NEW YORK — United States Olympian and national marathon record-holder Deena Kastor is pregnant and will not run the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 7, 2010. The announcement was made jointly by Kastor’s management company and New York Road Runners.

The third son of marathon and ekiden legend Toshihiko Seko (54), Tokai Prep Urayasu H.S. senior Tenri Seko (18) ran the 800 m at the 2010 National High School Track and Field Championships July 31st on Amami island. The younger Seko ran 1:57.10, finishing 3rd in his heat. After the race he revealed that next year he will attend Tokai University where his goal is to make the school's Hakone Ekiden squad.

Australia’s most promising junior distance runners will come together in Melbourne this weekend, Athletics Australia playing host to the athletes from across the country as part of a four day camp.

Haile Gebrselassie will honour a promise he made a decade ago and compete at the 30th staging of the Bupa Great North Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in September.

Led by Kaori Yoshida's 2:31:33 victory, Japanese women took four of the top five places in the marathon while Japanese men took seven of the top ten places in the half marathon.

Spanish athlete Sergio Sanchez enjoyed a breakthrough indoor season, setting European indoor records over 2000m and 3000m as well as winning a 3000m silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha. In the latest “Big Interview” European Athletics caught up with Sanchez to talk about his expectations for the summer and the European Athletics Championships.

Seattle, WA – June 26, 2010 – Cheerleaders and live bands lined the course Saturday morning as more than 27,000 participants ran from Tukwila to Seattle for the second annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Seattle Marathon & ½ Marathon benefiting the American Cancer Society.

The former star of Japanese marathoning and now director of sports for Team S&B Toshihiko Seko, 53, is in South Africa to cheer for his former classmate at Waseda University, Japanese national soccer team head coach Takeshi Okada, in Japan's June 14 World Cup game versus Cameroon

Returning Bupa 10,000m champion Mo Farah (Ricky Simms) improved his own British road record by six seconds at the London based event on Monday 31 May.

Great Britain's Paula Radcliffe, the women's world Marathon record holder is looking to stay at the top of her profession even beyond her 40th birthday.