Oscar Pistorius
South Africa
Asafa Powell
Jamaica
Sally Pearson
Australia
Usain Bolt
Jamaica
By Justin Palmer
LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius began his T44 100 metres title defence with a smooth heat win on Wednesday but his complaints about rivals allegedly using longer blades will not be investigated further unless evidence is provided, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said.
PARIS (Reuters) - French steeplechaser Nour-Eddine Gezzar has been banned for 10 years after a second positive drugs test, the French athletics federation said in a statement on Tuesday.
Gezzar, who came fourth in the 3,000 metres steeplechase at the European championships, missed the London Olympics after being provisionally suspended following a failed test for erythropoietin (EPO) at the French championships in June.
(Reuters) - Usain Bolt is a definite starter for another Olympic Games in four years' time, opening up the possibility of more sprint records or an attempt at other events, the six-time gold medallist said on Wednesday.
Speculation has been rife since the London Games that the Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion could quit athletics and not compete at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
(Reuters) - One of the American athletes who performed the "black power" salute at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City believes a mooted parliamentary apology to Australian sprinter Peter Norman has come too late.
Norman, who took silver in a 200 metres race overshadowed by its controversial medal ceremony, died of a heart attack in 2006.
ALMATY/ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Kazakhstan threw a lavish ceremony for its record-breaking Olympic athletes on Friday while Turkmenistan fired its sports minister in a reflection of the contrasting fortunes of the former Soviet Central Asian states at the London Games.
Kazakhstan's seven gold medal winners waved to crowds from open-topped limousines on a parade through the futuristic capital Astana before meeting President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the oil-rich republic for more than two decades.
By Ken Borland
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Olympic silver medallist Caster Semenya has defended herself against allegations that she did not try to win the 800 metres at the London Games on Saturday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Former Olympic champion Liu Xiang wants to return to competition after crashing out of the 110 metres hurdles heats at the London Games last week with an Achilles tendon injury, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
"It's all going well, just another scar for me," Xinhua quoted Liu as saying on his return home to China after surgery in London.
By Clare Fallon
LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic women's shot put champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.
DAKAR (Reuters) - A Congolese judo competitor and three other members of the central African country's Olympic delegation have gone missing in London since the weekend, local media reported on Monday, adding to a list of seven other African athletes who vanished during the Games.
Democratic Republic of Congo's Cedric Mandembo, who lost his only judo match in 49 seconds to Russian Alexander Mikhaylin in the 100 kg category, disappeared shortly after Sunday's closing ceremony and was not answering his mobile phone, U.N.-sponsored Radio Okapi reported, citing the Congolese Olympic Committee.
By Ossian Shine
LONDON (Reuters) - Fourteen billion dollars goes a long, long way; it would buy you three U.S. aircraft carriers or six NASA rover missions to Mars.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish athletics needs to take a long, hard look at itself after failing to win a single medal at the Olympic Games, secretary of state for sport Miguel Cardenal said on Monday.
Cardenal said he was generally satisfied with Spain's tally of 17 medals in London - three gold, 10 silver and four bronze - which was one less than in Beijing four years ago.
By Rex Gowar
LONDON (Reuters) - Dayron Robles of Cuba did not finish the 110 metres hurdles final in which he was defending his Olympic title and Brazilian Cesar Cielo failed to win a major 50 metres freestyle race in the pool for the first time in four years.
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) - Bud Winter, the American sprint coach who mentored a generation of world record-holders including Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held a series of seminars in Jamaica in 1966.
By Steve Keating
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States clawed back to the top of the Olympic medal table at the London Games, waving goodbye to Michael Phelps its greatest ever medal producer, and saying hello to a brigade of young newcomers who will carry the torch onto Rio.
By Steven Downes
LONDON (Reuters) - London marathon organisers would be happy to have Britain's double Olympic champion Mo Farah in their race and believe he will make his debut over the distance in the city.
By Karolos Grohmann
LONDON (Reuters) - A dispute about campaigning delayed the admission of new athletes to the International Olympic Committee on Sunday.
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) - Stephen Kiprotich drew inspiration from Uganda's only previous Olympic champion and capitalised on the benefits of training at altitude in Kenya to win the London Games men's marathon on Sunday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt will have an extra souvenir to go with his three gold medals after Olympic officials handed over the baton used by the Jamaican sprint relay team in their world record run.
Bolt had tried to keep the baton after running the anchor leg as Jamaica stormed to victory in the 4x100 metres relay on Saturday but was forced to surrender it by an official on the track.
By Avril Ormsby
LONDON (Reuters) - Chris Hoy's tears of joy represented a defining moment of London 2012, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge said on Sunday.
By Claire Watson
LONDON (Reuters) - Straight from a triumphant Olympic campaign, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt dazzled dancing fans with a turn as a DJ at a London nightclub early on Sunday.
By Karolos Grohmann
LONDON (Reuters) - Colombian 400 metres runner Diego Palomeque Echevarria was excluded from the London Olympics on Sunday after a second sample tested positive for testosterone, the International Olympic Committee said.
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) - Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich won Uganda's first medal of the London Olympics on Sunday after he shot to the front with six kms remaining to defeat the experienced Kenyan pair of Abel Kirui and Wilson Kipsang.
By Karolos Grohmann
LONDON (Reuters) - The 2012 London Games succeeded in refreshing the Olympic brand by injecting enthusiasm as organisers delivered on their promise to create an event tailor-made for athletes, Jacques Rogge said on Sunday.
By Gene Cherry
LONDON (Reuters) - With one final wave, Usain Bolt said goodbye to an adoring British crowd at the Olympic Stadium.
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-doping authorities at the 2012 Olympics lived up to their pre-Games promise to banish any athlete found to be taking performance-enhancing drugs, but no one is under any illusion that means London was a squeaky clean Games.
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - If the wall of noise from an Olympic home crowd were a banned substance, Team GB would have been kicked out of the London Games on day one.
By Alison Wildey
LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt ended his London Olympics in glorious style on Saturday with a third gold and a world record as Jamaica won a blistering men's 4x100 metres final but the 'living legend' was uncertain of repeating the feat again.
By Neil Maidment
LONDON (Reuters) - Just when Britain's double Olympic champion Mo Farah thought his Saturday night could not get any better, Jamaica's Usain Bolt decided to borrow his trademark celebration as he crossed the line in a world-record time in the 4x100 relay on Saturday.
By Nick Mulvenney
LONDON (Reuters) - Allyson Felix once said she would never get over not winning the 200 metres title as favourite at the Beijing Olympics four years ago but three golds and a world record in London have gone a long way to easing the pain.
By Justin Palmer
LONDON (Reuters) - Trinidad & Tobago's first Olympic gold medal in a field event was forged in the unlikely setting of an old school field by a teenager larking around with his cousins.
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt opened his London Olympics campaign with a Games record in the 100 metres final which erased any lingering doubts about his form and fitness.
By Neil Maidment
LONDON (Reuters) - Mo Farah's switch to the United States and a new training regime had already begun to pay dividends but it was back home in London that the Briton reaped his greatest rewards with two Olympic gold medals.
By Nick Mulvenney
LONDON (Reuters) - Emotional Russian Anna Chicherova banished the pain of an injury-marred season to soar to gold in the women's high jump at the London Olympics on Saturday.
By Julian Linden
LONDON (Reuters) - It was a case of so near but yet so far for the United States men's 4x100 metres relay team at the London Olympics on Saturday after they were blown away by Usain Bolt.
By Mitch Phillips
LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt fittingly brought the Olympic track and field programme to a spectacular end on Saturday when he anchored Jamaica to a world record in the 4x100 metres relay to complete his extraordinary "double treble".
By Alison Wildey
LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt ended his London Games in glorious style on Saturday with a third gold and a world record as he anchored Jamaica to victory in a blistering men's 4x100 metres final in 36.84 seconds.
By Neil Maidment
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Mo Farah won the 5,000 metres title and his second Olympic gold medal with a sensational late charge on Saturday amid deafening roars from a crowd witnessing another contender for the greatest moment of the Games.
By Nick Mulvenney
LONDON (Reuters) - Allyson Felix claimed her third gold medal of the Games as the United States outclassed their rivals to win the women's 4x400 metres relay by some distance at the London Olympics on Saturday.
By Vincent Fribault
LONDON (Reuters) - Jamaican athletes, who have dominated the sprint events at the London Olympics should now expect more visits by drugs testers, former anti-doping chief Dick Pound said on Saturday.
By Nick Mulvenney
LONDON (Reuters) - Allyson Felix claimed her third gold medal of the Games as the United States outclassed their rivals to win the women's 4x400 metres relay by some distance at the London Olympics on Saturday.
By Justin Palmer
LONDON (Reuters) - Trinidad & Tobago's Keshorn Walcott completed a remarkable double by taking a surprise Olympic javelin gold on Friday, less than a month after becoming world junior champion.
By Justin Palmer
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian Mariya Savinova added Olympic gold to her world crown when she timed her run to perfection to secure an impressive 800 metres victory on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - World champion Anna Chicherova of Russia soared 2.05 metres on a breezy London evening to win gold in the women's high jump at the Olympics on Saturday.
Sixth in Athens and a bronze medallist in Beijing, the 30-year-old cleared the first five heights at the first time of asking before becoming the only woman to get over the bar at 2.05 on her second attempt.
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States won the women's 4x400 metres relay by some distance at the London Olympics on Saturday to give Allyson Felix her third gold medal of the Games.
Felix, who won the 200 metres individual title and was part of the 4x100m team that smashed the 27-year-old world record on Friday, ran the second leg as the Americans crossed the line first for the sixth successive Olympics.
By Justin Palmer
LONDON (Reuters) - Trinidad & Tobago's Keshorn Walcott completed a remarkable double by taking a surprise Olympic javelin gold on Friday, less than a month after becoming world junior champion.
By Justin Palmer
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian Mariya Savinova added Olympic gold to her world crown when she timed her run to perfection to secure an impressive 800 metres victory on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - World champion Anna Chicherova of Russia soared 2.05 metres on a breezy London evening to win gold in the women's high jump at the Olympics on Saturday.
Sixth in Athens and a bronze medallist in Beijing, the 30-year-old cleared the first five heights at the first time of asking before becoming the only woman to get over the bar at 2.05 on her second attempt.
By Neil Maidment
LONDON (Reuters) - World champion Mo Farah secured Britain's first Olympic gold medal in the men's 5,000 metres on Saturday to deafening cheers, a week after winning gold in the 10,000.
By Mitch Phillips
LONDON (Reuters) - London 2012 Olympics head Sebastian Coe said he was "shocked" when he saw the Olympic stadium full to capacity on the opening morning of athletics, even though he was well aware that all 80,00 tickets had been sold.
By Alison Wildey
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian Yelena Lashmanova overhauled compatriot Olga Kaniskina in a thrilling final few metres to win the Olympic women's 20-km walk in a world record time of one hour 25 minutes two seconds on Saturday.
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