Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 metres in a hot 9.86 seconds.
Images from the Diamond League Finals at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Friday.
Images from the Weltklasse Diamond League athletics meeting at the Letzigrund Stadium, in Zurich, on Thursday.
Kenyan Beatrice Chebet shattered the women's 10,000 metres world record at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday, as Britain's Josh Kerr beat arch-rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the mile race at the Eugene Diamond League meet.
American Aleia Hobbs won the women's 100 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, beating Jamaica's Shericka Jackson in a photo finish on Friday.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the women's mile World record, while compatriot Ferdinand Omanyala won the men's 100 metres in a photo finish at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Images from the athletics action at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, on Friday.
A summary of Friday night's action in the season-opening leg of the Diamond League in Doha on Friday.
British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, a triple European gold medallist, would like to raise the profile of female athletes and believes the best way of doing that is to have more women telling the story.
American duo Gabby Thomas and Noah Lyles took impressive 200 metres victories and two men posted monster, wind-assisted 90 metre javelin throws as the Diamond League season got underway on a lively night in front of a noisy crowd in Doha on Friday.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, Day 7.
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The 32-year-old double Olympic champion made a blistering start to dominate the race from start to finish, giving Asher-Smith (10.92) and Ta Lou (10.98) no chance of catching her.
Kenya's marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and Colombian jumper Caterine Ibarguen were honoured as IAAF athletes of the year at athletics' annual awards ceremony on Tuesday.
Elaine Thompson-Herah, the only one of Jamaica's "Big Three" women to show up at the Commonwealth Games, was rewarded with the 100 metres gold medal on Wednesday, while Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala powered to the men's title.
The defending Olympic champion Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a scorching 10.82 to advance and she almost slowed towards the finish line. She was all smiles and thumbs up after a performance that made a clear statement of intent that she was not yet ready to relinquish her title.
French Tennis Federation (FFT) President Gilles Moretton described Osaka's action as a "phenomenal mistake".
The 27-year-old Annu sent the iron spear to a distance of 62.43m in her second round throw, bettering her earlier national record of 62.34m, which she achieved in March, to book a place for Tuesday's final.
Ben Stokes, who played a few memorable knocks this year, especially at the ICC World Cup final and then powering England to victory at Headingley in the Ashes, beat Lewis Hamilton, Raheem Sterling among others to win the coveted crown.
Allyson Felix became the first woman to collect five athletics gold medals.
Perhaps it says something more deep and profound about the time we live in and how it has shaped us, observes Aakar Patel.
Dina Asher-Smith seized her golden opportunity to win the World Championship 200 metres on Wednesday and become the first British woman to claim a global sprint title.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Day 9.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Tuesday, Day 5.
Russian athletics was back on top of the medal table at the European Indoor Championships.
Images from the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, Day 3, in Oregon.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, Day 8.
The race to find the continent's fastest woman saw Asher-Smith end the 100m reign of Dutchwoman Daphne Schippers in brilliant style, clocking 10.85, equalling the world's fastest time this year and setting a British record.
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powered her way to 100 metres gold on Sunday to become the first person to win four gold medals over the distance at the athletics world championships.
American Noah Lyles shot to 200 meters world championships gold on Tuesday, providing a bright finish to a day darkened by yet another doping scandal.
The 20-year-old Indian, who was competing in the season's Diamond League Series Finale just three days after winning Asian Games gold in Jakarta, sent the spear to a best distance of 85.73m to end at fourth position in the eight-man event.
The bespectacled, tattooed 28-year-old, whose world championship triumphs have gone hand in hand with Olympic calamities, completed a hammer double for Poland after Anita Wlodarczyk's equally conclusive triumph in the women's event.
A summary of Thursday's events at the World Athletics Championships.
Images from Thursday's proceedings at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Images from Saturday's proceedings at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Hansle Parchment of Jamaica was second in 13.03 and Olympic champion and world record holder Aries Merritt claimed bronze in 13.04 seconds.
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