Melissa Breen says Usain Bolt headlining the Nitro Athletics series is a massive coup for the sport in Australia but believes her funding snub will see her miss the tournament.

Melissa Breen could soon find herself pitted against — or even alongside — Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt's career has been about making his sport fun and watchable so the idea of a new concept for his sport that tries to do both makes it both.

The fastest man ever the world, the world's greatest ever athlete, Usain Bolt, will race in Australia this summer. 

Nine-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt said he lives to inspire and hopes to be remembered as "one of the greatest athletes in sport" when he retires from competition.

Not one Australian male track and field athlete is ranked the best in the Commonwealth.

Australian pole vault record holder Alana Boyd has decided that the best year of her decorated career is the perfect time to bow out.

Rugby union wasn't ACT Brumbies team manager Ben Gathercole's first love, but he grew to love it over his two seasons with the Super Rugby province.

The IAAF's Ethics Board has backed Sebastian Coe after the president of athletics' governing body denied discussing rumours that Qatari officials had been paying bribes in a bid to secure hosting rights for the 2017 world championships.

Sally Pearson and Australia's top speed merchants are expected to descend on Canberra's biggest summer of athletics.

Authorities say the 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay has been fatally shot in Kentucky.

​Jamaica's Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will run his last race on home soil at June's Racers Grand Prix before retiring from competition two months later, ruining plans to bring him for one last soiree at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

One of only two men to win the Stawell Gift from scratch in more than 120 years, Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa died last month aged 73.

For one of Australia's most successful Paralympian sprinters, Evan O'Hanlon, the end of his career was met with more than a tinge of disappointment. After winning gold medals in his 100m class in Beijing and London, this time he's going home with silver.

Canberra sprinter Melissa Breen has declared her intentions to become a four-time Olympian while training partner and hurdler Lauren Wells is set to finish her career at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Genevieve LaCaze has carried her stellar Olympic form into the Paris Diamond League meet, smashing the Australian record in the fastest women's 3000 metres steeplechase of all-time.

Having made the final by the skin of their teeth, Australia's youthful combination of Jess Thornton, Anneliese Rubie,Caitlin Sargent-Jones and Morgan Mitchell failed to make a dent in the women's 4x400m final.

For Australia's 4x400m relay team, it was a tale of a squeak, and then shrieks.

Organisers of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games will do all they can to convince athletics superstar Usain Bolt to extend his career to attend their event.