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.

Unloved for high performance, hurdler Michele Jenneke and sprinter Melissa Breen could be sought as sports entertainers for Nitro.

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.

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

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.