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Kenya's Evans Cheruiyot will return to the 2011 Chicago Marathon after missing the race since his 2008 triumph due to injury, organisers of the October 9 race said on Wednesday.

The Olympic Day celebration in Lausanne included the presentation of the IOC's 2011 Women and Sport Awards, with Tegla Loroupe from Kenya winning the world trophy.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today launched the bid process for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in 2020. National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have been invited to submit the name of one city within their jurisdiction as an applicant to host the Games in a little under nine years’ time.

The NOCs have until 1 September 2011 to submit the name of an Applicant City, and these cities will then be required to submit their application files and guarantee letters to the IOC by 15 February 2012. The election of the Host City for the 2020 Olympic Games will take place on 7 September 2013 during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The key phases and dates of the procedure are as follows:

Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie clinches the BUPA Great Manchester Run win yesterday in 28 minutes and 10 seconds ahead of Briton Chris Thomson (28:21) and Ukraine's Sergiy Lebid (28:25).

Kenyan Grace Momanyi will join an international field that include Ethiopian Berhane Adere, who will be chasing a third Manchester success, for the BUPA Great Manchester 10K race on Saturday May 15, 2011.

The BIG 25 Berlin have confirmed its position as the world's leading 25K race. Despite the warm weather, world leads for the men and women were established at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

Half a dozen world records were broken at the BIG 25 Berlin so far. It was a year ago, when Germany's oldest big city road race had its greatest day regarding winning times.

The 9th World Conference on Sport and the Environment concluded today in Doha, Qatar, with the sports world renewing its commitment to the environment by framing a clear agenda for action.

About 159 of the IAAF's 212 Member Federations have entered to take part in the 2011 edition of the IAAF World Athletics Day.

About 159 of the IAAF's 212 Member Federations have entered to take part in the 2011 edition of the IAAF World Athletics Day.

Track and Field athletes are to run fewer rounds after the IAAF revamped and revolutionised competition timetables for Daegu 2011 World Championships & London 2012 Olympics.

The 36th edition of the BOclassic, Bozen/Bolzano's international New Year's Eve Run was dominated by Africans with the two world best runners Vivian Cheruiyot and Imane Merga snatching close victories.

The 36th edition of the international New Year's Eve run BOclassic in Bozen/Bolzano may more than ever be considered as the best cast in the world with Vivian Cheruiyot, Imane Merga and Edwin Soi in action.

Defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist, Edwin Soi from Kenya, has set a record win target for the 36th edition of the International New Year's Eve Run BOclassic in Bozen, Italy.

For the past four years the number one 100m sprinter of the season has gone on to become the World Athlete of the Year: Asafa Powell in 2006; Tyson Gay in 2007 and Usain Bolt the last two editions.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today revealed its ticket pricing structure across the 26 sports of the Olympic Games for the 2012 event in the British capital.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the IAAF World Championships, Daegu 2011, is today celebrating ‘500 days to go' to their hosting of the championships next year (27 August to 4 September 2011).

The IAAF's annual worldwide festival of youth, the IAAF World Athletics Day, remains as popular as ever, with 161 of the 213 IAAF Member Federations requesting to participate in 2010.

The IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha which will take place from 12 to 14 March 2010 are expected to become the biggest gathering in terms of participating nations in the history of these championships, exceeding the previous record set two years ago in Valencia.

Kenyan Edwin Soi has won the 2009 BOclassic New Year Eve run in Bozen/Bolzano (Italy) in a time of 28.44.3.

With just about three weeks before the 35th edition of the BOclassic, the international New Year's Eve run in Bozen/Bolzano, the line-up is gradually becoming more concrete.

Kenya's former World champion Luke Kibet, despite being troubled by an achilles tendon injury suffered in March, retained the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon today in a new course record time.

Reigning champion Edwin Sol of Kenya has confirmed he would participate in the 35th edition of the BOclassic - the international New Year's Eve Run on Bozen's Walther Square in Brixen/Bressanone, South Tyrol, Italy.

Two-times Olympic marathon silver medallist and world champion Catherine Ndereba will bid for the Bupa Great South Run title on Sunday 25 October in Portsmouth, says organisers.

Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie won his fourth successive Berlin Marathon title but missed out on breaking his own world record this morning.

Kenya's former world half marathon champion Martin Lel marked his recovery from hip injury to win the 2009 Bupa Great North Run, the world’s biggest half marathon, in Newcastle upon Tyne, today.

Tomorrow’s 68th edition of the Internationales Stadionfest DKB-ISTAF will present some of the meeting’s strongest entry lists ever and a highly dramatic kick-off in the fight for the jackpot of the ÅF Golden League, filled with one million US-dollars in Gold.

This time around, in the Berlin Athletics Championship year 2009 (August 15th to 23rd), the by far largest German track-and-field meeting will become the outdoor season’s first major international, high-class competition event.

The traditional DKB-ISTAF – ranked fourth in 2008, based on international points for athletic performances – will host more than 280 athletes from around the world. It will be staged this coming Sunday, June 14th 2009, starting at noon (main competitions to begin at 1 pm) at the historic Olympic Stadium of the German capital.

Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare of University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) is one of four track and field women athletes nominated for the Collegiate Women Sports Award presented by Honda to the top NCAA Division I female athletes in their sport.

Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie has won the 2009 Great Manchester Run 10km race in a time of 27 minutes 39 seconds, but hope of regaining his World 10km record was dashed by a strong headwind in Manchester city centre for the second part of the race.

The  executive committee approves enhanced international data protection standard at the end of its meetings held last week in Montreal, Canada.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has organized a number of events for the media in relation to its Executive Committee and Foundation Board meetings, to be held respectively on Saturday, May 9, and Sunday, May 10, in Montreal, Canada.

Kenyan Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru wins the men's 2009 Flora London Marathon in a course-record time of 2:05.10 in sunny and still conditions.

160 out of 213 IAAF’s Member Federations will celebrate the IAAF World Athletics Day in the weekend of Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May, 2009, according to the IAAF.org.

Green Africa Foundation, an initiative which was supported by the IAAF as part of its sustainable development initiatives, wins the IOC award for Sport and the Environment at the World Conference on Sport and Environment in Vancouver, Canada.

When Meseret Defar smashed the World indoor 5000m record* on Wednesday, running 14:24.37 in Stockholm, it confirmed a stellar start to the year after a 2008 that saw her lose both her outdoor World record and 2004 Olympic gold medal over the distance to fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba.

WADA Executive Committee Approves 2009 Prohibited List, New Delhi Laboratory Accreditation, International Standard for the Protection of Privacy.

WADA Executive committee sets to meet in Montreal to discuss the 2009 prohibited drugs list, and the new international standard for the protection of privacy on September 20.

Madrid 2016 bid organisers set to take lessons of Beijing Paralympics to the future.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announces its first sponsorship arrangement with Lenovo, a major step to involve corporate support in raising awareness and promoting clean sport.

WADA President calls on nations and sports federations to send clean athletes to Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games in new B-Roll.

Germany's Sabrina Mockenhaupt, 27, wins the 21st Austrian Women’s Run 2008, finishing the 5k elite run in 15:57.06.

WADA Executive Committee and Board to Discuss Enforcement of Investigations Strategies, Code Compliance, Current Anti-Doping Issues in Sport on May 10-11 in Montreal.

Martin Lel outsprints Sammy Wanjiru to win the Flora London Marathon for the third time in four years, with Gete Wami limping home third in 2:25:37 after earlier falling at a drinks station.

The IAAF releases detailed statistics of its 2007 anti-doping programme including testing numbers, concluded positive cases and a list of athletes tested out-of-competition.