One of the last people I saw before I left Singapore, and the Youth Olympic Games last week, was Wilson Kipketer. A lot more relaxed than the intense figure who trod the tracks of the world so elegantly (and speedily) a decade and more ago, the Kenyan-born Dane walked over, face wreathed in smiles, despite knowing the first thing I was going to say to him.

After two and a half millennia following The Battle of Marathon - an event widely acknowledged to have ensured the democratic legacy of Western culture - a Greek distance runner has replicated the feat of the legendary messenger Pheidippides.

Our club, the first in Vancouver to be dedicated to the promotion of long-distance running, was started in 1971 and has been an integral part of the Vancouver running community ever since. We established many major local runs, including the Vancouver marathon, Haney to Harrison relay and James Cunningham Seawall Race.

A couple of years ago, my pal Jim O’Brien was chewing the fat with a New York cabbie, and asked where he was born. ‘Ukraine’ came the reply, to which the only response was, of course, ‘Sergei Bubka’! “Everyone knows Bubka,” growled the cabbie.

The Berlin International Stadium Festival (ISTAF) is Germany's oldest and best-known athletics meeting and one of the most popular and most successful sporting events in Germany.

INDIANAPOLIS - World renowned track and field statistician, meet director and public address announcer Scott Davis died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. at his home in Cerritos, Calif. He was 67.

INDIANAPOLIS - Four-time Olympian, 1956 Olympic gold medalist and former men's hammer throw world record holder Harold Connolly died on Wednesday. He was 79.

The IAAF is saddened by the news that Harold Connolly, the 1956 Olympic champion in the Hammer Throw, passed away yesterday (18).

Prior to the annual Weltklasse Zürich meeting, you will have the opportunity to take a glance at the history of sprint in a faxcinating exhibition at RailCity/Zurich Main Station.

Two days prior to the Samsung Diamond League Meeting of Zurich, the German sprint legend Armin Hary (73) and the current 100m world leader Tyson Gay (28) met on the occasion of the opening of a commemorative exhibition on the history of sprint at RailCity/Zurich Main Station.