Two years ago Toowoomba’s Patrick Tiernan defied the odds to finish the 10,000m Tokyo Olympics final after two brutal race falls. The long distance runner has gone from strength to strength since then and now has his sights set on a coveted race win.
Disgraced former Olympian Oscar Pistorius could face chilling revenge attacks from gangsters after he’s released from prison.
Peter Bol was put through hell earlier this year when he was provisionally suspended for a purported failed drug test, before being cleared. The man himself says he wouldn’t change anything.
Sprinter Rohan Browning has ticked off a key milestone ahead of a huge Olympic campaign, and he says the timing couldn’t be better.
IT wouldn’t be classified as a scare but Usain Bolt did have to overcome a horrible start in the opening race of his grand farewell at the World Championships.
RETIRING British superstar Mo Farah has now won 10 consecutive global track distance titles — and will chase No. 11 in the 5000m later in the week.
STEVE Solomon is in awe of 2016 Rio Olympic 400m gold medallist Wayde van Niekerk, but that goes out the window when he takes on the South African at the London world championships.
SHE ticked off racing against Usain Bolt earlier in the year and now schoolgirl sprint star Riley Day can cross off another bucket list item.
SALLY Pearson posted her second fastest time of the season at the Diamond League meet in Monaco, while Usain Bolt claimed a routine win on his farewell tour.
SCHOOLGIRL Isis Holt was surprised when she won her first world title this week. Now the teen is “over the moon” after picking up another – along with a world record.
MAT Belcher has become Australia’s most successful Olympic class skipper in history with his seventh world crown after a sensational comeback at the world 470 titles in Greece.
SALLY Pearson has returned to the scene of her greatest triumph to breathe life into her world championship campaign with a blistering run at the London Diamond meet.
HE SMASHED the mark, but Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge’s amazing marathon run will not be counted as a world record.
THE Australian Olympic Committee will elect a president, vice president and board on Saturday morning using an exhaustive voting system. HERE’S HOW
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