Tom Walsh yesterday eclipsed some of the sport's biggest names on his way to third place at the Glasgow leg of the IAAF Diamond League circuit.

Good news for Commonwealth Games organisers - two of their major track drawcards will compete in Glasgow, but the waiting game for the biggest name of them all continues.

Nick Willis has seldom been in better form, delivering three of his finest athletics achievements in the last six weeks.

The eldest son of Dame Susan Devoy is finding his legs in America - beating an Olympic silver medallist and running a mile in under four minutes for the first time.

Witnessing a Jacko Gill training session feels like a throwback to television’s Six Million Dollar Man.

Siositina Hakeai started throwing the discus because she relished the chance to beat the boys at school. Now she's weeks away from being a medal contender at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Nicky Samuels isn't heading for Glasgow, just yet. The Wanaka triathlete has been nominated to the New Zealand Olympic Committee after a review process to overturn her initial naming as a reserve only for the Commonwealth Games team later this year.

Valerie Adams has received an injury scare ahead of the Commonwealth Games, battling a shoulder complaint on her non-throwing arm.

Victory in the Diamond League opener in Doha was Valerie Adams’ 47th consecutive victory as she shows no signs of letting up in her total dominance of women’s shot putting.

Roger Bannister, who set the world ablaze 60 years ago with his physical prowess, announced recently that he has late onset Parkinson's disease.

Masataka Uchino from Japan and 50-year-old Sally Gibbs from Tauranga were the overall winners of the 50th Rotorua Marathon yesterday.

Any of Valerie Adams’ rivals wondering if the champion shot putter’s desire is starting to wane are out of luck.

The world's most famous murder suspect, Oscar Pistorius, returns to the witness box tonight to face further gruelling cross-examination.

Tonight, Oscar Pistorius faces what could be the toughest challenge of his life as he testifies for the first time about the night he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Valerie Adams doesn't expect to compete against Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk again but the fact that she will have the chance has left a bad taste in the mouth of the double Olympic and four-time world champion.