Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are free to resume racing after the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS) reduced their 18-month doping bans to six months on Monday.
The 2014 Kangbao Grassland Marathon will kick off in Kangbao town of Zhangjiakou city, North China's Hebei province on July 19, local official sources said on Thursday.
Oscar Pistorius, the South African track star on trial for murder for shooting his girlfriend, was not suffering from a mental condition that would have impaired his ability to distinguish between right and wrong at the time she was killed, a psychiatric report said on Monday.
Russian double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has given birth to her first child, the Russian athletics federation said Sunday.
Germany’s Nikias Arndt won a sprint finish to claim the third stage of the Criterium du Dauphine in France on Tuesday as Britain’s Chris Froome held onto the race lead.
Jamaica's Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt, currently recovering from a foot injury, said Friday he is not ready to race at meets in Ostrava or Paris.
Australia will send its biggest-ever track and field team to a championships outside its shores at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games next month.
Chinese injured star hurdler Liu Xiang could be back to competition next April or May and has set his goal to run in the 2015 World Championships, his coach Sun Haiping revealed here on Saturday.
Zhejiang's Xu Jiayu kept his hot momentum to claim the third national record and gold medal, while Guangdong's Yu Hexin clinched his second gold medal in men's short-distance freestyle at the Chinese National Swimming Championships here on Friday.
Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Aries Merritt of the United States has withdrawn from the men's 110m hurdles event at Sunday's Diamond League Shanghai meet, the organizers confirmed on Thursday.
Former Olympic champion Justin Gatlin overcame strong headwinds to sprint to his second 100 meters victory in as many weeks at an IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) World Challenge meeting in Tokyo on Sunday.
The Chinese pair of Bian Yufei and Cai Zhaohong won the mixed relay with 1492 points overall on Monday at the 2014 Modern Pentathlon World Cup meet in Kecskemet, Hungary on the final day of the competition.
Kenya's veteran and multiple London Marathon champion Martin Lel will not be lining up in Sunday's Hamburg marathon after pulling out with muscle strain.
On Monday, for almost the whole daytime, east US metropolis Boston has experienced tight security measures, with the aim to make the 2014 Boston Marathon race, starting at 6 a.m. and finishing at 5 p.m., as one of the biggest and safest in its 118-year old history.