Since taking the 100m silver medal at the 2008 Olympics, Trinidad and Tobago s Richard Thompson has been consistently among the top sprinters in the world. We talk to the national record-holder about his best things on and off the track.

Garrett Heath claimed victory at the USATF Club Cross Country National Championships staged in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday (12).

Sifan Hassan and Ali Kaya delivered dominant performances to win the senior titles at the European Cross Country Championships in the French town of Hyeres on Sunday (13).

Of the seven starters at the Australian 50km Road Walking Championships in Melbourne on Saturday (12), the aim for most of them was to achieve the Olympic qualifying standard. But a trio of athletes achieved more than that.

Ethiopian running is very poor right now,” says the taxi driver when asked to drive to the Ethiopian Athletics Federation offices.

Germany s 2013 world champion Raphael Holzdeppe will take on Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie in the pole vault at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on 6 February, the first IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting of 2016.