Valerie Adams manages to produce her best throw of the year to take the Diamond League shot put series title in Zurich this morning.

The argument over New Zealand's best woman athlete got another solid airing this week in the wake of the mighty Adams' fourth world shot put title, to sit alongside two Olympic gold medals.

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Adams' joy in blitzing her competition this morning was boundless, writes Andrew Alderson who was there to witness her history-making win.

"I'm just f***ing stoked." Val Adams didn't mince words after taking her fourth world championship title and becoming the most prolific shot putter in history.

Some dullard, a shop assistant or security staff, will look at you with bleak, robotic eyes and grunt to suggest your very existence has ruined their day, writes Andrew Alderson.

Double Olympic champion Valerie Adams needed just one attempt to reach the shot put final at the world athletics championships in Moscow last night.

For shot putter Val Adams to catalogue 2013 under 'S' for success, it's understood she wants a personal best around 21.50m at the world championships in Moscow.

The Jamaican athletics team is focusing on the "positive side of life" in the wake of a doping scandal that has rocked track and field, according to 200m medal hopeful Warren Weir.