Sport

Latest Athletics News

Bolt to run in Australia for next three years

Committed: Usain Bolt will take part in the Nitro Athletic series for the next three years.

The world's fastest man wants to run with Australia's fastest boy. Usain Bolt wants Jack Hale to be on his team for the new Nitro Athletics series in Melbourne in February next year.

In John we trust: Athletics' unlikely saviour

Front man: Former 400m runner John Steffensen hopes the new Nitro concept will reinvigorate athletics.

Several years ago Athletics Australia held a press conference with John Steffensen. They were never sure what Steffensen would say at the best of times but knew that when he spoke he got people's attention. So they held their breath and offered him up.

Top woman in sport is a man

The International Olympic Committee has given its top award for women in sport to a man

The best woman in world sport is a man. You read that right. The International Olympic Committee has given its top award for women and sport to a man.

Bolt takes stake in Nitro

Usain Bolt will compete in Melbourne next February.

Usain Bolt will not only be paid to run in Melbourne he will be an equity partner in the new athletics concept that is hoped to re-energise athletics like Twenty 20 cricket and be taken to the rest of the world

IAAF president Coe cleared in Qatari bribes inquiry

IAAF president Sebastian Coe.

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.

Usain Bolt disappoints Gold Coast's plans

Gold Coast off the cards: Usain Bolt has confirmed he will retire after the London world championships.

​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.

Stawell Gift legend Ravelo dies

Jean Louis Ravelomanantsoa (right) won the Stawell Gift in 1975 from Peter Marks (left) and Murray McGregor (second from ...

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.