Athletics

Coe never in doubt over Bolt dominance

By Andrew Warshaw at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in London

August 6 - The sceptics may have questioned Usain Bolt's credentials in being able to retain his 100 metre Olympic crown on Sunday – but London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe wasn't one of them.

Lightning Bolt lays claim to Olympic legend status after blitzing rivals to retain 100 metres crown

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic Stadium in London

August 5 - Usain Bolt restated his claim to being the world's greatest sprinter here tonight as he emulated Carl Lewis' feat of winning back-to-back Olympic 100 metres titles, holding off the challenge of his training partner, Yohan Blake, who had beaten him at the Jamaican trials, to win in an Olympic record of 9.63sec.

Amputee Pistorius praised by world champion despite finishing last in 400 metres semi-final

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Stadium in London

August 5 - Four-times Paralympic sprint champion Oscar Pistorius finished last in his Olympic 400 metres semi-final – yet received huge support from the phenomenal 80,000 spectators and special praise from world champion Kirani James, who won the race and is now the favourite to take gold in the final tomorrow night.

Shortest winning jump for nearly half a century enough to give Rutherford shock Olympic long jump victory

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Stadium in London

August 4 - Britain's Greg Rutherford pulled off a major shock on what was an electric night here at the London 2012 Games as he produced a phenomenal display in the men's long jump to become the new Olympic champion.

Pistorius becomes first double amputee to compete in the Olympics

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Stadium in London

August 4 - South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius made the perfect start at his Olympic Games debut qualifying for the semi-final of the 400 metres here today.

Exclusive: I have no idea who'll win the London 2012 100m, admits Lewis

By Emily Goddard

By Andrew Warshaw at Bayt Qatar in London

August 4 - Carl Lewis admits he is so out of touch with top-class sprinting these days that he has no idea who will win tomorrow's 100 metres, the blue riband event of London 2012.

Same again for Dibaba and Majewski as they retain Olympic titles

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic Stadium in London

August 3 - As Britain's poster girl Jessica Ennis teed herself up for the big prize, the first women's gold medal of the London 2012 athletics programme went to Ethiopia's astonishing defending Olympic 10,000 metres Tirunesh Dibaba, who destroyed the challenge of Kenya's world 5,000m and 10,000m champion, Vivian Cheruiyot, with a killing surge 500m from the finish.

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Freya Murray gets the nod as Paula Radcliffe's marathon replacement

By Mike Rowbottom

July 30 - Freya Murray, the 28-year-old Scot who was the second British woman home in this year's Virgin London Marathon, has come into the marathon team in place of Paula Radcliffe.

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End of the Olympic dream for Radcliffe after she withdraws from London 2012

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in London

July 29 - Paula Radcliffe will end her brilliant career without an Olympic medal after she today withdrew from Britain's marathon team for London 2012 because of a foot injury which has cast a doubt over whether she will even ever compete again.

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BOA asks for injured Idowu’s medical records

By Mike Rowbottom at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in London

July 24 - The troubled relationship between Phillips Idowu and authority was highlighted again today when the British Olympic Association (BOA) revealed they had written to the athlete asking him to provide details about the hip injury that kept him away from a training camp.

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American 4x400m relay team "already disqualified" bewildered world governing body tell IOC

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay at the Grosvenor House in London

July 24 - A decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to re-award the medals from the women's 4x400 metres at the 2004 Games in Athens has caused surprise among senior officials at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

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Idowu's presence at London 2012 in doubt as he pulls out of training camp for injury treatment

By Mike Rowbottom at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in London

July 23 - Phillips Idowu, Britain's Olympic triple jump silver medallist, has raised concerns still further that he may be unable to compete at the London 2012 Olympics by pulling out of the UK Athletics pre-Games training camp in Portugal in order to receive treatment in London on "an ongoing injury problem".

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Overall defends Bupa Great North 10k title ahead of London 2012 marathon

By Mike Rowbottom

July 22 - Scott Overall, selected to run the marathon for Team GB at the London Olympics, will pick up his international kit on Tuesday (July 24) and fly out to the UK Athletics preparation camp in Portugal as the Bupa Great North 10K champion, having defended his title with some ease in Gateshead this morning.

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IOC decision to award Nigeria 4x400m gold medal from Sydney 2000 comes too late for Sunday Bada

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in London

July 21 - Nigeria were today finally awarded the Olympic gold medal from the men's 4x400 metres relay at the Games in Sydney 12 years ago, although it comes too late for one of their team, Sunday Bada, who died eight months ago.

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Mixed fortunes for Diamond League athletes in Monaco

By Mike Rowbottom

July 20 - Asbel Kiprop, who inherited the Olympic 1500 metres title after Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi was retrospectively banned for doping offences, looks in superb shape to do the job more directly in London this year judging by his performance in the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Monaco tonight.

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