Athletics

South African official returns to IAAF Council to help Semenya case

By Duncan Mackay

September 13 - Leonard Chuene (pictured), the President of Athletics South Africa (ASA), has decided to return to the ruling Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) so that he can fight for Caster Semenya, the world 800 metres champion whose gender is under scrutiny, he revealed today.

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Paralympic star Pistorius arrested for assault

By Duncan Mackay

September 13 - South Africa's Oscar Pistorius (pictured), the four-time Paralympic gold medallist, spent last night night behind bars for allegedly assaulting a woman who had attended a gathering at his Silver Lakes house, police said today.

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South African President defends Semenya over gender doubt revelations

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

September 11 - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma today claimed that the country's world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya is being treated unfairly over it was claimed test results had found she is hermaphrodite with no womb or ovaries.

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Semenya is hermaphrodite reports claim

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

September 10 - South Africa's world 800 metres champion Semenya (pictured) is a hermaphrodite with no womb or ovaries test results have shown, it has been claimed tonight.

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Semenya has fashion make-over

By Duncan Mackay

September 8 - Caster Semenya, the controversial world 800 metres champion, has appeared in a South African magazine (pictured) in a dress, make- up, heels and jewellery.

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Radcliffe to run World Half-Marathon in Birmingham

By Duncan Mackay

September 8 - Paula Radcliffe (pictured) will pull on a British vest for the first time since last year's Olympics when she runs in the World Half-Marathon Championships in Birmingham next month, it was announced today.

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Bolt is putting the fun back into athletics says Campbell

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun

September 8 - Darren Campbell, one of Britain's most successful sprinters, has claimed that Jamaica's Usain Bolt (pictured) is "putting the fun back into athletics".

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Commonwealth Games seeking Indian sponsor for Bolt

By Duncan Mackay

September 7 - Commonwealth Games organisers are seeking an Indian sponsor to try to encourage Usain Bolt (pictured) to commit himself to the event in New Delhi next year.

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South African official quits over Semenya gender test row

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

September 7 - Leading South African official Wilfred Daniels has resigned because he claimed that the world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya (pictured) was tricked into having a gender test.

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Jamaica to review Games training camp policy before Birmingham 2012

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

September 5 - A review is to be held in how to make sure Jamaica's top athletes turn up at training camps before major championships, including in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics, when they are due to be based in Birmingham, it has been announced.

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Bolt may try to emulate Owens and Lewis at London 2012

By Duncan Mackay

September 2 - Usain Bolt (pictured) may attempt to try and emulate Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis at the London 2012 Olympics by aiming for four gold medals, he revealed today.

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Support for Semenya from Indian gender row runner

By Duncan Mackay

September 2 - Caster Semenya, South Africa's world 800 metres champion at the centre of a row over her gender, has received support from Santhi Soundarajan (pictured), an Indian runner stripped of her medal at the 2006 Asian Games in similar circumstances.

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Civil rights group claim action should be taken against ASA over Semenya row

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

September 1 - There has been a new twist in the gender row involving South Africa's world 800 metres Caster Semenya after a civil rights group claimed that Athletics South Africa (ASA) should be sanctioned because Leonard Chuene, its President, has tried to turn the affair into a racial issue.

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COLUMN: Mike Rowbottom interviews UK Athletics new Paralympics head coach Peter Eriksson

PETER ERIKSSON (pictured), the Swede poached from Canada and appointed last month as UK Athletics new Paralympic head coach, believes Britain's competitors are failing to fulfil their potential and, as he exclusively tells MIKE ROWBOTTOM, he plans to do something about it

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UK Athletics back down in Chambers row

DWAIN CHAMBERS, the original face of London 2012, will be allowed to compete in the Norwich Union World Indoor Trials in Sheffield this weekend after the sport's chief executive backed down in is row with the drugs cheat.

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