PIX: Mo Farah signs off illustrious career with fourth-place finish

IMAGE: Running great Mo Farah brought the curtains down on an illustrious career with a fourth place finish at the Great North Run half-marathon in Newcastle. Photographs: Lee Smith/Reuters......

PICS: Kenyans Jepchirchir, Chebet win Boston Marathon

IMAGE: Kenya's Evans Chebet and Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir celebrate with trophy after winning the elite men's and women's race at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday.......

Kenya's Jepchirchir wins women's marathon with late burst

IMAGE: Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir celebrates as she breasts the tape first in the Olympics women's marathon, at Sapporo Odori Park, in Sapporo, Japan, on Saturday. Photograph: Feline Lim/Reuters......

Duplantis and Rojas are world athletes of the year

IMAGE: Armand Duplantis, a world silver medallist in Doha last year, set a world record by clearing 6.17m in Torun, Poland, in February and then bettered that by one centimetre in Glasgow the same......

PICS: Pandemic Games end as Tokyo douses Olympic flame

Images from Sunday's closing ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics. IMAGE: A General view of the fireworks during the closing ceremony at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday. Photograph: Maxim......