Caster Semenya underlined her status as one of the most dominant two-lap runners in history by matching her Olympic gold medal here on the final night of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.

If I might coin a phrase, there have been too many losers at the World Athletics Championships - for some people.

Usain Bolt rose to the challenge as so often before tonight here at the eleventh International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting of the season as he won the 100 metres in 9.95sec to register his first sub-10 seconds timing of 2017 nicely in time for what will be his final major appearance in London next month.

Usain Bolt, hoping to bow out in a blaze of golden glory at next month's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, tops the bill in tomorrow night’s 30th anniversary Herculis meeting in Monaco - the 11th IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season. 

World and Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will step down a distance to take on the Olympic 400m gold medallist Shaunae Miller-Uibo at the tenth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season in Rabat tomorrow. 

Caster Semenya and other athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone may need to return to taking suppressant medication after a new study has found that they could have a competitive advantage of up to 4.5 per cent over some of their rivals.

Organisers of tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo have broken with long tradition by according a men’s under-20 race the status of Dream Mile in order to showcase the prodigious talent of home runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

Russian 800 metres runner Mariya Savinova has launched an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after she was stripped of her Olympic Games gold medal from London 2012 and banned for four years.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has reiterated the organisation's desire to be successful in challenging the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) suspension of a ruling which halted the monitoring of female athletes with higher than usual levels of testosterone.

Russian 800 metres runner Mariya Savinova has been stripped of her London 2012 Olympic gold medal and banned for four years for doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Britain’s Mo Farah matched what was once the unique feat of Finland’s Lasse Viren here as he completed his second successive 5,000 and 10,000 metres double at the Olympics with victory at the shorter distance on a final night here when individual track golds also went, surprisingly, to Matt Centrowitz of the United States in the men’s 1500m and, inevitably, to South Africa’s Caster Semenya in the women’s 800m.

It is a straightforward enough template: Usain Bolt, triple Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion. 

Will the Rio 2016 athletics programme, which gets underway tomorrow, become part of the Usain Bolt Narrative in the way that Beijing and London have already been?

As South Africa’s Caster Semenya heads towards what could be a controversial victory in the women’s 800m final at these Olympic Games,International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has underlined his organisation’s intention to challenge the ruling which suspended the monitoring of female athletes with higher than usual levels of testosterone.