BOSTON — Allen Johnson is trying to overcome a series of injuries to make one more Olympic team at age 37.
Twenty-five-year-old Lolo Jones is aiming for Beijing after rebounding from a disappointing 2004 Olympic trials.
Both will run the 60-meter hurdles over the weekend, races expected to be among the most hotly contested events in this […]

Carolina Kluft has pulled out of the Swedish team for the IAAF World Indoor pentathlon competition in a fortnight’s time due to a hamstring injury.
Kluft, whose only world indoor gold medal success came at the 2003 championships in Birmingham, became aware of the problem when warming up for Thursday night’s GE Galan meeting in Stockholm.
The […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jake Arnold of Arizona capped his college career with his second NCAA decathlon championship. Heptathlon favorite Diana Pickler of Washington State will leave school without even one.
Arnold pulled away in the second day of the 10-event competition to become the first athlete in 22 years to repeat as decathlon champion in the […]

FOLLOWING her fine Scottish Native Record 1000 metres run in Glasgow last Sunday, Capital-based Scottish middle-distance star Joanna Ross has her first outing of the season over her best distance - the 800m - in Manchester at tomorrow night’s British Milers Club meeting.
Ross joins stable-mate Mark Mitchell, now also being coached by John Lees, at […]

European Indoor 400m silver medallist Bastian Swillims and his German team mate Arne Gabius set new European Leading performances at the 10th Askina International Meeting in Kassel, Germany yesterday to kick start the German challenge for Spar European Cup honours in Munich in two weeks .
Swillims ran a new Personal Best of 45.72 to […]

OLYMPIC 2012 supremo Lord Coe has poured scorn on sprinter Dwain Chambers’ claims that it is almost impossible to reach the top in athletics without using drugs.
Chambers, who was banned for two years in February 2004 after testing positive for the banned steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) the previous year, has put his track career on hold […]