Montell Douglas, left, Emily Freeman, centre, and Emma Ania of Great Britain’s women’s 4×100m relay team. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images
There’s a favoured argument among track and field fans that claims that medals in the sport are the hardest to win at any Olympics, because it is the most international of all the events. It is [...]

Dwain Chambers ran the fastest 100m by a Briton this year in Sofia. Photograph: Malcolm Couzens/AP
Dwain Chambers’ legal team have launched a case against the British Olympic Association in order to reverse the sprinter’s Olympic ban and allow him to run in Beijing.
Chambers is currently banned from running at the Olympics after serving a [...]

Iwan Thomas, second left, with the British 4×400m team at the 1996 Olympics. Photograph: Michael Cooper/Getty Images
Iwan Thomas today called for justice to be done and gold medals to be awarded to Great Britain’s 400m relay team as he revealed he is making an unexpected return to the sport in Birmingham this Sunday.Thomas, 34, was [...]

Chambers leaves UK Sport this afternoon. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-doping chief John Scott says his meeting with Dwain Chambers over the disgraced sprinter’s former drug use was “positive and constructive”. Chambers is thought to have laid out the extent of his drug regime in detail to Scott in a bid to clear his name and [...]