World Athletics Championships

London will host the 2017 World Athletics Championships and Birmingham will host the 2018 World Indoor Athletics Championships. Mo makes his marathon debut in London on April 13. He will face Olympic and World champion Stephen Kiprotich and World record holder Wilson Kipsang. Could be a classic.

Kentucky v Louisville

They are two of the fiercest rivals in College Basketball. The history of the ‘Dream Game’ continues as the 2013 NCAA champions take on the 2012 NCAA champions at Rupp Arena in Lexington! The documentary film Red V Blue, about the history of the rivalry, had it’s premiere in Lexington on Friday. It will also be shown in Louisville at the Muhammad Ali Center on Sunday.

Kentucky 73
Louisville 66

Mile

Just 17, Jim Ryun became the world’s youngest sub four – minute miler 50 years ago, ten years after Roger Bannister became the world’s first sub four – minute miler in Oxford, England. There is no unit of measurement in the world that holds as much mystique and history as the mile – and no event in track and field that has sparked as much enthusiasm and folklore.

BBC SPOTY

After becoming the first British man to win Wimbledon for 77 years,
Andy Murray joins that elite list of British sporting legends.

BBC Sports Personality

60th BBC Sports Personality 1954 – 2013
Athletics has won twice as much as any other sport
1954 Chris Chataway * 1955 Gordon Pirie * 1963 Dorothy Hyman * 1964 Mary Rand * 1968 David Hemery * 1972 Mary Peters * 1974 Brendan Foster * 1978 Steve Ovett * 1979 Sebastian Coe * 1982 Daley Thompson * 1983 Steve Cram * 1987 Fatima Whitbread * 1991 Liz McColghan * 1993 Linford Christie * 1995 Jonathon Edwards * 2002 Paula Radcliffe * 2004 Kelly Holmes

Nelson Mandela

1918 – 2013

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

NCAA XC Championships

Kate Avery becomes the first British woman to win a medal in the NCAA Cross Country Championships, finishing third at Terra Haute, Indiana. She has been selected for Sunday’s European Cross Country Championships.