Athletics





Coe never in doubt over Bolt dominance

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

Usain bolt_at_London_2012_100_metre_finalAugust 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.






Same again for Dibaba and Majewski as they retain Olympic titles

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic Stadium in London 

Tirunesh Dibaba_winning_Olympic_10000m_London_2012_August_3_2012August 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.



BOA asks for injured Idowu’s medical records

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

Charles van_CommeneeJuly 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.