USA s Tianna Bartoletta, who arrived in Stockholm with the top four women s long jumps of 2014 to her credit, announced on the eve of this IAAF Diamond League meeting that she was competitive about everything, including who can load the dishwasher fas...

Before the 2014 athletics season, Jaheel Hyde posted a picture on the social media outlet Instagram with the words look out, greatness is coming.”

Renaud Lavillenie s winning run of 22 pole vault competitions came to an abrupt and unexpected end at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm s 1912 Olympic Stadium as he failed to clear a height on Thursday (21).

A book which will very soon be recognised as the athletics volume of the century,” so wrote Harold Abrahams in his foreword to Robert Quercetani s first world history of modern athletics, published in 1964.

USA s 2011 world champion Jennifer Simpson produced one of the performances of the night to win a brutally hard, talent-stacked women s 1500m in cold and damp conditions at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Thursday (21).

The first major milestone in the promotion campaign for the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 took place today in the shadow of the Bird s Nest with a dramatic ‘one year to go ceremony, attended by the mayor of Beijing Wang Anshun, China s ...