The death of Olympic long jump bronze medallist Herb Douglas at the age of 101 has severed one of very few remaining links with the 1948 London Games. 

In years to come, people may be forgiven for wondering if the excuse made by New Zealand's Kenyan-based distance runner Zane Robertson to explain a positive test for EPO was a sporting myth.

There is nothing like a good dollop of nostalgia to start a sporting argument. We have been wallowing in it since Pelé passed away and the healthy debate universally concludes that he is the greatest player who ever kicked a football.

The Olympic silver medal won by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Games in Berlin, has been sold at auction for nearly half-a-million dollars.

The silver medal won by home long jumper Luz Long behind Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is being auctioned for an expected price of $1 million (£900,000/€1.02 million).

From time to time athletics witnesses landmark contests where more than one competitor betters an existing world record. Thirty years ago tomorrow (August 30) it happened in the long jump at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, when Mike Powell and Carl Lewis took the long jump to new lengths.

Dark as is the cloud of the pandemic, there have been silver linings in the world of sport - not least for the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) that launched today.

Eighty-five years ago today there took place one of the great feats in athletics, and sporting, history as Jesse Owens broke five world records and equalled a sixth in the space of 45 minutes.

One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin has sold for $615,000 (£468,000/€556,000) at auction.

One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is up for auction.

Amy Van Dyken is to receive the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's (USOPC) Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Heritage Legends Reception that took place in Monaco on Sunday (December 2) evening was, essentially, a devotional event.

Legendary track and field performers Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zatopek are among a dozen athletes being honoured here as the first recipients of a scheme to mark their deeds with commemorative plaques.

Berlin's historic Olympic Stadium is playing its part this week in the staging of the first multi-event European Championships. While Glasgow is hosting aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon until August 12, the athletics is about to take place in the cavernous arena originally built for the 1936 Olympics.

On Monday (March 5) this week an Olympic flag, together with a letter from the President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, was presented to Lady Holly Knowles at the Ebenezer Methodist Church in Nassau to honour her husband.