Usain Bolt's toughest opponents in his final race in his Jamaican homeland were emotions and nerves.

Mixed relays and three-a-side basketball will be included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games.

Five-time Olympic medallist Sanya Richards-Ross was two weeks out from attending her second Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 when she learned what would wind up to be life-changing news.

​Olympic and world champion Sally Pearson has won the 100m hurdles at the Great City Games in Manchester.

Aspiring runners should not feel limited by fitness or age, but should instead focus on improving their own running style and cadence, a health expert says.

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What to do about those St Kilda footballers who last weekend revealed themselves not to have evolved since before most were born, since a time when Tony Shaw said he would use a racist epithet every week if he thought it would gain his team an edge, a time so long ago it can be found only by carbon-dating?

Far from glorifying doping in sport, the Ben Johnson betting ad highlights the cost

When a mate told Adam Farlow they should get back into athletics, his life changed completely.

Australian sport's anti-doping agency has added its voice to a chorus of outrage at a gambling ad starring disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson.

The Kenyan Olympic champion missed the two-hour barrier by just 25 seconds.

Moves to effectively eliminate athletics history prior to 2005, likely to be ratified by the IAAF, would rob clean athletes of their legitimate world marks, according to the domestic governing body.

Mike Tancred, a close ally of AOC president John Coates, has been the target of a number of complaints from staff.

Kenya's Daniel Wanjiru's triumph completed the double for Kenya after Mary Keitany sealed her third London title

A runner competing in the gruelling London Marathon has been praised for sacrificing his own race to help another exhausted competitor over the finishing line in what has been described as the ultimate act of sportsmanship.

Sally Pearson's rival and the reigning Olympic gold medallist, Brianna Rollins has been banned for a year for a drug offence.

Reports have claimed he was riding in a convoy with a number of athletes, including 100m and 200m world record holder Usain Bolt, when he lost control of his bike.

Adidas has apologised for sending a marketing email praising customers it said "survived" this year's Boston Marathon.

Fifty years ago, a runner officially entered as KV Switzer participated in the Boston Marathon. On Tuesday, she was doing it again at age 70.

Teenagers have ruled the Stawell Gift with Matthew Rizzo and Liv Ryan taking out the finals at the historic sprint meeting in country Victoria.