Haile Gebrselassie

Billed as the fastest half marathon field ever assembled in Northern Ireland, the only worry for the race organisers is whether or not it will be fast(...)

The beach running scene is still acted out along the Old Course at St Andrews and so too is the Trinity Great Court run at Cambridge. The soundtrack i(...)

The sports scientist laughs at the joke against himself. As an aspiring athlete in his own right when studying in London, among those who pounded the (...)

Before Dundrum became a Town Centre and they paved our paradise we lived just around the corner on Weston Park and every summer transformed the place (...)

It’s possibly no consolation to Liverpool fans after 29.1 millimetres banjaxed their Sunday, but there’s always someone worse off. Like that man dre(...)

Mo Farah ended a week in which he was savaged by one distance running great by being blown away by another. Farah was bidding to win the Virgin Money(...)

In many long-distance races, elite athletes often appear relaxed, with some – remember the legendary Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie? – even smiling. By (...)

So they caught him in the end, Mo Farah losing his last championship race on the track inside a packed London Olympic Stadium, beaten into second plac(...)

Rarely in Olympic history have three gold medal winners talked so loudly on the track, only to sound a little more muted afterwards. Mo Farah – winni(...)

Rarely in Olympic history were two gold medal distance runners rolled into the press conference room having already done so much talking on the track.(...)