It is challenging enough to be a favourite for a race, or for an athlete to be so finely tuned to peaking at the right time to achieve a personal best. What must it be like for those favourite to win before their home crowd? 

who has been active in promoting education for young Aboriginal children since her retirement from athletics

The Cyprus Olympic Committee (COC) held a sports induction day for young refugees between the ages of 13 and 18.

a chance to try a number of sports including table tennis, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, basketball, athletics

sessions in the sports, thanks to support from five sports federations and the national football and athletics

President Dinos Michaelides.Those in attendance were able to try their hand at a number of sports including athletics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered a national anti-doping laboratory to be established at Moscow State University as the country seeks to tighten their anti-doping laws.

participation to the International Federations.Russia's Olympic team for Rio 2016 was depleted after its athletics

World Anti-Doping Agency and published in November 2015 had led to the International Association of Athletics

track and field athletes were prohibited from competing, with long jumper Darya Klishina their only athletics

Pentathlon GB will host this year's International Modern Pentathlon Federation (UIPM) World Coaches Conference from tomorrow.

medallist for Britain over 800 metres, will also speak, as well as her husband Trevor Painter, a British athletics

New Zealand's Paralympians celebrated their success at an event in the presence of the country's Prime Minister John Key.

 Double athletics champion Liam Malone was among those to attend ©Getty Images"The success that

I believe Usain Bolt will one day play for Manchester United.

I believe he will go on to play for Manchester United after his athletics career is over, as he has hinted

UK Athletics has paid tribute to two promising athletes who were knocked down and killed while on a training

due to be competing in Spain next weekend.Pygott represented Great Britain in July at the European Athletics

UK Athletics is deeply saddened to learn of the deaths of two members of the AFD," a statement from UK

Athletics said.Niels de Vos, chief executive officer of UK Athletics, also spoke on behalf of the governing

All at UK Athletics send our deepest sympathies, this is a tragedy which will be felt across the athletics

earlier today to leave flowers.Stacey Burrows and Lucy Pygott were struck while crossing a road during an athletics

Wayde van Niekerk have been announced as the three finalists for the 2016 International Association of Athletics

Athletes and officials found guilty of manipulating samples could be jailed for up to three years as part of a proposal from Russia’s State Duma aimed at combating the country’s doping problem.

the McLaren Report next month.Russia, currently still suspended by the International Association of Athletics

Five-time Paralympic gold medallist Jason Smyth will attend an international friendly football match between Northern Ireland and Croatia next week after being overlooked for a “Lap of Legends” event last month.

Ethiopian sports journalist Dagim Zinabu Tekle has been named the first male recipient of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Women and Sport World Trophy at a gala ceremony here this evening.

 The  United States' Carole Oglesby, President of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

Dodou "Capi" Joof has been elected President of the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) for the next four years.

The Gambia Athletics Association President secured 21 of the 40 votes at the GNOC Congress in Bakau,

the international sporting arena," he told The Point.Dodou "Capi" Joof is the President of the Gambia Athletics

country, which made its debut in the Olympics at Los Angeles 1984, was represented by four athletes in athletics

The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) has announced that five "legendary athletes" will be inducted into the PNG Sports Hall of Fame later this month.

five athletes have not been revealed as of yet, but it has been confirmed they come from the sports of athletics

induction ceremony in Port Moresby on November 26 ©PNGOCSir John is considered an inspirational figure in athletics

A former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) vice-president has alleged that the

American gold medal winning 4x400 metres relay team at Tokyo 1964 who later served 23 years at the world athletics

1,502 athletes were tested at the Los Angeles Games.Twelve positives were reported across the sports of athletics

Kenya’s Mary Keitany claimed her third consecutive title at the New York City Marathon today to become the first woman to achieve the feat since Norwegian Grete Waitz’s five-year winning streak between 1982 and 1986.