3 December 2008 - A renowned adage in the sports world explains that the real test of an athlete’s character comes not from the pressure of competition but from how they cope with the rigours of injury and disappointment, and Britain’s World 400m silver medallist Nicola Sanders knows all too well about this harsh side-effect of being a world class sprinter.

2 December 2008 - Brazilian Hederson Alves Estefani produced the best performance of the XIX South American Youth Championships (under 18 years of age) that took place in Lima on 29-30 November at the track of the “Villa Deportiva Nacional”, in the Peruvian capital.

1 December 2008 - Roeselare, Belgium - Veerle Dejaeghere won the Lotto Cross Cup - EAA XC Permit - in Roeselare on Sunday (30 Nov) after an impressive display of strength and endurance.

Leffrinckoucke, France - Ethiopian athletes swept all before them during the 17th edition of Cross de L'Acier, an EAA XC permit meeting, held on Sunday 30 November in Leffrinckoucke, northern France.

30 November 2008 - Daegu, Korea - Today, at the Novotel Daegu City Center, where the offices of the Local Organising Committee of the 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Daegu 2011 are located, a celebration was held to celebrate 1000 days to go to the championships.

30 November 2008 - Llodio, Spain - Ethiopia’s Tariku Bekele and Kenya’s Linet Masai captured top spots in style at the 25th ‘Cross Internacional Valle de Llodio’ - EAA XC Permit - held today (30) on a cold and rainy day for weather.

1 December 2008 - The 2008 ‘Toray Cup’ Shanghai International Marathon took place in Shanghai, China, yesterday (30 Nov), attracting 20,000 runners from 51 countries, a record number for the annual race which was being held for the 13th time.

30 November 2008 - Eldoret, Kenya - 2007 World Cross Country Championhips silver medallist Moses Mosop sent a strong signal of his intention to make the Kenyan team for next year’s edition of the World XC in Amman, Jordan (28 March), by taking a dominant victory in the men’s senior contest at the third edition of the annual Wareng Tuskys Cross Country race held today (30 Nov) in Eldoret.

30 November 2008 - Melbourne, Australia – Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie won today’s inaugural Great Australian Run in Melbourne over 15km, running 42:40, and leading over 4000 runners home.

30 November 2008 - Florence, Italy - Jackson Kirwa Kiprono, 22, from Kenya made a winning debut over the marathon distance, after a solid career in many half marathons and road races, when claiming victory in the 25th edition of the Florence Marathon in 2:12:37 on a cold, rainy day (30).

29 November 2008 – There were mixed fortunes for mountain running’s World champions, New Zealander Jonathan Wyatt and Andrea Mayr of Austria in Saturday’s Obudu Ranch Mountain Race which was held in Cross River state, Nigeria (29).

29 November 2008 – Meru, Kenya - Former World junior champion Pauline Korikwiang signalled her season’s intentions with a brilliant run to win the senior women’s eight-kilometre race at the third Athletics Kenya cross country championships meeting at the eastern Kenyan town of Meru on Saturday.

29 November 2008 – Melbourne, Australia – Several marquee athletes for Sunday’s inaugural HBA Great Australian Run met with the press yesterday (28)at the Park View Hotel in Melbourne. Marathon World record holder Haile Gebrselassie, Olympic marathon champion Constantina Dita, former World Cross Country Champion Benita Johnson and two-time World Cup champion Craig Mottram talked about their ambitions for Sunday’s 15 km race.

29 November 2008 - Christine Müller of Switzerland and Wolfgang Ritte of Germany have respectively been announced as the 2008 WMA Best Female and Best Male Master athletes.