Olympic hero Mo Farah was back in London with his wife Tania and new-born twin daughters this morning after savouring the adulation of an adoring crowd on his return to the track.

The mixed fortunes of our Irish competitors in the London Olympics has prompted me to write a defence of our most successful Olympian, Michelle Smith de Bruin.

Usain Bolt ran a season’s best 9.85 seconds to win the World Challenge meeting in Zagreb tonight in his first 100 metres since false starting at the World Championships.

Former champion Christine Ohuruogu’s miserable season went from bad to worse tonight as she was disqualified from the World Championships for a false start.

INDIA was yesterday struggling to keep its Commonwealth Games on track, with England warning the event was on a “knife edge” over complaints of filthy housing and growing structural and security fears.

ASAFA POWELL laid down a challenge to his 100m rivals byclocking a wind-aided 9.75 seconds as the IAAF Diamond League got underway in Doha last night.

THE awesome presence of Olympic 400m champion, Christine Ohuruogu, will add an air of excitement to this weekend’s Woodies DIY Irish Indoor Championships at The Odyssey in Belfast, where she will begin the build-up to the defence of her world title in Berlin next August.

AILIS McSWEENEY highlighted her return to form by reclaiming the national indoor 60m title at the Woodies DIY Irish indoor championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast last year but there will be more at stake when she defends the title this year.

Olympic 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu is scheduled to compete at the Irish Indoor Championships in Belfast on February 7-8.

OLYMPIC 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu will be the star attraction at the Woodie’s DIY Irish Indoor Senior Championships at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, on February 7-8.

Actress Helen Mirren looked unusually demure when she collected an award for her fashion sense.

Sprinter Dwain Chambers is encouraged by comments from new UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee suggesting he would be welcomed back into the Great Britain team.

Starting in the difficult lane number eight, in the fourth heat of the 400m this morning in Beijing, Irish track athlete Joanne Cuddihy failed to qualify for the semi-finals.

World 100m record holder Usain Bolt has promised “something very special” when he competes over his preferred 200m distance at the Aviva London Grand Prix on July 25-26.

Dwain Chambers has been warned he cannot simply stroll on to Britain’s 4x100m relay team if he manages to overturn his Olympic ban.

Dwain Chambers’ legal team have filed papers against the British Olympic Association in London in a bid to pave the way for him to compete at next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

Dwain Chambers’ legal team will file papers against the British Olympic Association in London later this morning in a bid to pave the way for him to compete at next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

Scotland’s Lee McConnell has quit the 400metres hurdles and set her sights on Olympic glory in the flat one-lap event.

Mark Lewis-Francis has revealed that he is one missed drug test from facing the one-year ban which Christine Ohuruogu served.

Christine Ohuruogu was celebrating today after having her Olympic ban overturned and has already set her sights on winning a medal in London 2012.

Christine Ohuruogu has won her appeal against a lifetime Olympic ban for missing three out-of-competition drugs tests.

World champion Christine Ohuruogu finishing fourth, well beaten by Sanya Richards in their eagerly awaited clash at tonight’s IAAF Golden League meeting in Zurich.

Tyson Gay picked up a third gold medal and Team USA continued to dominate in sprinting events by winning the 4x100 metres relay at the World Championships in Osaka tonight.

Commonwealth 400metres champion Christine Ohuruogu has finally submitted her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against her one-year drug suspension.

JOHN CAPEL and Natalya Sadova are the two biggest names to fall foul of competition drug tests carried out by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) this year.

England enjoyed a golden hat-trick on the third night of athletics in the Commonwealth Games today in Melbourne.