Jailed athlete Oscar Pistorius has been taken from prison to hospital for medical examinations, with South African media reporting he was complaining of chest pains.

Kenya's Mary Keitany set a new world record to win the women's London Marathon as Daniel Wanjiru took victory in the men's race.

Cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad has died following a crash in the men's C4/C5 road race at the Rio Paralympics, Iran's national Paralympic committee has announced.

When it was over, Pat O’Leary strapped back on his left leg and walked off down the pontoon in Rio de Janeiro’s spectacular Lagoa Stadium to find his family.

Some reflection of the road disability sport has still to travel in Brazil was clearly seen in the Deodora Stadium in Rio yesterday.

All seven of Elizabeth and Jim Lenihan’s children have been immersed in sport growing up in Deliga, near Milford.

The Swiss Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from the Russian Paralympic Committee to allow its athletes to compete in the Rio Games.

British athletes made “sporting history” at Rio 2016, but their bosses believe Tokyo 2020 could be even better.

A Russian diplomat has described the decision to ban their Paralympics team from the Rio Games next month as "filthy and inhumane".

South African track star Oscar Pistorius, serving six years in jail for murdering his girlfriend, was treated in hospital for minor wrist injuries on Saturday before being returned to custody, a prison service spokesman said.

Dr Patrick O’Leary lives in Galway with his wife Jude and children Sean, 10, and Joe, 8. He lectures in organic chemistry at NUIG and, in September, will be Ireland’s first para-canoeist to compete in the Paralympics. He qualified for Rio by winning the KL3 B final at last month’s World Para-Canoeing Championships in a new personal best time. He has been canoeing for 26 years but only in para-canoeing for the past three.

Irish Paralympics legend John Twomey has issued a stark warning ahead of the Paralympic and Olympic Games as gun battles broke out on the streets of Rio de Janeiro last night.

Oscar Pistorius removed his prosthetic legs in a South African courtroom as part of his defence team’s argument that the double-amputee athlete, convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, deserves leniency when he is sentenced on July 6.

Update: A South African judge has said she will announce Oscar Pistorius's sentence on July 6 for Reeva Steenkamp's murder.

There are misconceptions over Oscar Pistorius's murder conviction, his chief defence lawyer said, calling them "enemies" of the case as he asked a judge for leniency for the double-amputee athlete, who is facing a 15-year jail sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

A few hours after qualifying for his 11th consecutive Paralympic Games, John Twomey, was brought back down to earth — or to a Melbourne kitchen, to be exact.

Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp deliberately, her parents said, ahead of an appeal hearing in which prosecutors are seeking to overturn a South African court ruling that the athlete was not guilty of murder.

The outgoing president of international athletics has defended the organisation’s record on drug-testing and called the latest dopingallegations “a joke”.

A South African court has struck down Oscar Pistorius’s bid to block prosecutors from appealing the culpable homicide verdict handed down against him, in favour of a murder conviction, for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Prosecutors have won their right to appeal against Oscar Pistorius’ culpable homicide conviction, for shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but life has lost its meaning for her stricken parents, June and Barry, says Hannah Stephenson

The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial urged the judge to send the Olympic athlete to prison for at least 10 years, calling it the minimum acceptable term and noting the horrific nature of the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp.

Reeva Steenkamp’s cousin sobbed as she told a South African court how she first heard on a car radio that Oscar Pistorius had shot and killed his girlfriend.

Oscar Pistorius is being portrayed as a "poor victim" ahead of his sentencing for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a prosecutor has said.

South African track star Oscar Pistorius should serve three years of partial house arrest and community service for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, a witness said at the first day of the athlete’s sentencing.

Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was yesterday convicted of culpable homicide — the equivalent Irish legal term is manslaughter — escaping the more serious charge of murder for the killing of his girlfriend, and will now battle to avoid going to prison.

The International Paralympic Committeee will allow Oscar Pistorius to compete in the future after the movement’s most famous athlete was found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend.

Supporters of Oscar Pistorius have voiced their support and prayers for the South African athlete on social media after he was found guilty of culpable homicide (manslaughter) in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

South African state prosecutor Gerrie Nel asked the judge in Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial to reject the Olympic and Paralympic track star’s defence as "devoid of any truth".

Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers wrapped up their defence of the Olympic and Paralympic star, bringing the dramatic murder trial of one of the world’s best-known athletes closer to conclusion.

A host of athletic stars from around the world have arrived for the meet being held this evening in CIT.

As if the inclement nature of the weather isn’t enough of an obstacle for Irish athletes’ endurance training, Mark Rohan has to cope with the added worry that failure to make the top three at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships in August will cost him €20,000.

Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial resumed yesterday with a neighbour and friend giving a heart-wrenching account of discovering the "broken" athlete coming down the stairs, holding his dead girlfriend in his arms.