Endurance events have become popular in Ireland but you must prepare properly

Keith Duggan: Ireland continues to exceed expectation across a variety of sports

American coach challenges ban for breaching doping regulations

Salazar counts Olympic champion Mo Farah among top distance runners he’s coached

There was a decent return for the small Irish team of just eight athletes

Outstanding Hassan, like Farah, is a product of the coach’s Nike Oregon Project

Nike Oregon Project head coach banned for four years for multiple doping violations

He has coached some of the world’s top distance runners including Mo Farah

No medal for Norway’s Ingebrigtsen brothers as Africans confirm their superiority

Sunday almost saw a marathon record set for fastest man dressed as a landmark building

42-year-old runs a personal best of 2:24:11 as Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei takes the top prize

Mo Farah ends a difficult week by finishing fifth while Brigid Kosgei takes women’s race

35-year-old could bid to defend 10,000m title in October after switching to the marathon

Sprinting, fartlek and Romanian deadlifts – getting better at running long distances

Shoes, energy drinks and a strong mindset make the two hour barrier a real target

Northern Ireland’s Emma Mitchell finished eighth in the women’s race

British runner finished third in London but was quite a way off the pace of Kipchoge

British runner never really had a chance against the impressive Kenyan but took third place

Mo Farah and the London marathon, goodbye to Arsène Wenger - hello to the Crucible

A British parliamentary report has taken aim at some of the country’s most successful athletes

Ethiopian's coach Jama Adem still under investigation by anti-doping authorities

Quorn is becoming a billion-dollar business and is part of a booming industry of meat alternatives – but many of these products are far from natural

Mo Farah and Usain Bolt bid farewell, but not in the manner most had expected them to

King of the track, knight of the realm, one-man medal factory wins BBC award

Runner upset the odds to take award with Anthony Joshua not even in the top three

British runner returning to UK and ending association with Nike Oregon Project

Boosting your stores of brown fat can help to keep you trim

Former 400m great tweets ‘£27m investment. I’d be concerned.’

‘History doesn’t lie. What I achieved over the years, people are proud of me’

Farah loses out to Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris in 5,000m final at World Championships

Sprint legend pulls up injured on his final ever competitive appearance

Botswanan says he is ‘running with anger’ after he stole the show on a sodden day

Treatment of Gatlin in stark contrast to the refusal to ask questions about Mo Farah’s coach

London’s Olympic Stadium the venue for the biggest global sporting event of the year

A third 5,000/10,000m double at the World Championships would be some way to bow out

American sprinter believes his great rival will find it hard to resist the call of the track

New York agog as muscle-bound newcomer rips up the record book with relish

Move coincides with Nike’s ambitious project to see two-hour mark for the race broken

Performance director says they are “really confident” that they did nothing wrong

Sunday Times report says coach Salazar ‘almost certainly’ broke anti-doping rules