Expectations are high for US 800m star Ajee’ Wilson this summer and she will get a chance to impress in front of a home audience at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on 30 May after the meeting organisers announced their women’s 800m field on Wednesday (22).

St Kitts’ sprinter Kim Collins continued to astound and defy Father Time at the traditional Russian Winter meeting, the second of the 2015 IAAF Indoor Permit meetings, which ironically fell on the warmest February day for many years in Moscow with temperatures about 3 degrees Celsius outside the CSKA Arena on Sunday (1).

London 2012 Olympic Games champion Mariya Savinova will aim to maintain her stranglehold of global 800m championship competition by securing back-to-back world titles in front of her adoring home supporters in Moscow.

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Olympic bronze medallist Yekaterina Poistogova and Yuriy Borzakovskiy were the standout performers at the ‘Cup of the Head of the Republic of Chuvashiya’, a new athletics tournament that was launched this weekend in the town of Novocheboksarsk.

The Yalamov Memorial is the first of the 2013 “Christmas Starts” series, and today (7) the 22nd edition of the meeting was held in Yekaterinburg.