Inside Athletics

26 August 2012 – Birmingham, UK - Highlights of the Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix, the 12th leg of the Samsung Diamond League, were Carmelita Jeter beating Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m in 10.81 while Aries Merritt once again dipped under 13 seconds in the 110m Hurdles....

19 August 2012 - Lausanne, Switzerland - Provisional entry lists for Thursday's (23 August) Athletissima 2012 meeting in Lausanne, the 11th stop of the 2012 Samsung Diamond League series, are now available....

17 August 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden – Yuliya Zaripova’s world season leading performance in the women’s 3000m Steeplechase was one of three stadium records to fall at the 46th DN Galan tonight, the tenth stop of the 2012 Samsung Diamond League series....

16 August 2012 - Stockholm, Sweden - Tomorrow night (17), the Swedish capital will host the 46th edition of the world famous DN Galan meeting, the 10th of this summer’s series of 14 Samsung Diamond League meetings. And if ever there was an historic moment to experience athletics in Stockholm this is surely it....

12 August 2012 - London, UK - He looks like a Kenyan, he sounds like a Kenyan, he runs like a Kenyan, and he trains in Kenya, with Kenyans. But Stephen Kiprotich is taking the Olympic Marathon gold medal back to Uganda....

Mo Farah says he may target the marathon after winning double gold on the track at the 2012 Olympics....

Christian Taylor of the United States takes Olympic triple jump gold with the biggest leap in the world this year....

Usain Bolt declared himself "the greatest athlete" ever to have lived after sealing an Olympic sprint double....

Very different off the track, Usain Bolt and David Rudisha are both all-time athletics greats, writes BBC chief sports writer Tom Fordyce...

9 August 2012 - London, UK - In what may go down in history as the finest performance ever at an Olympic Games, David Rudisha broke his own World record in the 800m clocking 1:40.91* tonight before another capacity crowd at the Olympic Stadium....

Jamaican 100m runner Asafa Powell will not take part in the Olympic 4x100m relay or run again in 2012 because of a thigh injury....

Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi wins the 1500m to secure the first Olympic gold medal of his career....

7 August 2012 – London, UK - Robert Harting was Germany’s best gold medal bet and he delivered, ending a long wait for a German Olympic champion in athletics. It was already twelve years ago that this traditional athletics nation had last produced an Olympic champion: In Sydney 2000 Nils Schumann took the 800 metres and Heike Drechsler won the Lon...

18 August 2012 - London, UK - She wanted and expected gold in London. As did the entire Australian nation. Other than that, there was no pressure on Sally Pearson to win the Olympic 100m hurdles title – which she did, in characteristic, impeccable style, earning her country’s first track and field gold of the Games in the process....

World champion Kirani James wins Grenada's first ever Olympic gold medal with a stunning 400m victory at London 2012....

Nadzeya Ostapchuk shocks world and Olympic champion Valerie Adams to win the women's shot put....

Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi has been reinstated to the Olympics after being excluded for not trying in the 800m...

London, UK - Yelena Isinbayeva lost her first Olympic Pole Vault final for twelve years, Valerie Adams was defeated in the Shot Put for the first time since 2005 in a major outdoor championships, Javier Culson's 2012 winning streak came to an end in the 400m Hurdles, and the US presence in the men's 400m was non-existent....

Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford rewrote the record books in what was Great British athletics' finest hour, says chief sports writer Tom Fordyce...

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica sees off the challenge of American Carmelita Jeter to retain her Olympic 100m title in London....