Czech Republic s world javelin champion Vitezslav Vesely will be one of the star attractions at the 53rd Ostrava Golden Spike Meeting on 17 June, organisers of the IAAF World Challenge meeting announced on Thursday (24).

Tirunesh Dibaba, the reigning world and Olympic champion at 10,000m, is returning to the north west of England to defend her title in the Bupa Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday 18 May.

To mark the imminent start of the 2014 season of the IAAF Diamond League, which gets under way in Doha on Friday 9 May, New Zealand s shot put heroine Valerie Adams spoke to the press in a media teleconference this afternoon (28).

It was 25 years ago that the legendary Carl Lewis, named as the male athlete of the 20th century by the IAAF in 1999, competed in a tightly contested 100m race at the old Bislett Stadium.

Asbel Kiprop is only 24 but is already among the world s greatest milers of all time and he will lead the best field ever to run the signature event at the 2014 Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, on Saturday 31 May.

More than USD 350,000 is on offer for the three senior races the men s and women s 20km, and the men s 50km from the IAAF as prize money at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Taicang, China on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 May 2014.