The 2014 IAAF Continental Cup, held in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on 13-14 September, will follow the same reformatted set-up that featured in the 2010 edition with four teams competing against one another.

Two-time Olympic javelin champion Andreas Thorkildsen is next up to answer our work, rest and play questions.

A record number of 37 athletes will represent Poland on home soil in Sopot at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on 7-9 March.

Some shrewd investing by Ethiopian runners Feyera Gemeda and Rehima Kedir paid off handsomely when they won at the 2014 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, on Sunday (16).

A touch of hamstring soreness kept Sally Pearson out of a second flat sprint clash with Melissa Breen, but nothing was going to stop the Olympic champion putting down a marker in her flagship hurdles event at the Perth Track Classic on Saturday (22).

The last time Ruth Beitia cleared two metres was in the 2012 Olympic high jump final. Despite producing one of the best marks of her career, in a high-quality competition it was only good enough for fourth place.