There were no less than seven European victories at the IAAF Diamond League final in Brussels but arguably the pick of the crop was Renaud Lavillenie's pole vault with a height of 5.96m on Friday.
The last two years have not been kind to Manuel Olmedo. Injury forced him to watch London 2012 from his living room sofa, but now the 1500m European Indoor Champion from Paris 2011 is back and setting his sights on the European Athletics Championships ...
In recent years, it has been in vogue for some of Europe's most famous recently retired athletes to appear on reality TV programmes or the popular 'dancing with the stars' shows.
A strong group of African runners want to shine during the sunset on Saturday evening (7) and the O2 Prague Grand Prix, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, can boast of five men who have run under 28 minutes on the road for the 10km distance.
The top two French athletes, Teddy Tamgho and Renaud Lavillenie, spoke to the press ahead of their final IAAF Diamond League appearance of 2013 at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme.
The Bank of America Chicago Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, will feature four of the world's fastest Marathon men and the top two finishers from last year's women's race at its 2013 event on 13 October, organisers announced on Thursday (5).
The WMRA Mountain Running World Championships 2013, in the Polish town of Krynica-Zdr j, will see 365 runners from 40 countries and five continents on the start line of the four races on Sunday (8).
The Rieti Meeting 2013, the last IAAF World Challenge meeting of the year, will be a gathering of World and Olympic medallists who will honour the memory of late Italian sprint legend Pietro Mennea.
It s not often that Usain Bolt is upstaged, not least by a fellow Jamaican, but at the final IAAF Diamond League meeting of 2013, the Belgacom Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, it was Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who stole the show.
