This sudden, unexpected tragedy has traumatised the national psyche.

New Zealand women's hockey player Anita Punt had often wondered how competitive she would be as a track sprinter and yesterday found the answer: very.

Olympic 1500m semifinalist Lucy van Dalen will compete in the Queen St Golden Mile in April.

This will forever be remembered as the year in which a sporting legend was brought down. American Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and multiple Tour de France winner, was crushed by an inquiry into doping.

Valerie Adams became the first woman in New Zealand's long and proud Olympic history to defend a title.

Editorial: New Zealanders will be surprised and disappointed at remarks by Sir Peter Snell during an international athletics function in Barcelona at the weekend.

Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams and Raylene Bates are still friends, embracing each other when they met for the first time since the London Games.

Olympic gold medalist Valerie Adams is one of the three finalists for the IAAF's Woman Athlete of the Year award.

Our first female Olympic champion Yvette Corlett credits lateral thinking of coach and wife for harnessing her talent.

It wasn't the cool Auckland weather that gave Usain Bolt the chills today, rather a haka performed by staff at the Frucor beverages factory in south Auckland.

Usain Bolt arrives in Auckland today on a whirlwind promotional visit, as experts debate whether he's close to achieving the maximum in human performance.