Usain Bolt has vowed to do his fans proud in the 200 metres after his disqualification from the final of the 100m at the World Championships in Daegu.

LONDON will have to wait to discover whether it will be given a Golden League meeting in a planned restructuring of the series, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) revealed yesterday.

Athletics chiefs will allow the Russian federation to pursue disciplinary hearings against seven athletes recently banned for doping offences.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned a ban on double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius competing against able-bodied athletes – allowing him to immediately run in all International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) sanctioned events.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have cleared the way for disgraced drugs cheat Marion Jones to be stripped of her Sydney Olympic Games medals by annulling all her results back to 2000.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have still to comment on the eight-year suspension handed down to drugs cheat Justin Gatlin.

ATHLETICS chiefs have admitted that the scale of doping seen in the Balco scandal has “tainted” the sport.

Athens, host of last year’s Olympic Games, has been awarded one of track and field’s most prestigious meetings for next year.

Sebastian Coe is confident Britain’s continuing involvement in Iraq will not hinder London’s bid to land the Olympic Games.

Dublin has received a boost with the news it will stage next year's World Cross Country championships.