DUAL Olympian Tamsyn Lewis defied a heavy training load to record an encouraging win in the 400m at the Zatopek 10 meeting at Olympic Park last night.
THE International Olympic Committee officially wiped out US sprinter Marion Jones's Olympic career today, taking back her five Sydney 2000 medals.
OSCAR Pistorius, the self-described "fastest thing on no legs", retains his sense of humour and confidence when he mulls over the possibility his Olympics dream could be about to be shattered.
SPRINTER John Steffensen will have more than a fragile hamstring to worry about if found to have verbally abused national selector Glynis Nunn-Cearns.
AT THE risk of pre-empting an Athletics Australia investigation into his conduct, somebody should tell John Steffensen to run a reality check on his status in the sport.
TEEN sprint queen Lauren O'Sullivan is a hair's-breadth off becoming Australia's fastest 200m runner.
IT IS a quirk of Australian Olympic history that only two track and field athletes have won gold medals in field events - and they were both named Winter.
SELDOM has a judging panel had an easier task selecting the disabled athlete of the year as it did at the Athletics Australia awards night on Sunday.
SEVERAL of Australia's elite athletes are preparing for the extreme heat and humidity expected at the Beijing Olympics.
THE world's fastest man, Asafa Powell, is kicking off his Beijing Olympics campaign in Australia next year.
AUSTRALIAN Herb Elliott has won an international sportsmanship award, almost 50 years after he first set the world mile record.
MARION Jones's Sydney Olympic medals were stripped from the record books today, along with everything else she won in the past seven years
ATHLETICS' world ruling body could be forced to pronounce controversial Greek sprinter Ekaterini Thanou as the winner of the 2000 Olympics 100m final following Marion Jones' doping admission.
EUROPEAN pole-vault medallist Yvonne Buschbaum has announced her retirement from athletics and has hinted she will have a sex change.
THE men's 400m will continue to be a point of interest for Australian athletics at the annual Zatopek Classic meeting tonight at Olympic Park.
THE IOC is delaying reallocating five medals won by disgraced athlete Marion Jones at the Sydney Olympics for fear other athletes may be drug-tainted too.
TRACK and field selector Glynis Nunn-Cearns is believed to be willing to accept an apology that would defuse the ugly row with controversial sprinter John Steffensen.
THE world's fastest man Asafa Powell will be joined in Australia this summer by the fastest 400m runner, American Jeremy Wariner.
HURDLER Jana Rawlinson confirmed again last night that motherhood has been one of the best things to happen to her athletics career.
TEST events are the order of the day for Australia's athletes with just over nine months until the Games begin in Beijing.
WORLD 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu won her appeal today against a lifetime Olympic ban for missing doping tests.
APART from talent, track sprinters need a liberal supply of self-belief. Or, to employ the alternative term for that vital commodity, ego.
NEW technology is enabling biomechanic experts at the NSW Institute of Sport to give Josh Ross and other Olympic aspirants an edge in the countdown to the Beijing Games in August.
COMMONWEALTH 400m champion John Steffensen says it is impossible for him to make the Beijing Olympics next August after he was snubbed yesterday for pre-selection in the athletics team.
WORLD champion sprinters Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix were named today as winners of the 2007 Jesse Owens Award for the US athletes of the year.
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