Athletics

American swimmer Michael Phelps says the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) should do more to help Olympians transitioning into retirement, saying they are all too often “brushed aside” as the focus…

Kenya’s Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge pulverised the marathon world record with a blistering run on Sunday, slicing a staggering 78 seconds off the previous best to land the one major…

Jarrion Lawson of the US American long jumper and sprinter Jarrion Lawson blamed contaminated beef after the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday that he had been provisionally suspended…

File Photo: From L-R: David Okeyo, Athletics Kenya Secretary General, Kipchoge Keino, the chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee and Athletics Kenya Chairman Isaiah Kiplagat prepares to address a news…

Caster Semenya put aside the controversy over a planned rule change in athletics regarding hyperandrogenism to win the women’s 1,500 metres and break her own South African record time at…

South Africa’s Caster Semenya is a target of IAAF’s new gender rule.(AP) South African Caster Semenya’s long and controversial reign as the queen of middle distance running looks set to…

She went, she saw and she conquered.  That is the best way to capture the fit achieved by Nigerian sprinter, Oluwatobilolba Amusan after clinching gold in the  100m hurdles at…

A packed news conference room at an often near-deserted media centre on the Gold Coast told its own tale of Usain Bolt’s enduring appeal Usain Bolt sometimes still can’t quite…

Gold medalist Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates South African flag-bearer Caster Semenya powered to the 1,500 metres title at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, keeping her bid for a…

Men’s 200m Freestyle gold medalist Kyle Chalmers and silver medalists Mac Horton of Australia on the podium Bronte Campbell and Kyle Chalmers were roared on by a fervent home crowd…