Carolina Kluft achieved what no heptathlete had managed and won her third successive world title with the highest score of her career.
Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell raced through stifling Japanese temperatures to ease towards their much-anticipated 100m showdown.
The two fastest 100 metres sprinters, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, could race in Jamaica later this month.
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Hima Das is nearing her best, having won five successive gold medals in three weeks in Europe.
Amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, known as the world's "fastest man on no legs", is understandably nervous ahead of his first race abroad against able-bodied athletes, due to take place in Rome on Friday.
The Jamaican clocked 9.98 seconds into a slight breeze at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in front of a 20,000 crowd on a new track laid down the side of the infield.
World champion Tom Boonen stepped off his bike 59 km from the finish of the 15th stage over 187 km from Gap to l'Alpe d'Huez.
In a desperate bid to get his life back on track, convicted Paralympics runner Oscar Pistorius has reportedly expressed his interest in assisting disadvantaged children if he is released on parole as early as August.
Sprinter Dwain Chambers won a silver medal in the world indoor championships on Friday, finishing second behind Nigeria's Olusoji Fasuba and level with Kim Collins of St Kitts. The 29-year-old, who is trying to resurrect his athletics career following a two-year doping ban imposed in 2003, clocked a personal best time of 6.54 seconds, the same as Collins who was also awarded silver and three hundredths behind Fasuba.
India began their campaign in the World Athletics Championships on a disappointing note with sprinter Dutee Chand and quartermiler Muhammed Anas Yahiya crashing out in the first round heats in London on Saturday.
Gay's reduced ban sends wrong message, says Bolt.
Top Indian sprinter Dutee Chand on Friday smashed her own national record in the women's 100m dash on the fourth and final day of the 58th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships in Guwahati to establish herself as a gold medal contender in the upcoming Asian Games.
Usain Bolt ran under 10 seconds for the first time this year as he narrowly won the 100 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Usain Bolt, who shattered the world record each time to capture Olympic gold in the 100 metres, 200 and 4x100 relay, dismissed speculation his sudden rise to supremacy was aided by doping.
Jamaica's former world 100 meters record holder Asafa Powell tested positive for a stimulant at last month's national championships, his agent said.
German Marcel Kittel was once again a cut above as he claimed his fifth victory in this year's Tour de France, winning the 11th stage in emphatic style on Wednesday.
German Marcel Kittel claimed his fourth victory in this year's Tour de France when he powered to an impressive Stage 10 win in a bunch sprint on Tuesday as Briton Chris Froome retained the overall lead.
Three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments and down to a bank balance of about $2,000.
The Norwegian sprinter confessed to using the male sex hormone testosterone.
Sprinter Dwain Chambers has been stripped of his 2002 European 100 metres title after admitting he took the steroid THG that year.
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Chris Xuereb, the masseur and fitness advisor of Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, has denied providing the two Jamaican sprinters with performance-enhancing drugs and said they should take responsibility for their failed dope tests.
Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall on Monday became the third athlete to confirm a positive drugs test from the Jamaican trials in June following Sunday's revelations by sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson.
The Jamaican blamed cold weather rather than a restart for failing to break his 100 metres world record.
'The Centre should take the matter seriously and ensure creating an opportunity to Srabani Nanda and Amiya Mallick to participate in the Rio Olympics'
2019 became a 'Year to Remember' in Indian sports for trailblazing performances in Olympic disciplines
The year-long suffering she faced following the controversial "gender test" in 2014 has hurt promising sprinter Dutee Chand so much so that she still feels that she may get trapped and her resurrected career may be in ruins again. Two years ago, Chand's dreams of representing her country at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games came crashing when an indefinite ban was imposed on her, barring her from taking part in women's competitions due to her higher levels of testosterone (hormones primarily produced by male). Dutee fought the case at the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Switzerland which upheld her appeal, citing no clear cut link with higher levels of these hormones with enhancement in performance. She returned to competitions last year and broke the national record in 100m dash recently. "I'm not able to trust anyone. I am scared that I might get trapped again. I hardly have any friends," Dutee told reporters on the sidelines of the GAIL Indian Speedstar event. "I prefer to train alone at SAI camp in Hyderabad. I don't train at national camp at NIS Patiala. Some of the 4x400 relay members don't like me," she added.
World 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin said on Tuesday he is "shocked and surprised" at doping allegations made against his coach Dennis Mitchell, like Gatlin a convicted doper, but added that he sacked him as soon as he heard about the issue.
It was Gatlin's second positive test, which under anti-doping rules could have resulted in a life ban.
The delay was because the board had been unable to finalise all its cases on Friday, when it had been due to meet to decide if Pistorius should be freed on parole or serve a longer period in jail, local television station 'ENCA' reported.
Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell and US sprinter Sanya Richards were voted best by Track & Field News magazine.
The fastest man on earth Usain Bolt arrived at Bangalore International Airport to make his date with India on Tuesday as he features in a friendly cricket match with India's star players Yuvraj Singh and Zaheer Khan.
Multiple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt has described the unveiling of his statue in front of Kingston's National Stadium as one of the greatest moments of his career.
'I could not believe that the prime minister knew me.'
Polish hammer thrower, Anita Wlodarczyk, who set a world record, has been voted women's athlete of the year by an American publication.
Ace sprinter Dutee Chand said the gold was an answer to her critics, who had written her off after her admission of same-sex relationship.
Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt expects an onset of nerves when he makes his debut for Australia's Central Coast Mariners against an amateur side on Friday and says he is still short of fitness and struggling with the speed of the game.
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