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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Old guards Justin Gatlin, Asafa Powell hanging on for Games in 2021

At first glance, America's Justin Gatlin and Jamaica's Asafa Powell might seem like relics from a bygone age of sprinting. In reality, they're still in the mix — and not even a year-long postponement of the Tokyo Olympics is going to shut them down.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Canada's Andre De Grasse has opportunity to be part of sprint show after postponement of Games

Andre De Grasse now has the chance to be a major part of the sprint show at the Tokyo Games.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Usain Bolt picks USA's Christian Coleman as 100-metre favourite for showpiece event

Usain Bolt has some advice for speedy Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill: Forget trying to make the US team for the Tokyo Olympics.

World Athletics Championships 2019: Noah Lyles, Christian Coleman target Tokyo Olympics after US renaissance

Christian Coleman, the newly crowned 100m world champion, and Noah Lyles, the victor in the 200m, delivered performances in Doha that suggest they are capable of dominating for years to come.

World Athletics Championships 2019: Sifan Hassan leads round of golden doubles, calls herself 'clean athlete'

Sifan Hassan made light of the doping ban handed to her coach Alberto Salazar to complete a historic 1,500/10,000 metres double at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.

World Athletics Championships 2019: IAAF reduces use of new ‘crotch cameras’ after backlash from athletes

With cameras in the starting blocks peering up the legs of athletes into their eyes, television viewers have been taken closer to the action than ever before at the World Championships. Just too up close and personal for some athletes.

Sportswear giant Nike risks being burned by doping scandal surrounding Alberto Salazar and Oregon Project

With Nike-backed athletics coach Alberto Salazar slapped with a four-year ban for doping, the US sportswear giant risks being caught up in the scandal.

World Athletics Championships 2019: Organising committee blames late-evening start times, political boycott of Qatar for sparse crowd in stadium

The absence of cheering fans meant that the USA team which won the inaugural 4x400 metres mixed relay title on Sunday opted not to run a lap of honour

World Athletic Championships 2019: US sprinter Christian Coleman roars to 100m title, race walkers tame heat

Christian Coleman, who escaped a doping ban earlier this month on a technicality, swept over the 100m finish line in a world-leading personal best of 9.76sec to claim his first major outdoor championship gold medal.

World Athletics Championships 2019: Heat is on Christian Coleman and Worlds organisers in Doha

Christian Coleman will aim to clinch his first major championship outdoor title at the Khalifa Stadium, just weeks after escaping a lengthy anti-doping ban because of a technicality.