Return of long-distance runner Craig Mottram will make his long-awaited return to big-time athletics at the Diamond League meet in Stockholm next Friday.
The 30-year-old world championship medallist has been floored by a chronic achilles tendon injury since the Beijing Olympics, where a tactical error cost him a place in the 5000m final. He made a brief return to competition at the Chiba Ekiden Relay in Japan last November, but had not been back on the track for almost two years before a couple of low-key hitouts in Europe this month.He ran his first 5000m race in Belgium two weeks ago, clocking 13:36.03, then backed up to win the 3000m at the British Milers Club meet at Watford on Wednesday in a time of 7min 50.90sec.
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Twenty-seven of Australia's Commonwealth Games team will take to the track under the banner of Asia-Pacific this weekend in Split, Croatia at the inaugural Continental Cup. 
Tyson Gay won the battle of 100m world leaders and Blanka Vlasic cleared 2.02m to highlight the 60th Anniversary edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, the final IAAF World Challenge meeting of 2010. 
Usain Bolt's life story hits the bookshops this week, but the athlete everyone is talking about right now is David Rudisha. The Kenyan improved the world 800m record twice in one week with scintillating runs in Berlin and Rieti. Aged only 21, there looks like there is more to come too. 
Despite putting two world records under his belt in seven days, world 800m holder and Africa champion David Rudisha will skip the Commonwealth Games due in Delhi next month, citing fatigue. 
Commonwealth Games 400m champion John Steffensen says he is in good shape to defend his title in New Delhi despite a limited build-up. 