“We definitely don’t mess around,” smiles Martyn Rooney, happily aware of the grueling necessities of readying his body to compete at the very summit of world athletics. “There are no gimmicks, we just go out there and work as hard as we can.
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The British Olympic Association is deciding this week whether to revise its policy of imposing lifetime Olympic bans on athletes convicted of drug offences.
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*Chris Tomlinson, Britain’s leading long-jumper, has warned his rivals that he will be at his very best at next summer’s Olympic Games after suffering injury heartache at the final of the World Championships in September. *   Tomlinson was in impressive form heading into the event at Daegu.
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UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee is hopeful he can take Dwain Chambers to London 2012 as part of the sprint relay team, despite the athlete’s lifetime Olympic ban for serious doping offences. Chambers missed out on competing in Beijing four years ago after his bid to overturn the ruling was unsuccessful.
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Great Britain’s top endurance runner Mo Farah has been named European Athletics Association’s European Athlete of the Year for 2011. The 28-year-old beat French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre and British 400-metre hurdles World Champion Dai Greene to the award which is voted for by fans, media and European Athletics Member Federations.
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Athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie has been announced as an official bid ambassador and member of the Athlete Commission for London's bid to host the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championship.
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As two-time Olympian and European Indoor 3000m champion Helen Clitheroe recounts the most successful season of her career, she unknowingly presents a strong case to UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee that her Lottery funding should be reinstated.
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The BOA (British Olympic Association) have today confirmed that Ben Ainslie will be one of the first athletes to be selected to be part of Team GB for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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Although his precious aspiration of running the marathon at the 2012 Paralympic Games seems to have slipped away from Richard Whitehead, the Nottingham athlete is unwavering in his desire to make an inspiring impact in London.
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As the World Athletics Championships get under way in Deagu, South Korea this weekend, Britain’s distance runner Mo Farah will face the biggest challenge of his career to date, as he competes against Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele in the final of the 10,000m.
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In an unprecedented move ahead of the World Championships, the sports governing body, the IAAF have announced that almost 2,000 athletes face blood tests in an anti-doping programme.
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Mo Farah won the 5,000m at the UK Atheltics trials to qualify for the World Championships but then announced he would only be running the 10,000m in Daegu.   The double European champion, who won in 14 minutes, 0.
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British skeleton racer Kristan Bromley and British Olympic athlete Shelly Rudman share their honeymoon plans with sportsvibe. Saucy language censored to protect the innocent.
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The long, flowing blonde hair is now short and as grey as his pallor but the man serving customers in a small, equestrian shop in the Auckland suburb of Newmarket is still instantly recognisable as one of the greatest middle-distance runners of all time.
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