EILEEN O’KEEFFE has withdrawn from the featured hammer throw at tonight’s Brother Ireland Morton Memorial Meeting at Morton Stadium, citing a knee injury.

Olympic gold medalist Darren Campbell continues to maintain disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers cannot be held “solely accountable” for his drug abuse.

EUROPEAN Indoor 60 metres champion Jason Gardener believes drug cheat Justin Gatlin is unlikely to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.

ATHLETICS Ireland have been in touch with the Department of Foreign Affairs asking them for assistance in getting Martin Fagan’s status rectified so that he can re-enter the US and pursue his Olympic dream.

Olympic champion Mark Lewis-Francis insists Great Britain’s 4x100 metre relay team at the World Championships in Osaka has the individual potential to be better than the one that stormed to gold in Athens three years ago.

JONAH LOMU hopes his training sessions with sprint legend Linford Christie have increased his chances of landing a Super 14 contract - with an astonishing All Black comeback the ultimate prize.

Olympic sprint champion Darren Campbell claims he can help Jonah Lomu rediscover the form that made him one of the most imposing figures in world sport.

Olympic sprint champion Darren Campbell claims he can help Jonah Lomu rediscover the form that made him one of the most imposing figures in world sport.

Three-time 100 metres world champion Maurice Greene insists he is more motivated by helping the United States to a world record in the sprint relay than gaining revenge over the British at the World Championships starting on Saturday.

British Olympic hero Darren Campbell finished third at Rehlingen yesterday in his first race of the season.

If Sven-Goran Eriksson had any doubts about plunging Rio Ferdinand straight back into the England fray, they were swept aside by the defender’s assured comeback after eight months of inactivity.

British sprinter Abi Oyepitan aimed a cheeky taunt at Maurice Greene after Britain’s 4x100metres relay quartet had pulled off a stunning victory over the USA.

Great Britain’s men’s 4x100metres relay squad pulled off a sensational gold medal-winning performance in Athens tonight.

Darren Campbell is fit enough to run in tonight’s men’s 200 metres semi-final.

Kelly Holmes plans to forget she is an Olympic champion as she goes all out for a second gold medal.

Many an athlete has dropped a proverbial clanger at the Olympics, but today saw a Games official do so quite literally.

Britain's Kelly Holmes was again tight-lipped about her Olympic ambitions after finishing second over 1,500 metres in tonight’s Weltklasse Golden League meeting in Zurich.

VICTORIES by four genuine Olympic medal hopefuls helped atone for a bitterly disappointing display by Britain’s 100 metres sprinters in the Norwich Union London Grand Prix at a sweltering Crystal Palace last night.

Victories by four of Britain’s genuine Olympic medal hopefuls helped atone for a bitterly disappointing display by the 100 metres sprinters in the Norwich Union London Grand Prix at a sweltering Crystal Palace this evening.

Darren Campbell’s anxious 36-hour wait over Olympic selection ended this morning when he was included in the Great Britain team for both the 100 and 200 metres.

Top British sprinters Mark Lewis-Francis and Darren Campbell will get a first glance at their possible American Olympic rivals in Philadelphia this weekend.

World 20-kilometre walk silver medallist Gillian O’Sullivan will compete indoors in Belfast later this month where she set a world 3km walking record 12 months ago.

Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones will return to European track action at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham on February 20.

JOHN CAPEL of the United States rescued American sprinting pride as he led home a 1-2 in the men’s 200 metres world final last night.

PAUL BRIZZEL walked away from the Stade de France with a broad smile last night after he had posted his A standard for next year’s Olympics.

Dwain Chambers roared into the final of the World Championships in Paris tonight as American Maurice Greene’s six-year reign came to an end.

IT WAS to be a day of celebration for Kerry’s Gillian O’Sullivan (Farranfore/Maine Valley) at the opening session of the indoor championships of Ireland.

Darren Campbell edged out Mark Lewis-Francis by one hundredth of a second in the 60m final at the Irish Indoor Athletics Championships in Belfast.

SONIA O'SULLIVAN is all set to compete in the short course trial which will be run at Dunleer on March 16 in conjunction with Rás na hÉireann.

English sprinter Darren Campbell has admitted he considered suicide to escape the injury nightmare which has plagued him for the past two years.

Denise Lewis today admitted that spending too much time celebrating her Olympic gold medal played a part in her being forced to pull out of the world championships in Canada.