16 January 2010:  Confusion reigns over whether South African athlete Caster Semenya can return to competition.  Earlier this week the sport's world governing body, the IAAF, said she could run again while it investigated her gender but later the South African Olympic Committee claimed she was not free to run until the IAAF had made a definitive decision.

19-year-old Semenya won the 800m at the World Championships in Berlin last August but it later transpired that just hours before she competed the IAAF demanded that the athlete take a gender test due to concerns that she was not eligible to compete as a woman.

25 August:  Extend the length of the sandpit and watch out if you're sitting in the front rows at the start of the home straight.  Usain Bolt has set his sights on the long jump.  After smashing the world records for the 100m and 200m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, the 23-year-old Jamaican has said that he would like to compete in the long jump and 400m.  "I'd love to try the long jump before I retire," he said, "because I think I'd be very good at it."  Mike Powell currently holds the record for the long jump with 8 metres 95 and he thinks Bolt could break the 9 metre mark.  At 6 feet 5 inches the Jamaican is perfectly equipped to steal the record.  And never mind 9 metres.  Lengthen the sandpit or he might sail right over the top.