Athletics

Williams heads list of promising youngsters to get UK Athletics funding boost

By Duncan Mackay

December 7 - Double world youth champion Jodie Williams (pictured) is among more than 40 young athletes who will be supported by the UK Athletics Futures Programme it was announced today.

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USATF budget increased by 40 per cent to $21 million

By Duncan Mackay

December 6 - USA Track and Field (USATF) has announced a $21 million (£13 million) budget for next year, a 40 per cent increase over 2009 thanks largely to a new marketing deal with Nike.

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Conte claims Jones still has not faced up to her drug past

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

December 6 - Marion Jones, who last week announced that she hopes to make a comeback to sport by playing professional basketball, has still not faced up to her drug-fuelled past, Victor Conte (pictured) has told insidethegames.

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Ennis set to miss Commonwealth Games in New Delhi

By Duncan Mackay

December 3 - New Delhi organisers suffered another blow today when Jessica Ennis (pictured), Britain's world heptathlon champion, said she is unlikely to compete in next year's Commonwealth Games.

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Dame Kelly is Britain's favourite female athlete of last 25 years

By Duncan Mackay

By Mike Rowbottom

December 3 - Dame Kelly Holmes (pictured) is Britain’s favourite sportswoman of the past 25 years, according to a poll conducted by the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF).

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Champions to defend London Marathon titles next year

By Duncan Mackay

December 2 - Reigning champions Sammy Wanjiru and Irina Mikitenko (pictured) will return to defend their Virgin London Marathon titles next April against two of the strongest fields ever assembled in the 29-year history of the race.

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UK Athletics sign new deal with Jaegar

By Duncan Mackay

December 1 - UK Athletics have announced a four-year partnership with Jaeger, the iconic British fashion brand.

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Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones planning a comeback

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

December 1 - Marion Jones (pictured), the disgraced former sprinter sent to prison for lying, plans to return to professional sport and hopes to sign a contract to play in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), she announced today.

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Red-face for Commonwealth Games chief as Bolt denies he will definitely be there

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

December 1 - Indian Commonwealth Games officials were today embarrassed when Usain Bolt (pictured) denied he had promised to compete at next year's event in New Delhi after they had assured Commonwealth leaders he would be there.

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Exclusive: Jones medals should not be reallocated says Conte

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in Lausanne

December 9 - Victor Conte (pictured), the architect of the biggest doping scandal in history, has hit out at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to award medals from the 2000 Games in Sydney to women beaten by Marion Jones.

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Jamaican rebels to avoid disciplinary action

By Duncan Mackay

November 29 - A disciplinary panel has decided that Jamaican star Asafa Powell (pictured) and five others would not be punished further for skipping a training camp in Germany on the eve of this year's World Championships.

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South African athletics must focus on London 2012 says Mali

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in Johannesburg

November 28 - South African athletics must put the Caster Semenya scandal and the subsequent fall-out behind it and start looking looking forward to the London 2012 Olympics, the sport's new temporary leader Ray Mali (pictured) said here today.

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IAAF to take Russian drug cases to CAS

By Duncan Mackay

November 27 - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said today it had lodged an appeal seeking harsher doping bans on seven Russian female athletes, including two-times world 1500 metres champion Tatyana Tomashova (pictured), at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.

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Johnson quits Strictly Come Dancing

By Duncan Mackay

November 21 - Jade Johnson (pictured), the 2002 European and Commonwealth Games long jump silver medallist, was tonight forced to pull-out of Strictly Come Dancing because she does not want to jeopardise her chances of competing at the London 2012 Olympics.

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ASA living from month-to-month admits Mali

By Duncan Mackay

November 21 - Ray Mali (pictured), the acting President of Athletics South Africa (ASA), has admitted that the organisation's finances are in a perilous state and that auditors have been brought in to examine the situation.

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