January 12, 2008 - 8:33AM
One former Olympic participant is dead and the reigning marathon world champion has been wounded as the political unrest in Kenya also takes its toll on the nation's famous runners.
Many training centres have been closed,...

aturday 12 January 2008Edinburgh, Scotland - A trademark late burst of acceleration by Kenenisa Bekele secured a hat-trick of BUPA Great Edinburgh International Cross Country titles and avenged his 2007 IAAF World Cross Country defeat at the hands of Z...

Posted by Doug Binder January 11, 2008 14:49PM The new track and running web site RunnerSpace.Com was johnny-on-the-spot Wednesday night as the news about USA Track and Field CEO Craig Masbach's resignation to take a high-level job at Nike.
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This week we caught up with Nick Symmonds, Nike athlete and member of the Nike Oregon Track Club in Eugene, Oregon. In 2007, Nick burst onto the international track scene by beating some of the world’s best in The Prefontaine Classic 800 meter ra...

Jan. 12 2008
KINGSTON (AFP) — Ato Boldon, a four-time athletics Olympic medalist from Trinidad and Tobago, wants first-time doping offenders to be banned for life.
Boldon, who is visiting Jamaica, said the sport of athletics is losing its credi...

11th January 2008
A blind man is set to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.
Dave Heeley, 49, will begin his Seven Magnificent Marathons Challenge on April 7, with the aim of increasing awareness of visual impairment around the glob...