Jones-Ferrette shocks with 6.97 dash in Stuttgart
The big eye-opener of the programme came from Laverne Jones-Ferrette, who sped down the outside lane of the sprint apron to a world-leading 6.97 in the women?s 60m, the first sub-7.00 run in more than a decade. Not since Ekaterini Thanou won the 1999 World Indoor Championships in Maebashi with 6.96 has the distance been covered as fast. In all, only five others have covered the distance faster.Click here to read the article
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. 