The 35-year-old Welshman says he still trains for enjoyment but has clarified earlier comments that suggested he was tempted to return to competition. "I still love training and do it to keep fit but I'm not thinking about a comeback," Thomas told BBC Sport.

No one could have imagined that the BERLIN-MARATHON would become one of the most spectacular sports events in Germany when the race was started for the first time 35 years ago. That happened next to the Grunewald, a forest in West Berlin, and there were only few spectators...

INDIANAPOLIS - U.S. Olympians Anthony Famiglietti (Knoxville, Tenn.), Matt Tegenkamp (Portland, Ore.) and Amy Yoder Begley (Beaverton, Ore.) will headline the entries for the 2009 USA 5 km Championships Sunday in Providence, R.I.

The prevailing wisdom after watching the 22-year-old Jamaican sprint to 9.58 seconds and 19.19 seconds in the 100 and 200 meters respectively at the World Championship is that every race under 400 meters is a rap. Usain Bolt has the ability to challenge every world record under 800 meters, bring about world peace, and deliver on universal health care and still have time to for some dance hall moves.

The IAAF said Friday it has received the results of gender tests on South African runner Caster Semenya but is still reviewing them and will not issue any final decision until November. The International Association of Athletics Federations did not confirm or deny Australian newspaper reports that the recently crowned women's world 800-meter champion has male and female sexual organs.

PARIS — Former world and Olympic champion Stacy Dragila ended her 14-year pole vaulting career with a second-place finish at the DecaNation track and field meet. The 38-year-old American won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Games in which women competed in the pole vault. She is a two-time world champion.

INDIANAPOLIS - Sanya Richards has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after winning a share of the $1,000,000 Golden League jackpot with her win Friday at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium. The reigning world 400m champion, Richards dominated her signature event in leading from start to finish before crossing the finish line in a world-leading 48.83 seconds, which is her second best effort ever.

Two Asian records were broken at the Chinese national championships that ended on Monday evening at the Olympic Water Cube in Beijing. Most of China's top swimmers were absent, away preparing for the National Games of China in October. According to term papers online, the Beijing meet presented a mixed picture when it came to shiny suits or not: some haves wore them, some have nots did not.

Zürich, Switzerland – In one of the most dramatic comebacks of recent athletics history, Yelena Isinbayeva, who no heighted in the final at last week's 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, this evening improved her World Pole Vault record (5.05m set in Beijing last summer) with a first time clearance at 5.06m* at the Weltklasse Zürich, the fifth of the six meeting ÅF Golden League 2009 series.

Ritz's Splits 30.9 [15th], 61.8 [1:32.7] [15th], 61.8 [2:34.5] [15th], 61.3 [3:35.8] [15th], 62.7 [4:38.5] [15th], 62.2 [5:40.7] [14th], 62.8 [6:43.5] [12th], 63.9 [7:47.4] [11th], 62.9 [8:50.3] [9th], 62.9 [9:53.2] [8th], 62.5 [10:55.7] [7th], 60.4 [11:56.1] [3rd], 60.2 [3rd] 2:00.6 for his last 800, 4:06 last 1600.

Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has withdrawn from Sunday's Grand Prix de Plouay, a UCI Pro-Tour race in western France.

South Africa's new 800-metre world champion Caster Semenya was declared a "golden girl" by local media, while the athlete's family shrugged off questions about the runner's gender.

World record holder Paula Radcliffe has decided not to run in the World Championships marathon after failing to get back to full fitness after foot surgery.

Berlin, Germany - It is one thing to have an intuition you are going to win, but it is quite another to carry it out. Yusuf Saad Kamel of Bahrain woke on the Wednesday morning of the 1500m final in Berlin sensing gold was his and so it proved.

BERLIN - Two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat came storming back from behind in the men's 1,500m final to win the bronze medal Wednesday evening at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at the 1936 Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany.

The world bronze medallist (pictured) powered to the fastest first-round time, 11.22 seconds, as speedsters from the US and Caribbean won eight of the nine heats. Jamaican Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser proved to be the exception as she eased up to allow Brazil's Lucimar de Moura to go through first, though both finished in 11.41 seconds.

It was the dethroned champion Christine Ohuruogu who put it best. “It was a good run and a brilliant time. I think she just wanted it more than the rest of us.” World number one for the last five seasons, but never a champion, Sanya Richards finally got it right when it mattered most as she took her first major championships gold at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin in superb style.

The current US professional time trial champion, Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Slipstream), is using the six-stage Tour of Utah to prepare for a fourth consecutive victory at the upcoming championship event held in Greenville, South Carolina next weekend.

While the announcement of Team RadioShack generated much buzz at the Tour de France, details were in short supply. While things are still falling into place for the new squad, Bill Stapleton, Lance Armstrong's long-time agent and partner at Capital Sports & Entertainment (CSE) which owned and managed the US Postal and Discovery Channel squads and now owns and is managing Team RadioShack, discussed the team's plans for the 2010 season.

The Jamaican was in no mood for pre-race showboating, quickly carving out a lead before easing off in the straight and trotting over the finish line with the best overall time of 20.08 seconds. He was quickly back to his usual self after the race, throwing his vest into a group of cheering girls.

When you find yourself on the red carpet at an event like the ESPYs, it’s very easy for your mind to go blank – surrounded by many of the best athletes and most famous celebs, filled with awe and wonder as you take it all in – especially if you’re a high school kid from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Yes, Curtis Beach has enjoyed record after record, accolade after accolade, but this was different, as it surely was for all of the Gatorade national award winners as they walked into the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Semenya, is eligible to compete in the final later on Wednesday as the complex medical process will not be completed until well after the August 15-23 championships. "In the case of this athlete, following her breakthrough in the African junior championships, the rumours, the gossip was starting to build up," said IAAF spokesman Nick Davies.

Cuba's Olympic champion and world record holder Dayron Robles was also left uncertain for the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles after battling through his heat with an injured left lead leg to eventually clock the slowest time of all qualifiers. Dibaba, a two-time world champion over the 5000m (2003 and 2005) who is also the Olympic 10,000m champion, had already pulled out of the longer race last weekend after suffering from an ankle injury all season.

The Garmin rider outmuscled Belgian Tom Boonen and Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen at the line to win the 184km stage from Aalter and Aardoie. Farrar was delighted to wrest the yellow jersey from Frenchman Sylvian Chavanel, winner of Tuesday's prologue in Rotterdam.

Sunday, 16 August 2009 Bolt again! 9.58 World record in Berlin! Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's 100m with a world record of 9.58 seconds (Getty Images) relnews16 August 2009 - Berlin, Germany – With a performance that defies imagination, Usain Bolt set a new 100m World record of 9.58 on the second evening of the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.