Athletics News

Instead of taking responsibility the IOC has continued to count its Olympic money, leaving the people it is supposed to stand up for to fend for themselves Of all the stupendous feats performed at the Rio Games over the ...

Petro Mamu of Eritrea and Austrian Andrea Mayr took dominating victories at the third stage of the 2016 Mountain Running World Cup in Telfes im Stubai, Austria, on Sunday (31).

Ethiopia's Tadese Tola and Kenya's Purity Rionoripo took the honours at the Bogota Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in two races that could hardly have been more contrasting on Sunday (31).

BBC Sport continues the countdown to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games with Daley Thompson retaining his decathlon title at the 1984 Games.

Soon after his 400m hurdles victory at the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 eight days ago, a Jamaican journalist asked Jaheel Hyde if his successful title defence earned his season a 'Mission Accomplished' ch...

We look at some of the athletes likely to strike gold at the Games Perhaps it will be some consolation for the organisers of Rio 2016 to think that the only way - surely - is up. Last month, like in a scene from The Wire...