Athletics

Usain Bolt will have to hand back one of his nine Olympic gold medals after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter (left) tested positive for a banned substance at the Beijing Olympics…

Russian national flag and Olympic flag are seen during closing ceremony for 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Russian officials for the first time have admitted to mass doping in the country’s…

The second part of an independent report for the World Anti-Doping Agency provided evidence that more than 1,000 Russian athletes competing in summer, winter and Paralympic sport were involved in…

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ethiopian distance runner Almaz Ayana were crowned as the IAAF’s athletes of the year on Friday. Bolt completed his amazing Olympic “triple triple” of 100metres, 200metres…

Usain Bolt of Jamaica poses before a press conference for the 2016 IAAF Athletics Awards in Monaco, December 2, 2016. REUTERS photo Looking back at his astonishing career on the…

IAAF President Sebastian Coe said the Council felt “comforted” the changes had come about as a result of the decision to ban the Russians but recognised that athletics still had…

The teenage daughter of American sprinter Tyson Gay has been killed in a shooting in Kentucky. The Lexington Police Department announced that the 15-year-old Trinity Gay was killed in the…

Even the fastest man in the world can’t outrun scandal. Coming off an unprecedented triple-triple performance – winning 100 meter, 200 meter and 4x100m gold-medals at his third consecutive Olympics…

The Ethiopian marathon runner who made an anti-government gesture at the Rio Games while approaching the finish line will not face prosecution upon his return home and will have ”a…

When Team USA asked gymnastics star Simone Biles to be the flag bearer for the team during the Closing Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics, it may have overlooked a…