The impossible job: can Femke Bol really beat McLaughlin-Levrone?

Women’s 400m hurdles rivals have not met since 2022 – their race is sure to be one of the showdowns of the Olympics

Team GB sweep up three more golds and make fast track start on fab Friday

Britain’s runners made a blistering start to the track events in the Stade de France building on seven medals including three golds claimed by Team GB on a fabulous Friday in Paris

History maker: USA’s Grant Fisher takes bronze in men’s 10,000m at Paris Olympics

Fisher became only the fourth US male to medal in the 10,000m at the Olympics, winning bronze in a tight photo-finish with Ethiopa’s Berihu Aregawi

First athletics world record falls as athletes praise fast Olympic track

The Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei won the 10,000m in an Olympic record as excitement over fast Paris track grows

USA’s Noah Lyles: manga geek, alpha male and very, very fast

The world champion sprinter often comes across as a stereotypical arrogant American athlete. But he is also willing to show his vulnerable side

These are the slowest fastest women on Earth. And they have a story to tell

From American Samoa’s Filomenaleonisa Iakopo to Kimia Yousofi of Afghanistan, the roads to the 100m are diverse

Afghanistan 100m runner Kimia Yousofi sends Olympic message to the Taliban

Kimia Yousofi, part of the six-person Afghan team competing in Paris, had a message for the Taliban after her 100m heat

Rising stars of track and field give Australia hope for athletics success at Paris 2024

A squad bolstered by young talent and a resurgence in middle distance running can improve on the trio of Olympic medals won three years ago

‘Fast, expensive … fancy’: How Sha’Carri Richardson revived her Olympic dream

The American sprinter was at rock bottom when a positive marijuana test ended her hopes before the Tokyo Olympics. She has reinvented herself since

Loud and proud track and field enters Olympic fray full of star quality

Noah Lyles, Keely Hodgkinson and Julien Alfred are among medal hopefuls who could become household names in Paris

Ingebrigtsen v Kerr: bickering rivals ready for titanic 1500m battle on track

Echoes of Coe v Ovett abound as Norwegian great looks to take down Brit who beat him to world championship glory

‘It’s always going to be me’: Noah Lyles defends fastest man in world claim

The American sprinter says he’s the fastest man in the world despite Kishane Thompson clocking a quicker time this year

Revealed: how a Kenyan runner turned undercover agent to lift the lid on dopers

Special report A meeting in a New York coffee shop helped US investigators get the inside track on a network of doping and the agents that prey on vulnerable athletes

Olympic mind Games: 10 ways athletes try to gain a psychological edge

From meticulous preparation to sandbagging, breaking down the psychic toolbox competitors in Paris will be working with