Gail Devers has accepted Team USA’s invitation to race in the 100 metres at Athens, putting an end to any hope Marion Jones had of defending her title.

Marion Jones is set to miss out on a place in the individual 100 metres in Athens after reports indicated that her last-ditch hope of a call-up will be scuppered.

American sprinter Mickey Grimes has been formally charged with his second doping offence.

Athens gold medal favourite Allen Johnson just scraped into the USA team at the Olympic Trials in Sacramento.

MARION JONES has outlined her determination to prove wrong the critics who think she is a spent force in athletics.

Anti-doping chief Dick Pound has warned sport’s drug cheats the net is starting to close in on them.

A possible doping ban for American sprinter Torri Edwards could pave the way for Marion Jones to defend her Olympic 100 metres title in Athens next month.

America’s track golden girls are looking forward to a glittering Olympics after they showed their younger rivals at the US team trials they still have what it takes to be in the medal hunt.

Marion Jones will not be defending her Olympic 100 metres title in Athens next month after failing to make the American team at the US trials in Sacramento, California.

The most powerful nation in world athletics tonight began its search for a team to take on the best of the rest at the Athens Olympics next month.

Marion Jones made a winning return to the track at the Millrose Games after taking 14 months out for the birth of her son.

KELLI WHITE of the United States became the first woman since East Germany’s Katrin Krabbe in 1991 to clinch the world championship sprint double when she won the women’s 200 metres title in Paris last night.

AMERICAN Kelli White won the women’s 100m title last night.