Sports Shorts: Tokyo 2020 marathon to end with gruelling incline

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday. IMAGE: Tokyo marathon in 2018. Photograph: Tokyo Marathon Foundation/Twitter The route for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics marathon......

Sports Shorts: Olympic high jumper Mason dies in motorbike crash

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Britain's high jumper and Olympian Germaine Mason. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters/File High jump star Germaine......

Jamaican sprinter Carter files CAS appeal

Embattled Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) after he was retroactively found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his lawyer......

Bolt and Jamaica team-mates ordered to return relay medals

IMAGE: Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates . Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images. Usain Bolt and his Jamaican team mates who won the 4 x 100m relay at the 2008 Beijing Games have been told by the......

Bolt stripped of Beijing Olympic gold after relay teammate Carter tests positive

IMAGE: Gold medalists (left to right) Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell of Jamaica pose during the medal ceremony for the men's 4 x 100m relay final of the athletics......