made the piece so fascinating and enlightening was this paragraph: "Ethan Siegel, a theoretical astrophysicist at Lewis & Clark…

Villanova taught Sean Tully how to be an engineer, but his greatest lesson on structural wear and tear didn't take place in a classroom. The former Syosset High School track star can look back now and see where he went wrong. But a…