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Christine Ohuruogu finishes third in Diamond League meeting in Stockholm

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The Olympians return to action as Ohuruogu finishes third in Stockholm

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23:20 GMT, 17 August 2012

Olympic silver medallist Christine Ohuruogu was third in the 400 metres on her return to competition following London 2012 at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm.

The 28-year-old was second behind Sanya Richards-Ross at the London Games, and the American again triumphed tonight in 49.89 seconds, with Botswana's world champion Amantle Montsho in second.

Ohuruogu completed the podium in a time of 50.77secs.

Re-match: Sanya Richards-Ross wins the 400m with Christine Ohuruogu coming third

Re-match: Sanya Richards-Ross wins the 400m with Christine Ohuruogu coming third

Adam Gemili just missed out on making the 100m final at the Olympic stadium and on Friday he was fifth in 10.22 as his burgeoning career continued in Sweden.

The world junior champion is only completing his first full season in the sport but he has shown no fear against his more decorated rivals and tonight he was 0.10 off the podium.

The United States' Ryan Bailey – fifth in London – won in 9.93 ahead of Nesta Carter and Michael Frater, both of whom were part of the Jamaican 4x100m relay that set a new world record.

Winning in style: USA's Ryan Bailey won the 100m in Stockholm

Winning in style: USA's Ryan Bailey won the 100m in Stockholm

Britain's Shara Proctor was fourth in the women's long jump with a best effort of 6.68m, just one centimetre off the top three. Yelena Sokolova, silver medallist in London, was first with 6.82m, with Olympic champion Brittney Reese down in ninth.

Holly Bleasdale, sixth in the capital, returned to action in the pole vault to finish seventh with 4.46m.

Olympic champion Jen Suhr showed she signs of a victory hangover as she failed to record a height tonight after removing the bar three times at 4.55m.

Elsewhere, Olympic finalist Laura Weightman was eighth in the women's 1,500m in 4:06.09.

London 2102 Olympics: Mo Farah and Usain Bolt give golden ending to Games

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Golden greats: Mo stuns the world by doing long-distance double as sprint king Bolt sets new record

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23:57 GMT, 11 August 2012

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Mo Farah and Usain Bolt provided an extraordinary finale to the track programme of the Olympic Games with a fourth athletics gold medal for Britain and a relay world record for Jamaica.

With the curtain coming down on a universally acclaimed London Games on Sunday, Farah held his nerve in a final lap of the 5,000m to become the seventh man in history to win the 5,000m-10,000m double — and dedicated his two medals to his twin girls, who are due to be born in 12 days.

Bolt, in what may be his farewell to the Olympics, then anchored a Jamaican quartet of Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake to break their own world record with 36.84sec in the 4x100m, beating the Americans, who also broke the old world record in 37.04sec.

Trading places: Mo Farah celebrates with Usain Bolt's trademark Lightening Strike while the Jamaican sprinter copies the Brit's Mo-Bot celebration

Trading places: Mo Farah celebrates with Usain Bolt's trademark Lightening Strike while the Jamaican sprinter copies the Brit's Mo-Bot celebration

In the record books: Bolt poses on the podium after winning the men's 4X100 relay

In the record books: Bolt poses on the podium after winning the men's 4X100 relay

Boxer Luke Campbell added to the British gold haul, realising his lifetime dream as he floored Ireland’s John Joe Nevin on his way to a 14-11 victory and the Olympic bantamweight title at ExCeL on Saturday night.

Earlier Ed McKeever had powered to victory in the men’s 200m kayak canoeing, the 28-year-old dominating the K1 single final with Spaniard Saul Craviotto Rivero taking silver and Canada’s Mark de Jonge bronze.

Farah received the loudest acclaim of the night as he sprinted for gold and said: ‘The crowd were amazing. They made an incredible noise. These medals are for my two girls, who haven’t been born yet, hopefully. They could arrive any time in the next 12 days. It’s amazing.

Boxing to gold: Luke Campbell won gold in the boxing ring

Boxing to gold: Luke Campbell won gold in the boxing ring

'They’re twins so there’s one for each.’

As for his short-term future on the track, Farah said: 'I don’t know what’s going on. I’m taking one race at a time. The Olympics doesn’t come round often. It's all worked out well.

'I’m just amazed. Two gold medals — who would have thought that

'I just want to thank everyone who’s supported me. All my coaches from previous years and all the people who’ve been involved in my life. I can’t thank everybody enough.

Paddle power: Ed Mckeever celebrates after winning the gold medal in the kayak single 200-meter men's final

Paddle power: Ed Mckeever celebrates after winning the gold medal in the kayak single 200-meter men's final

'I want to say particularly to my wife, with her carrying twins, it hasn’t been easy but I didn’t want to know about it.

'If anything happens she promised she wouldn’t let me know so I’m glad it all worked out well.’

He added: ‘It’s been a long journey, grafting and grafting, but anything is possible.'

London 2012 Olympics: Yohan Blake sends Usain Bolt message

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Blake sends Bolt sprint message with 9.85sec run in Lucerne

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22:34 GMT, 17 July 2012

Yohan Blake warmed up for London by winning the 100 metres in 9.85sec at a Lucerne meet on Monday in his first competitive race since beating Usain Bolt twice at the Jamaican Olympic trials.

Blake, 21, was far from the fastest out of the blocks but powered through the field with legal wind assistance of 1.6m per second.

Jamaica team-mate Michael Frater was second in 10.00sec.

Bolt of lightning: Blake is in fine form heading to London Games

Bolt of lightning: Blake is in fine form heading to London Games

'I am on the right path for the Olympics,' the world champion said. 'This is where I am supposed to be. I want to remain unbeaten and that's what I am doing.'

Blake chose the low-key Spitzen Leichtathletik meeting to make what is expected to be his only appearance between the trials and the London Games.

London 2012 Olympic Watch: Yohan Blake makes flying start

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London 2012 Olympic Watch: Blake's flying start gives warning to his sprint rivals

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22:33 GMT, 15 April 2012

World 100metres champion Yohan Blake opened his year with the fastest time ever run this early in a season of 9.90sec before claiming he could have run quicker.

Blake then followed his individual feat at the UTech Invitational in Kingston, Jamaica, by running in a 4x100m relay team which Usain Bolt anchored to a time of 37.82sec, good enough to have won the silver medal at last year’s world championships.

As two of Jamaica’s world champion quartet from Daegu, Mike Frater and
Nesta Carter, were running in a second placed foursome with Briton Dwain Chambers and former world record holder Asafa Powell, Jamaica’s first
team look odds-on to break their world record of 37.04sec again in the
London Games in August.

Fine start: World champion Yohan Blake is already looking good this year

Fine start: World champion Yohan Blake is already looking good this year

Daley back on board

Tom Daley is getting back to his best. He won his season’s third silver
diving medal at the World Cup in Moscow, scoring 520.95 points. Only the Chinese have finished ahead of Daley from the platform this season.

Kate cleans up in Russia

Kate Driscoll, Britain's hope for Olympic gold in London, performed a
clean routine without flaws to lead Britain to gold in the women’s team event at the European trampoline championships in St Petersburg.

Race hots up for Ethiopians

Yemane Tsegay ran the ninth fastest marathon ever of 2hr 4min 47sec in Rotterdam on Sunday. However, the Ethiopian cannot be certain of his Olympic place. Two compatriots are faster this year and others may be in Boston on Monday and London next Sunday.

Winner: Yemane Tsegay crosses the line first in Rotterdam on Sunday

Winner: Yemane Tsegay crosses the line first in Rotterdam on Sunday

Jenkins pipped in triathlon

Britain's world champion Helen Jenkins finished second by nine seconds to Australian Erin Densham in the first of the world championships triathlon series in Sydney. GB’s world champion Alistair Brownlee and his brother Jonny did not participate in the men’s event.

Aussie Rules: Erin Densham claimed victory ahead of Helen Jenkins in Sydney

Aussie Rules: Erin Densham claimed victory ahead of Helen Jenkins in Sydney

Murray so close to a medal

British Olympic modern pentathlon team contender Samantha Murray rose from 20th place to finish fourth in the World Cup in Hungary with a brilliant run-shoot in which she hit all final five targets in just 10 seconds. It equalled the best performance of her career.