World and Olympic triple gold medallist Usain Bolt gets his 100-metre season under way on Wednesday and has promised a "very fast time".
Caster Semenya has pencilled June 24 as the date for her return to the track, after almost a year on the sidelines following her gender controversy.
Caster Semenya’s lawyers say they will do whatever is necessary to ensure the world 800m champion can compete without restriction this season.
Former New York marathon champion Hendrick Ramaala wants to take over as the head of Athletics South Africa (ASA) when a new board is elected.
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/ 15 January 2010
After some confusion Sascoc has made it clear that athlete Caster Semenya can’t compete locally until a final decisions is made on her gender tests.
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/ 8 December 2009
Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt is no ”superman” and can be beaten, his compatriot and rival Asafa Powell insisted on Tuesday.
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/ 20 November 2009
Athletics bosses have, over the years, been involved in boardroom fights and have forgotten to pay tribute to South Africa’s greatest athletes.
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/ 18 November 2009
Bahrain’s Olympic 1Â 500 metres champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal for doping at the Beijing 2008 Games.
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/ 30 October 2009
Claims that financing has been withheld from ASA have been vehemently denied by Sascoc, writes Glynnis Underhill.
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/ 10 September 2009
South Africa’s women’s 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya will learn her fate in November, following gender testing by the IAAF.
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/ 9 September 2009
While the debate on her gender rages, Caster Semenya is putting it all behind her and will be returning to action this weekend.
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/ 8 September 2009
Athletics SA denied a report on Tuesday that gold medallist Caster Semenya and other contracted athletes had not been paid their allowances.
South Africa’s medal return at the recent World Swimming and Athletics Championships are proof the country is on the right road to the next Olympics.
Thousands of people welcomed athlete Caster Semenya on her return to Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Years passed between Carl Lewis setting a new 100m record in 1991 and Usain Bolt going faster in 2008, but the Jamaican has now reduced the record.
If the IAAF had doubt about 800m golden girl Caster Semenya’s gender it could have tested her months ago.
The ANC on Thursday anointed new 800m world champion Caster Semenya as the nation’s ”golden girl” while condemning speculation on her gender.
Kenyan teamwork put paid to Ruben Ramolefi and South African hopes in the 3000m steeplechase final at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
Usain Bolt proved lightning does strike twice on Sunday as he smashed his own 100m world record at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
SA athletes competing in the World Athletics Championships are keen to make up for the disappointment of Beijing.
Usain Bolt says it will take a bad day on the track for his rival, Tyson Gay, to get the better of him over 100m this year.
Four months after he stunned the South African sporting community sprint star, Simon Magakwe, is heading for the world championship in Berlin.
Khotso Mokoena, continued his world class form on the tracks of Europe at the 2009 Athletissima Super Grand Prix in Lausanne on Tuesday night.
In just two weeks life has changed dramatically for Simon Magakwe, who emerged from nowhere to become SA’s new sprint king.
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/ 12 September 2008
Had Usain Bolt not begun his celebrations 20m before the finish of the Olympic 100m final, he may have smashed his record by a further 0,14 seconds.
Long jumper Khotso Mokoena grabbed SA’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics when he won silver in his event with a jump of 8,24m on Monday.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the men’s Olympic 100m in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record in 9,69 seconds.
World-record holder Usain Bolt scorched into the men’s 100m final of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, but Tyson Gay crashed out.
Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday’s showpiece, the athletics’ men’s 100m final.
Former record holder Asafa Powell says Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay will not run him down if he takes the lead in their anticipated Olympic 100m clash.
Lucky Sindane assesses which South Africans have the potential to bring medals home.
Beijing Games organisers will be hoping that competitors in the blue-riband event of athletics can dispel the sordid spectre of doping.