North Yorkshire Athletics network ran an Aviva Startrack scheme at York St John University, signpositng 27 young attendees - aged 8 to 15 years - to City of York AC, many showing real potential. 

A number of wheelchair racing training sessions and "come and try" sessions will be taking place in Leeds over the next few months.  There will be six Saturday afternoons at the John Charles Centre for Sport for athetes to train.

This winter a series of throws workshops will be taking place, led by some of the top throws coaches in the country, including Malcolm Fenton, National Coach Mentor; plus Gary Howe (Discus), Rob Earle (Hammer) and Leroy Alison (Shot) who are all part of the National Coach Development Programme.

Leanne Brown joined the Wreake Runners Syston Run in England group to try and improve her running which she had started some weeks earlier.

Michael Del Monte, a 24-year-old postgraduate from the University of Toronto flew into the UK on 1 September to spend four months working and training in and around Bradford.

3 Friday 2010 - With potentially up to a dozen Samsung Diamond League winners in action led by the second fastest man in history Tyson Gay, day one of the revamped IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup promises to serve up some top quality fare in the Croatian seaport of Split.  

3 September 2010 – Split, Croatia - World 800m record-holder David Rudisha has met Wilson Kipketer, the former World Record-holder, on several occasions before today’s press conference for the IAAF VTB Bank Continental Cup, but this weekend will be the first time that Kipketer has watched Rudisha compete in person since the young Kenyan’s breakthrough as the world’s leading two-lap runner.

3 September 2010 - Split, Croatia – When strolling the charming streets of this historic Dalmatian seaside resort town, it doesn’t take long to figure out that local girl Blanka Vlasic has a very important date on Sunday at Split’s Poljud Stadium.

GB's impressive European Championships reflected in strong presence at IAAF Continental Cup in Split.

Full schedule for the IAAF Continental Cup meeting at the City Stadium in Split, Croatia on Sept 4 and 5 2010.

Banned sprint hurdler claims food contamination could have led to positive test

European under-23 bronze medallist protests his innocence

GB's medal-winning athletes in action at the IAAF Continental Cup in Split. Watch it live on Telegraph.co.uk.

New world 800 metres record holder David Rudisha has withdrawn from Kenya's team for the Commonwealth Games.

British sprint hurdler Callum Priestley is banned for two years, and for life from the Olympics, after testing positive for a banned substance.

3 September 2010 – Split, Croatia - At today’s pre-event press conference ahead of the IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup in Split were US 110m hurdler and Samsung Diamond League winner David Oliver representing the Americas and World and Olympic Shot Put champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand competing for the Asia/Pacific team.

Telegraph.co.uk to stream IAAF event from Split

British hurdler Callum Priestley has been handed a two-year ban for testing positive for drugs.

Cambridge javelin thrower Goldie Sayers has no regrets about pulling out of October's Commonwealth Games.

• Callum Priestley also faces Olympic ban after using steroids
• 'This should act as a warning to all athletes' – anti-doping chief

British hurdler Callum Priestley has been given a two-year ban and faces a life-time Olympic ban after testing positive for drugs.

UK Anti-Doping confirmed the suspension will run until February 2012 after Priestley tested positive for Clenbuterol, the steroid used in asthma medicine, in South Africa earlier this year. Under British Olympic Association rules, the 21-year-old will also be ineligible for selection for London 2012 or any future Olympics.

"One of the important aspects of the Callum Priestley case is that he was tested off season, out-of-competition, and indeed outside of the UK," said the UK Anti-Doping chief executive Andy Parkinson. "This is in keeping with UK Anti-Doping's focus on targeted, out-of-competition testing across all sports in their off season. This case should act as a warning to all athletes that there is no hiding place from their responsibilities, no matter where they are, or whether they are competing."

The National Anti-Doping Panel's written decision says Priestley, who won the 60m hurdles at the world indoor trials in February, was unable to explain how the Clenbuterol came to be in his body. He initially suggested that the most likely source was contamination of supplements that he had been taking on the advice of a nutritionist, but scientific tests have failed to detect any trace of those.

"The athlete now believes that the most likely source was meat from animals or poultry which had been treated with steroids, but again it has not proved possible to produce any scientific or other evidence to substantiate the theory that any meat which he ate in South Africa was so contaminated," says the NADP report.

As Priestley was unable to prove no fault or negligence on his part, the panel imposed a two-year ban back-dated to February this year when he was initially suspended. He does have the right to appeal.

Priestley was coached by Lloyd Cowan, the UK Athletics performance coach who also trains Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu and sprinter Simeon Williamson.

"People say 'you must know everything', but you can't know everything with 15 athletes," said Cowan. "It's a shock. It's hard and, from a coach's point of view, it is stressful. Callum is just stepping on to the pathway to be an athlete and he had showed immense potential. I am worried about him."

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