Kenenisa Bekele's record hopes were dashed when he miscounted his laps in the men's 3,000m and staged his sprint finish a lap too soon at the Boston Indoor Games.

BRITAIN’S Kelly Holmes ended years of frustration at major championships last night when she won the women’s 800 metres Olympic title.

Kelly Holmes insists she will do everything she can to satisfy her “desperate” hunger for a medal at next month’s Olympics following her resounding victory over 800 metres at the Norwich Union International in Birmingham.

AS expected, Sonia O’Sullivan and the newly-crowned European 5,000m champion, Marta Dominguez of Spain, will renew rivalry at the Weltklasse in Zurich tonight but Gabriela Szabo has jumped ship and elected to run in the 1,500m race.

Kelly Holmes was backtracking quicker than she performed on the track in Munich today as she unsuccessfully attempted to extricate herself from a drugs row.