Mo Farah brings down the curtain on his peerless track career in Britain by winning his farewell race on home soil on an emotional afternoon at the Birmingham Grand Prix Diamond League meeting.

Athletics greats Allyson Felix and Caster Semenya lit up the track to bring the curtain down on the world championships in great style on Sunday.

Usain Bolt's dramatic and inglorious end to his top level career was the fault of world championship organisers, his furious team-mates claimed.

A sentimental Justin Gatlin hails Usain Bolt as an "amazing showman" whose career would certainly not be defined by him pulling up with cramp in the world 4x100m relay, the Jamaican's final competitive race.

British athletics legend Mo Farah narrowly fails to complete a fifth successive global double as he finishes second behind Ethiopian Muktar Edris in a thrilling 5,000 metres world final.

Usain Bolt's glittering career swansong comes crashing to an end as he pulls up with a leg cramp on the anchor leg of the world 4x100m relay won by Britain.

Usain Bolt and his Jamaican teammates stroll into the 4x100m final at the World Athletic Championships in London.

It will be the end of an era for athletics on today when Usain Bolt races for the last time in the men's 4x100 metres relay at the World Championships.

Usain Bolt will run in the 4x100 metres relay heats for Jamaica on Saturday despite being a bit sore after winning bronze in the 100m final at the weekend, he informs Reuters.

Usain Bolt rues a disastrous start as his failure to fire saw American arch-rival Justin Gatlin poop what was supposed to be a party in his final 100m race at the world championships.

British athletics legend Mo Farah won his 10th successive global title on Friday winning the 10,000 metres world crown at the London Stadium where he won Olympic gold in 2012.

British athletics legend Mo Farah won his 10th successive global title on Friday winning the 10,000 metres world crown at the London Stadium where he won Olympic gold in 2012.

Usain Bolt kicks off the defence of his world 100m in his swansong season, the first step to bringing down the curtain on his glittering career.

Usain Bolt's rivals will, for once, be glad to see the back of a man who has dominated global sprinting for the last decade but the sport of athletics will be far less enthusiastic about bidding a final farewell to the charismatic Jamaican.

The Japanese women’s volleyball team beat Italy 3-0 in the final of the 23rd Summer Deaflympics, an international competition for the hearing-impaired, in Samsun, Turkey. The gold medal was the team’s first in 16 years.

Britain's Adam Peaty says it was about time that he broke his own men's 50m breaststroke world-record in the heats of the world aquatic championships.

Jamaican sprinting legend Usain Bolt insists he is on the right path as he targets the defence of his 100m crown at next month's world championships in London.

Mezbahuddin Ahmed and Shirin Akter retain the titles for the fastest man and woman of the country on Saturday.

Jamaican sprinting legend Usain Bolt insists he is on the right path as he targets the defence of his 100m crown at next month's world championships in London.

Usain Bolt and Wayde van Niekerk, the man tipped to take over from the retiring Jamaican as track and field's next superstar, headline a glittering cast at today's Diamond League meeting in Monaco.