Athletics icons Mo Farah and Haile Gebrselassie are locked in a bitter dispute just days away from the London Marathon

Big crowds lined the route of London’s mass road race to cheer on 36 000 runners, may of whom wore black ribbons to honour the dead and wounded.

A beefed-up police presence for the London Marathon will remain in place despite the death and capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

South African athletes will run the London Marathon on Sunday, despite security concerns in the aftermath of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings.

Race organisers have said the London Marathon would go ahead despite the death of three people in explosions near the Boston Marathon’s finish line.

Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru committed suicide by jumping from a balcony shortly after a domestic dispute.

Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia, last year’s runner-up, won the London Marathon for the first time on Sunday to end Kenya’s six-year grip on the race.

Fresh off his ninth Boston Marathon win on Monday, South African wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk is aiming for a maiden victory at the London Marathon.