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Kenyan produces wins tactical final at Olympic Stadium Ethiopia's world record holder Genzebe Dibaba takes silver Kenya's Faith Kipyegon won the women's Olympic 1500m after unleashing a devastating burst in the second ha...

• IOC president says crowd behaviour was 'shocking' • Home winner Thiago Braz da Silva consoled rival Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee president, described the home crowd's treatment of the pole vault...

Kenya's David Rudisha plans to defend his 800m title at the 2017 World Championships and admits he has not ruled out defending his Olympic crown at Tokyo 2020.

• Briton reaches final but trips up on way to finishing third• Empty seats a feature again of the Olympic stadium Four days after Mo Farah's victory in the 10,000m he was back on the track to begin the second half of...

'I'll never let him win,' says Alistair of Jonny as the siblings aim to improve on their gold and bronze finish in London 2012 It was one of the enduring images of the London 2012 Olympics. Tens of thousands of people cr...

That night, the head of UK Sport convinced David Cameron elite sport funding must be sustained - meaning some sports lost out When Sue Campbell sat next to the prime minister on Super Saturday at London 2012, she had one...

The South African, the public face of a gender controversy, won her 800m heat but avoided the media after seven years of intense and invasive coverage Even when she had finished the race Caster Semenya did not stop runni...

• Team GB's Laura Muir: 'I have my doubts, let me say that'• Silver medallist Genzebe Dibaba: 'I'm crystal clean from doping' The British middle-distance runners Laura Muir and Laura Weightman have questioned whether...

Haiti's Jeffrey Julmis takes a nasty tumble in the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles but picks himself back up and finishes the race.

Olympic 5,000m runner Abbey D'Agostino - who ran her heat with a torn knee ligament - will miss the final with the injury.

Conseslus Kipruto ran an Olympic record of 8:03.28 to win Kenya's ninth consecutive gold medal in the men's 3000m steeplechase.

Great Britain's Lynsey Sharp qualifies for the women's 800m semi-finals, winning heat one ahead of Amela Terzic of Serbia.

Mo Farah and Hassan Mead collide during the heats for the 5,000m at the Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Farah did qualify however and will race in the final on Saturday

In a brutally tough qualification round, with eight heats in total and only the top two in each race progressing by right, there was little margin for error.

It's not often that Ashton Eaton is put under pressure. If anyone was wondering how he copes in such situations, the US decathlete gave an emphatic answer in the long jump: with relative ease.

Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto wins the men's 3,000m steeplechase gold medal in Rio with an Olympic record time.

The men's hammer qualifiers saw the biggest shock of the Olympics athletics programme so far with Poland's two-time world champion Pavel Fajdek failing to progress to Friday's final.

The men's 5000m field was thinned from 51 to 15 on Wednesday morning (17) ahead of the final on Saturday. The field was split between two heats with the first five finishers from each race, plus the five fastest non-auto...

The men's combined events got off to the best possible start in Rio with the Olympic decathlon 100m best being broken.

Michael Johnson meets his match, in the form of a moth. And this time, the Olympic champion and BBC athletics expert is victorious.

American gymnast Simone Biles wins her fourth gold medal of the 2016 Olympics in the women's floor in Rio on Tuesday. On the track, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon takes the gold medal in the women's 1500m while Omar McLeod of Ja...

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