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Jessica Ennis battles the wind to win county javelin and shot titles
Jessica Ennis battled the Yorkshire winds at the Dorothy Hyman Stadium on Sunday to win two county championship throws titles but the 26-year-old was frustrated that the conditions did not allow her a bigger throw in the javelin. The Sheffield star is aiming to boost her rankings in the event before the Olympic Games to guarantee a place in the A-qualifying pool among the heptathlon elite; though she beat the field with a throw of 44.13 metres, a good attempt in the swirling cross winds, she had hoped to push on from her 45.66m at Cosford in April.
Justin Gatlin beats Asafa Powell in the Diamond League 100m in Doha
The men's 100m is hotting up. Justin Gatlin made his fastest-ever start to a season at the Diamond League meet on Friday night, winning in 9.87sec. The American, the 2004 Olympic champion, came back from a four-year ban for doping in 2010, and he says he is being made to feel welcome by the fans. "You have to see track and field as a soap opera with spikes on," he said after his win.
Olympic torch begins journey from ancient Olympia to London
It was a majestic moment. The clouds came and then they went and in between the sun popped out. In that moment Ino Menegaki, the highest of "high priestesses", gathered before the great stone alter of the temple of Hera, took her torch, placed it in a parabolic mirror and lit it from the sun's rays. In a second, it seemed, the Olympic flame was born. The journey to the London 2012 Games had begun.
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How watching Carl Lewis led Greg Rutherford to equal British record
After adapting his jumping style to imitate the four-times Olympic long jump champion Carl Lewis, Greg Rutherford is already feeling the difference after the 25-year-old equalled the British record with a world-leading 8.35 metres. Adding five centimetres to his previous personal best, and profiting from a strong but legal tailwind of 2.0m/s in San Diego, Rutherford equalled the mark set by British teammate Chris Tomlinson in Paris last year – but promises there is more to come.
Britain's flagship four power their way out of trouble at World Cup opener
The new British men's four came into this season as red-hot favourites to win the Olympic gold medal. And on the surface it looked like business as usual here. They opened their 2012 World Cup campaign with a one-length victory over the Czechs. And in the fast conditions, on Belgrade's Lake Sava course, the British crew's time of 5min 50.55sec was significantly quicker than the mark set by the Greek and Dutch crews, who won the other heats.
London 2012 Olympics: Champions aren't made easily, says Mohamed Sbihi
Before Trenton Oldfield decided to disrupt a rowing race as a protest against social inequality he should have studied the Team GB squad. The various crews lining up in Belgrade on Friday at the first World Cup event of this Olympic season still contain a range of Oxbridge-educated talent – but the participants inhabit a strictly elite sport, not an elitist one. "I went into it with the prejudice it was an upper-middle class, white person's sport," admits Mohamed Sbihi, the first practising Muslim to row for Britain. "I swiftly realised it wasn't."
Dwain Chambers invited to race against Usain Bolt in Czech Republic
Just days after Dwain Chambers received the all clear to compete at the Olympic Games the 34-year-old has been invited to line up against Usain Bolt at his first high profile grand prix fixture in almost a decade. Chambers will compete in a world class field of sub-10 second sprinters on 25 May at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting, in the Czech Republic, which comes under the remit of Euro Meetings – the same body who control the Diamond League and who have previously refused Chambers the opportunity to run in their competitions.
Yaya Toure is having the Usain Bolt effect on modern football
The Manchester City midfielder's athleticism is proving unrivalled in the Premier League, and his success is one of the many trends of the modern day game.
Team GB's top London 2012 wrestler Myroslav Dykun fails drug test
Great Britain's top Greco-Roman wrestler has failed a drug test. Myroslav Dykun, the Commonwealth champion in the 66kg weight category, has produced a positive A-sample. British Wrestling learned the news last weekend and is waiting for the result of his B-sample. If that produces a similar result, Dykun will face a ban and miss the Olympics.
Wada's David Howman accuses BOA of 'wasting time and money'
The British Olympic Association has been accused of "wasting a lot of time and money" by the World Anti-Doping Agency after its failed court case to keep its lifetime ban for drugs cheats.
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