Barbara Parker hopes working with a sport psychologist will help improve her times in the 3,000 metre steeplechase.

BBC Radio 5 live's Mike Costello spends time with top GB distance runners in their 'monastic' Kenyan training camp

UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee believes that 5,000m world champion Mo Farah is "a complete athlete".

Great Britain 400m runner Andrew Steele, from Didsbury, says he is targeting a medal at London 2012 after recovering from illness.

Asafa Powell predicts a Jamaican clean sweep of the 100m medals at London 2012 after winning the US Open 50m.

Mo Farah begins Olympic year with victory in the 1500m as Great Britain win the indoor Aviva International Match in Glasgow.

Jessica Ennis's failure at the World Championships in Daegu is driving her quest for a gold medal at London 2012, according to her coach.

IOC president Jacques Rogge expects some athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs at the London Olympics.

Mo Farah's Olympic rival Kenenisa Bekele has his suspension lifted by Ethiopia's athletics governing body.

GB heptathlete Louise Hazel turns to local sponsors to keep her Olympic dream alive following lottery funding cut.

Marathon runner Andrew Lemoncello aims to resurrect his Olympic dream by competing in the 10,000 metres at London 2012.

Pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale smashes her own British indoor record and moves to second on the all-time world list with a clearance of 4.87m in Lyon.

London Marathon record-holder Emmanuel Mutai will defend his title on 22 April in a field featuring world record-holder Patrick Makau.

British sprinter Bernice Wilson's four-year suspension is upheld after she loses her appeal against a doping ban.