Usain Bolt won a third successive Olympic 200m gold on Thursday (Friday, Manila time) to keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented "triple triple" in Rio.more
Two Olympic runners have been praised for embodying "the Olympic spirit" after they stopped mid-race to help each other after falling in the women's 5,000m qualifying heat at the Rio Games.more
The Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Olympics for violating team rules by going out for a night of drinking in Rio after qualifying for the finals of the rings event, the Dutch team's ambassador has confirmed.more
Access to Usain Bolt has been scarce for the media desperate to speak with arguably the biggest star of the Rio 2016 Games as he prepares to defend his three Olympic titles.more
Sprint king Usain Bolt believes the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling on Russia's drug cheats will scare athletes and send a strong message that doping won't be tolerated.more
The Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova, who blew the whistle on corruption between senior figures in the IAAF and Russian athletics after being banned for doping offences, has been ordered to pay back £377,961.62 plus costs to the London Marathon. more
She was once the ponytailed Romanian teenager excited at the thought of owning coloured socks and eating bubble gum yet Nadia Comaneci went on to captivate the world by performing an Olympic feat that continues to stir the emotions four decades later.more
Three victories on the final day of the 23rd European Athletics Championships here - from Adam Kszczot over 800 metres, Angelika Cichocka in the 1500m and hammer thrower Pawel Fajdek - moved Poland tmore
Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa said the athlete had to be punished for murdering the model and law student but said he had already served 12 months in prison for the previous manslaughter conviction and was remorseful for what he had done. more
