Former international athlete, Ajayi Agbebaku has urged Nigerian sports officials to turn back the hands of the clock and embrace school sports.

Despite winning the women's shot put event of the 19th Mobil Track and Field Championship in Abuja last week, Vivian Chukwuemeka says her best is yet to come.

EDINBURGH'S Lynsey Sharp suffered premature birthday heartache last night when she missed out on the final of the 800m at the World Junior athletics championships in Pola

Although Kenyans have enjoyed middle-distance and marathon dominance, to date none has won a marathon gold at the Olympics.

Africa 3,000 metres steeplechase champion, Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong, has tipped Kenya to continue with its tradition of winning the 3,000m steeplechase title at the Beijing Olympics.

Nelly Chebet won Kenya's first medal at the World Junior Championships in Poland when she finished third behind Ethiopian experienced pair of Sule Utura and Genzabe Dibaba in the 5,000m.

She missed the World Youth Championship gold last year, but Japan-based Christine Kambua Muyanga is ready to make up for the loss and get herself a major silverware when she competes in Thursday's women's 3,000m steeplechase race at the Zdzislaw

Stephen Kiprotich's missed both a junior individual medal and qualification for the Beijing Olympic Games after finishing fifth in a tactical World Junior Championships 10000m final in Polish city Bydgoscsz yesterday.

Kigoma track and field teams are back in the national championships after 30 years, having made their last appearance in 1977 at the Kambarage Stadium in Shinyanga.

Ajayi Agbebaku, former Nigerian triple jumper, is sad that 25 years after he set a national record of 17.26m in the event no athlete, living or dead has been able to match the feat.

Russian Athletics News. Yaroslav Rybakov placed second in the men's high jump at yesterday's athletics meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece. He cleared 2.30m, and the winner was Stefan Holm of Sweden with 2.32m. Kseniya Zadorina finished second in the women's 400m

GOLD medal contender Jana Rawlinson has been forced to withdraw from the Beijing Olympics through injury, just hours after being named in the Australia squad for next month&#3

LYNSEY Sharp regained her composure after a disappointing start in the 800 metres semi-final at the World Junior Championships, but still missed out on qualification for the

ASHIA Hansen, Britain's former triple jump world champion, has retired after losing her battle to be fit for the Olympics.

SCOTLAND'S ten Olympians will all be competing at the ASA National Championships starting this evening in Liverpool, and it will be the final competitive swim before the G

JULIA Bracewell, who was effectively sacked as chairwoman of Sportscotland when the organisation was merged with the Scottish Institute of Sport earlier this year, will play h

DWAIN Chambers faces a double trial in his bid to compete in next month's Olympic Games in Beijing.