OLYMPICS

Breen to chase A-qualifier for Rio at Canberra meet

Jon Tuxworth   Canberra sprinter Melissa Breen will continue her quest to lock down an A-qualifying time and an automatic Olympic Games spot when she competes in Saturday's High Noon meet at the Australian Institute of Sport. 

Tallent in mock ceremony, but no world title guarantee

Samantha Lane   Jared Tallent puts some light into the latest dark doping news out of Russia by staging a mock ceremony where he is adorned with one of the golds cheats have denied him.

Tallent stages backyard medal ceremony

Nick Martin   Olympic race walker stages a gold medal ceremony of his own after two Russian athletes involved in the doping scandal had their medals stripped.

Rio gets closer, Aussie times keep dropping

Michael Gleeson   As the Olympics loom, several Australians have posted personal bests and improved times in their events.

Sally clears first hurdle

Michael Gleeson   Sally Pearson has cleared her first hurdle in the long run back to fitness on the road to Rio, racing for the first time in a year.

Beijing positives 'bad news', says Bolt

Jamaican sprint great speaks after news 31 athletes were caught doping in retests from 2008 Olympics.

Pearson to make hurdles return at Diamond League

John Salvado   A year and a day after breaking her left wrist having crashed to the track in Rome, Sally Pearson will make her long-awaited competitive return at the Diamond League meet in Birmingham on June 5.

Thirty-one athletes could miss Rio after Beijing re-tests

Thirty-one athletes from six sports could be banned from this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics after 454 doping samples were re-tested from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the IOC said on Tuesday.

Bolt cruises to win Olympic season opener

Usain Bolt has taken his first strides toward his goal of an unprecedented Olympic sprints three-peat in Rio with an easy 100m victory at the Cayman Invitational.

Tallent fuming after second place in Italy

Champion Australian walker Jared Tallent says he lost focus during last weekend's World Cup in Rome due to the presence of convicted drug cheat Alex Schwazer.

John Landy pays tribute to Merv Lincoln

Anthony Bunn   Athletics has lost a sporting "ornament" with the death of Merv Lincoln, his old rival John Landy told mourners on Tuesday.

Tallent to receive London walking gold in June

Australian walker Jared Tallent will finally be presented with his 2012 Olympic gold medal in June in Melbourne.

Aussie runner smashes best, books Rio spot

Michael Gleeson   Melbourne runner Linden Hall has run a big personal best to record an Olympic qualifier in the United States.

Sprinter Hartmann has Rio reward in mind

By Melissa Woods

Astronaut Tim Peake runs the London Marathon in space

British astronaut Tim Peake has become the first man to complete a marathon in space, running 42 kilometres while strapped to a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.

Olympics dream over for Craig Mottram

Joe Barton   Craig Mottram's dream of becoming the first Australian track and field athlete to compete at fifth Olympic Games is over.

Long walk to freedom spurs sprinter's run

Daniel Lane   Can Perth sprinter Mangar Makur Chuot measure up to the hero his native South Sudan lost when his father, a chief and "big man", was killed in a hail of machinegun bullets when the starter fires his gun for the men's 200 metres sprint at Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Stadium?

Olympian connection spurs Indigenous kids

Daniel Lane   One of Australia's top athletics coaches has revealed the almost mystical bond a refugee who is about to represent his native South Sudan at the Olympic Games has with the Indigenous children in Australia.