Moses Kipsiro

Former world champion Tyson Gay shrugged off damp and cold conditions to power to victory in the 100m at the London Diamond League meeting Friday.

Chinese star Liu Xiang beat Cuban rival Dayron Robles at the British Grand Prix Indoor here Saturday in the first clash of the hurdlers since their controversial World Championship showdown last year.

Kenya completed its domination of the Commonwealth Games distance races on Tuesday, while India's women pulled off an historic win in the 4x400 metres relay final.

Kenya completed its domination of the Commonwealth Games distance races on Tuesday, while India's women pulled off an historic win in the 4x400 metres relay final.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Krishna Poonia hurled a one-kilogram disc just over 61 meters Monday to end India's half-century wait for a Commonwealth athletics gold, while women's sprint champion Osayemi Oludamola was suspended after failing a dope test.

Delhi's Commonwealth Games suffered its first positive drugs test Monday, leaving the women's 100m with potentially a third different winner, as India ended a 52-year wait for track and field gold.

Australia's world pole vault champion Steve Hooker claimed Commonwealth gold on Monday while Richard Mateelong upstaged his more illustrious Kenyan countrymen to win the 3,000m steeplechase title.

The New Delhi Commonwealth Games staggered forward on Thursday hoping for a dash of high-class drama in the final of the men's 100 metres sprint to spice things up.

The New Delhi Commonwealth Games staggered forward on Thursday hoping for a dash of high-class drama in the final of the men's 100 metres sprint to spice things up.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uganda's Moses Kipsiro took the first athletics gold of the Commonwealth Games after workers triumphed in their own desperate race to repair the track and get the infield ready at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

From poor turnout to strikes, problems put C'Wealth Games officials on defensive. After averting the embarrassment of having to delay the start of competition Wednesday because of a damaged track, organizers of the Commonwealth Games were dealing with a transit driver boycott.

Australia tightened their Commonwealth Games gold medal grip Wednesday as embattled Delhi organisers scrambled desperately to salvage the crisis-hit, publically-shunned event's crumbling reputation.

Uganda's Moses Kipsiro planned his race to perfection to hold off charging former Kenyan world champion Eliud Kipchoge and win a thrilling men's 5,000m Commonwealth Games gold medal on Wednesday.

European sprint king Christophe Lemaitre took advantage of the missing Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay to clinch victory in the 100m at the Continental Cup on Saturday.

Hosts Kenya claimed the first gold in the African Athletics championships on Wednesday when Wilson Kiprop held off Uganda's Moses Kipsiro to win the men's 10,000 metres.

Joseph Ebuya led a Kenyan cleansweep of the four titles on offer at the world cross country championships on Sunday.

Joseph Ebuya led a Kenyan cleansweep of the four titles on offer at the world cross country championships here on Sunday.

Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele won an unprecedented distance double at the World Athletics Championships after adding the 5000m title to his 10,000m crown on Sunday.

Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele won an unprecedented distance double at the World Athletics Championships after adding the 5000m title to his 10,000m crown on Sunday.

Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele won an unprecedented distance double at the World Athletics Championships after adding the 5000m title to his 10,000m crown on Sunday.