Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya's appeal against a regulation restricting testosterone levels in female runners began on Monday - as the head of world athletics again defended the rule. South African Semenya, 28, is...

Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera upstaged compatriot Yomif Kejelcha to break the long-standing world indoor 1500m record at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Birmingham, UK on Saturday, NAN reports. Kejelcha, who last week came...

The South African government is going to spend an estimated R25-million ($1.7million) in their court battle against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)‚ where they are defending 800-meter world and Olympic champion Caster Semenya, Sowetan Live...

South African 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya on Thursday said she was “unquestionably a woman,” after the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) denied reports that it would argue that she should be classified as a biological male.

Like every nation will note, it is incredibly difficult, sometimes, downright impossible to have a sporting year of uninterrupted, unfiltered excellence across board or even in an area of sport. As it is, Nigeria is no exception.

It was such a surreal spectacle watching Ismail Sadjo ‘compete’ in the final of the 10,000 metres at the recently concluded 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja where he approached the race with such lightheartedness, one actually...

A number of athletes at the on-going 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja say they are getting worried at the quality and performance of the officials at the competition. A cross-section of the athletes told...

Olympics and World Championships medallist Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor on Thursday lamented on the lack of fans at venues to cheer competing athletes at the on-going 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja. The athlete spoke at the...

Usheoritse Itsekiri of Team Rivers and Margaret Bukola Bolutife of Team Ondo upset the odds to create a new order in the men and women’s 100m final at the ongoing 2018 National Sports Festival in Abuja.

“I just had to this to make so many people in my life proud,”