Usain Bolt completed his hat-trick of sprint titles at the World Championships tonight..

Paul Hession has completed a very encouraging day for Ireland at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, qualifying for tomorrow evening's 200 metres semi-finals.

Double Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt wants to achieve legendary status by defending his titles at London 2012.

PAUL HESSION faces a star-studded field in the 200m (4pm Irish time) at the world athletics finals in Stuttgart tomorrow.

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

PAUL HESSION singled out Brendan Christian (Antigua & Barbuda) as the favourite to win the race before he went to the line for last evening’s 200m at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting in Oslo and then went on to challenge him for the lead coming off the bend.

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.

IRELAND has two athletes at the top of the European rankings after an exciting weekend that saw Paul Hession (Athenry) run the fastest 200m by a European this year at the Woodies DIY national track and field championships at Morton Stadium and Alistair Cragg post the fastest 5,000m by a European at a meet in Brasschaat, Belgium.

Joanne Cuddihy finished last in a tonight’s European Championships 400 metres final.

The Norwich Union GB team will be hoping Marlon Devonish can at least repeat his 200metres bronze medal performance of four years ago when the European Championships continue today.

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

ALISTAIR CRAGG will arrive in Cork today geared for a battling performance in the 3,000m at tomorrow’s BUPA Cork City Sports at The Mardyke.

TWO of the fastest men on earth return to The Mardyke on Saturday for the BUPA Cork City Sports with confirmation yesterday that two of America’s top sprinters, Bernard Williams and Tyree Washington, are set to line up for the 100m and 200m, respectively.

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.

CRAIG MOTTRAM may have failed narrowly to break his 3,000m Australian record at the BUPA Cork City Sports but his 7:38.15 ­ an Irish all-comers record - was the performance of the meet on a wet Saturday afternoon at the Mardyke.

BERNARD WILLIAMS may be the Olympic silver medallist at 200m but the track’s greatest entertainer is only on standby for that event at the BUPA Cork City Sports International Track and Field Meeting this afternoon and that demonstrates the amount of talent that will be on show at The Mardyke (2pm).

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.

IT was one of the biggest televised races of Paul Brizzel’s life. In the end, it was one of the cameras that cost him his chance of glory.

Ireland's Paul Brizzel was forced to do a solo 200metres run after the organisers of the European Championships bungled again in Munich.

JAMIE COSTIN will get the Irish to the Olympic Stadium early this morning when he lines up for the 50k walk (8.05 am Irish time).

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