athletes


Paul Hession aims to line up alongside Usain Bolt in Berlin next August

UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos says he is happy with his sport's funding ahead of the 2012 Olympics despite a £1.4m cutback.

Clickable guide to all the sites for the London Games

Reaction to the announcement of UK Sport's Olympic funding programme for the London 2012 Games.

Basketball, synchronised swimming and taekwondo are the big winners in UK Sport's Olympic 2012 funding programme - but athletics and shooting lose out.

Olympic 200 metre finalist Paul Hession will be among the big names competing at the Woodie's DIY Irish Indoor Championships at the Odyssey Arena.

Ballymena and Antrim Athletics Club has won the UK Club of the Year Award.

St Patrick's Athletic midfielder Keith Fahey signs a pre-contract agreement with Birmingham City.

Grays Athletic sign Dagenham & Redbridge striker Wesley Thomas on a one month loan.

Mo Farah and Hayley Yelling form part of a strong Great Britain squad for the European Cross Country Championships in Belgium later this month.

England and Australia athletes will face off in a meeting to be staged on Gateshead's quayside in 2009.

Manx cross country runner Keith Gerrard wins himself a place on the Great Britain Under-23 team at the European Championships in Belgium.

France's former world champion athlete Eunice Barber is fined for resisting arrest and biting a policeman.

Steve Cram explains why the Olympic 400m champion deserves to be a Sports Personality contender

Sir Steven Redgrave explains why the triple Olympic cycling champion deserves to be a Sports Personality contender

Britain's Paula Radcliffe heads a high-quality field for next year's London Marathon.

Steve Cram explains why the Olympic 400m champion deserves to be a Sports Personality contender

Sir Steven Redgrave explains why the triple Olympic cycling champion deserves to be a Sports Personality contender

Grays Athletic midfielder Sam Sloma hopes the spirit they showed in the FA Cup will help them to avoid relegation.

Edinburgh rivals Hibernian and Hearts have been drawn together in the fourth round of the Homecoming Scottish Cup.

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