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In sharp contrast to the summer of 2012 when David Rudisha arrived in London unbeaten that year over two laps of the track and promptly blew everybody away with his world record run of 1:40.91, this year has been a bit m...

Caster Semenya starts a red-hot favourite to upgrade on her Olympic silver medal from four years ago after enjoying a peerless campaign.

The big favourite - on the basis that he has won the past three world titles and was the 2008 Olympic champion - has to be Asbel Kiprop.

The question of the men's 5000m comes in two parts. First, has the combination of another year of age, the 10,000m final he will already have run, and the accumulating weight of his medals slowed Mo Farah's closing burst...

World champion Almaz Ayana will start as the big favourite, especially after her run of 14:12.59 which scared the world record at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome back at the start of June, her last run over the d...

It's tempting to rhetorically consign the men's 10,000m gold medal for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to Mohammed Farah of Great Britain, the defending champion.

Usain Bolt shows off his dancing skills at a press conference on Monday where he says he is relaxed about defending his 100-metre title at the Rio Olympics. The six-time Olympic gold medalist took to the stage with a tea...

Two-time defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba will be at the start for the women's 10,000m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, but for once she isn't even the standard bearer for the Ethiopian team.

Many people's favourite for the men's marathon will inevitably be be Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge.

It has been 36 years since the 3000m steeplechase gold medallist came from a country other than Kenya, a streak that's unlikely to end in Rio.

It may be a sign of the increasing maturity of the women's 3000m steeplechase as an Olympic event that at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the third Olympics to hold the event, there are no clear favourites.

The Jamaican sprint champion was his usual self in a bizarre press conference, but said he believes the sport is making progress in tackling drug cheats To the Cicada des Arts, a sprawling cultural complex in Barra, to j...