Great rivalries are made at the Olympic Games. We have Michael Phelps and Chad le Clos in swimming, Bolt and Gatlin in the 100m sprint, the O’Donovan brothers and those très cool French dudes in the rowing. But you ain’t seen nothin’ like Ross and Hickey in the egos.

Usain Bolt stormed to the World Championship sprint double at the World Athletics Championships when a runaway segway proved more problematic than Justin Gatlin. Four days on from riding to the rescue of his beleaguered sport in the 100 metres, the Jamaican attempted to make it four successive half-lap world crowns in Beijing.

Usain Bolt again delivered when it mattered as he scorched to the fastest time of 2015 to win a record fourth straight world 200m title in 19.55 seconds and sweep the individual sprints at a global championships for a fifth time. 

Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin will renew their battle for World Championship gold this afternoon after the pair cruised into today’s 200 metres final (1.55pm Irish time, live on BBC2).

Usain Bolt rode to the rescue of his beleaguered sport in the toughest race of his career as he dashed Justin Gatlin’s hopes of 100m gold at the World Championships in Beijing.

We all love to see great rivalry in sport, a battle between the victor and the vanquished, the goodies and the baddies.

Thomas Barr produced a time just six-hundredths of a second outside his Irish record, but still bowed out of the men’s 400m hurdles at the semi-final stage at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

Back at the scene of his 2008 Olympic triumphs, Usain Bolt will square off against controversial American Justin Gatlin in the 100m at the world championships.

Coe v Ovett. Unless you were hung up on some British class divide thing, or had a bit of a Brideshead Revisited phobia, you had to be a Coe man, didn’t you?

Usain Bolt blew away any fears about his fitness and fired a major warning to Justin Gatlin as he blasted to his fastest 100 metres of the year on his return to London’s Olympic Stadium last night.

The stage is set for a top class evening of athletics at the Morton Games in Morton Stadium, Santry this evening headlined by the second fastest man in history, Yohan Blake, and World Universities 400m hurdles champion Thomas Barr.

Usain Bolt is back in old London town and that is usually good reason to be cheerful, not fearful. 

The world of athletics has found itself in a precarious position. During the outdoor season, I had a sense there was an elephant in the room and wondered at what point is it going to be discussed, writes Derval O'Rourke. 

Usain Bolt racked up his sixth world title in Moscow to go alongside his half dozen Olympic golds – and then declared he was far from done with winning.

Usain Bolt lit up Moscow in the same manner as the real lightning bolts in the Russian skies as the mercurial Jamaican claimed his fourth global 100m title in the Luzhniki rain this evening.

Olympic champion Usain Bolt was unable to claim victory in his first Diamond League race of the season as Justin Gatlin continued his impressive form by edging out the Jamaican to win the 100 metres in Rome.

Derval O’Rourke is the standout name of the athletes pre-selected for the European first league team championships at the end of the month.

The man who threw a plastic beer bottle at competitors at the start of the men’s Olympic 100m final was sentenced to an eight-week community order in England today.

A man remained in custody today after a bottle was thrown on to the track at the start of the men’s 100m final at the Olympic Stadium.

American Ashton Eaton set a new world record in winning the men’s heptathlon title at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, but the home nation celebrated the loudest with two medals today.

United States sprint star Tyson Gay is set to miss out on the chance to challenge Usain Bolt for the 100 metres title at this year’s World Championships.

US SPRINTER Justin Gatlin easily won his 100 metres heat yesterday in his first competitive race after a four-year doping ban with a time of 10.34 seconds.

Justin Gatlin is making another challenge against his drug suspension tomorrow in a bid to be allowed to compete at the USA Olympic trials in Eugene beginning next weekend.

Former Olympic 100 metre champion Justin Gatlin hopes to have his four-year ban from competition reduced to no more than two years when he takes his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Wednesday.

The athletics coach at the centre of the BALCO scandal is expected in a United States district court in San Francisco today.

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

SPRINTER Asafa Powell has confidently predicted he will beat his 100 metres world record and become the first person to clock under 9.70 seconds.

Olympic and world 100m champion Justin Gatlin has requested an arbitration hearing to prove he is innocent of deliberately committing an anti-doping violation.

World and Olympic 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin has trained with NFL side Houston Texans as he waits for his drugs case to go to arbitration.

August World and Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin expects to be cleared of doping charges despite facing a lifetime ban following a second positive drugs test.

OLYMPIC 100m champion Justin Gatlin must serve a minimum drugs ban of four years, says the world governing body.

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

US Track and Field chief executive officer Craig Masback has expressed his disappointment in Justin Gatlin after the world and Olympic 100 metres champion was banned for a maximum of eight years after admitting his positive test “constituted a doping violation”.

WORLD and Olympic 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for a maximum of eight years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency after admitting he committed “a doping violation”.

JUSTIN GATLIN will be stripped of his share of the 100 metres world record if he is found guilty of a doping offence, the International Amateur Athletics Federation have confirmed.

Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe believes it is necessary to “weed out and catch the drug cheats” – even if it means athletics being dragged through the mud.

Olympic and world champion Justin Gatlin tested positive after unknowingly having testosterone cream rubbed into his legs by a massage therapist with a grievance, according to his coach Trevor Graham.

WORLD anti-doping chief Dick Pound has called for Justin Gatlin to be banned for life after confirming the sprinter’s ‘B’ sample had tested positive for testosterone.

Coaching guru Frank Dick has expressed his disappointment and surprise at the news Olympic 100metres champion Justin Gatlin has tested positive for testosterone.

ASAFA POWELL pocketed a $10,000 diamond after producing another sparkling 100m run — this time in the DN Galan meet at Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium last night.

ASAFA POWELL says he is ready to take on Justin Gatlin — whenever and wherever.

Asafa Powell has laid down a challenge to joint world-record-holder Justin Gatlin.

MARLON DEVONISH posted a season’s best time in winning the 200 metres at last night’s IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Athens.