Current woman world athlete of the year Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia clinched gold in her debut race while compatriot Berhanu Legese won the men's event in the Delhi Half Marathon in New Delhi on Sunday.
Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou sent explanations to the IAAF why they missed doping tests at Olympics.
The ace long jumper slipped one spot to joint eighth in the latest IAAF rankings.
Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius needs to go to jail for the killing of his 29-year-old girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day last year, a cousin of the slain model told a South African court on Thursday.
Double Olympic champion Valerie Adams feels the suspension on Russian athletes from the Rio Games is a positive step towards eradicating doping and the New Zealand shot putter has called for a life ban on drug cheats.
Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have sent explanations to the governing body of world athletics as to why they missed doping tests at the Athens Olympics in August.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi dropped his busy weekend schedule and headed to New York on Saturday for the first all-Italian women's final at the US Open.
Scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi's association with any sports body has ended as he lost the membership of the powerful Council of the International Association of Athletics Federation.
Regarded as the Oscar of sports, the nominations for 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards were finalised following a ballot by the world's sports media.
She has also booked a spot at the World Athletics Finals in Monaco scheduled for September 9-10.
Sobha Developers, a Dubai-based real estate company, will fund the ace Indian long junper's training ahead of the Athens Olympics.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Russia's Kotova Tatyana won the gold with an effort of 6.83m.
Anju Bobby George and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Arjuna award respectively.
Anju Bobby George opened her European season by finishing fourth in the Norwich Union British Grand Prix
Russia's participation in the Rio Olympics remains in the balance on Tuesday after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would 'explore legal options' for banning the country from the Games.
TUEs are issued by sports federations and national anti-doping organizations to allow athletes to take certain banned substances for verified medical needs.
The Indian lung jump ace slid a place to No. 5 in the latest IAAF rankings.
The prospect of Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt missing the Rio Olympics through injury will rightly give organisers and fans palpitations. But track and field's chief administrator, Sebastian Coe, insisted that the Summer Games were not based around one athlete, albeit acknowledging the "genius" of the six-time Olympic gold medallist. Bolt is facing a race against time to be fit in his bid for an unprecedented third treble Olympic gold with the Rio Games just four weeks away.
India's ace long jumper is striving for consistent seven metre-plus jumps this season.
The Indian ace cleared 6.61 metres and placed behind the Russian trio of Irina Simagina, Tatyana Lebedeva and Tatyana Kotova in that order.
The President said her World Athletics bronze medal will encourage more athletes to dream of similar feats.
The 26-year-old said Athens would be her next target and would put all her effort to break the Olympic medal jinx of India.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday.
The ace long jumper will carry the Indian flag in the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics.
The double world sprint champion and five other American athletes tested positive for the stimulant modafinil.
The World Athletics Championships bronze medallist said she needs to make some minor adjustments.
The double world sprint champion said she would also take part in the weekend's World Athletics Final in Monaco.
The ace Indian long jumper was robbed of all her valuables, including her passport, while training.
The top ranking also ensured Anju an automatic place in the World Athletics Final in Monaco.
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