Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones signs a contract to play with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock in a bid to revive her athletic career.

World triple jump champion Phillips Idowu withdraws from the World Indoor Championships in Doha next weekend.

British indoor hurdling champion Callum Priestley has been suspended by the UKA after failing a doping test.

China's former Olympic champion Liu Xiang will defend his 60 metres hurdles title at the World Indoor Championships in Doha next week, according to the IAAF website.

Japan's Masakazu Fujiwara wins a rainy Tokyo Marathon amid tsunami warnings following a massive earthquake in Chile.

Former world indoor champion Bernard Lagat uses his miler's kick to win the 3,000 metres at the US selection meeting for next month's IAAF world indoor championships.

World 5,000 metres champion Vivian Cheruiyot and Commonwealth Games 5,000 title holder Augustine Choge will lead Kenya's seven-member team at next month's World Indoor Championships in Doha.

Kenyan Florence Kiplagat will not defend her world eight kms cross country title in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on March 28.

Helen Clitheroe claims 1,500 metres gold at the Aviva World Indoor Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield.

Triple world and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt opens his season with a meet record 45.86 seconds for 400 metres at the Camperdown Classic.

Dwain Chambers's UK Indoor moves him to the top of the world standings for the 60 metres. His time of 6.50 seconds is the best in the world so far this season.

World heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis withdraws from this weekends UK Indoor Championships and World Trials with a foot injury.

Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva easily wins the Moscow invitational meeting with a season's best 4.85 metres but fails to better her own indoor world record.

American Bernard Lagat makes a blistering kick to crush the US record in his first indoor 5,000m, finishing in 13:11.50 at the 15th Boston Indoor Games.

The United States could lose another Olympic relay gold medal because of a doping suspension handed down to the 2004 women's 4x400 metres relay alternate Crystal Cox.

Haile Gebrselassie completes hat-trick of Dubai Marathon victories but Ethiopian's hopes of setting new world record are dashed by a bad back. The world champion crosses the finish line in 2:06:09, 14 seconds ahead of Kenya's Chala Dechase Beyene but more than two minutes slower than his own record.

Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt is unlikely to compete at October's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi because of the timing of the event, according to his agent Ricky Simms.

Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba storms through the snow to take victory at the Great Edinburgh International Cross Country.

World bronze medallist Carmelita Jeter will return to defend her Aviva Grand Prix 60m title at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on February 20.

Recently-crowned European cross country champion Hayley Yelling is set to compete at the BOClassic International on New Year's Eve in Bolzano, Italy.