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The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the IAAF World Championships, Daegu 2011, is today celebrating ‘500 days to go' to their hosting of the championships next year (27 August to 4 September 2011).

The IAAF's annual worldwide festival of youth, the IAAF World Athletics Day, remains as popular as ever, with 161 of the 213 IAAF Member Federations requesting to participate in 2010.

The IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha which will take place from 12 to 14 March 2010 are expected to become the biggest gathering in terms of participating nations in the history of these championships, exceeding the previous record set two years ago in Valencia.

Kenyan Edwin Soi has won the 2009 BOclassic New Year Eve run in Bozen/Bolzano (Italy) in a time of 28.44.3.

With just about three weeks before the 35th edition of the BOclassic, the international New Year's Eve run in Bozen/Bolzano, the line-up is gradually becoming more concrete.

Kenya's former World champion Luke Kibet, despite being troubled by an achilles tendon injury suffered in March, retained the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon today in a new course record time.

Reigning champion Edwin Sol of Kenya has confirmed he would participate in the 35th edition of the BOclassic - the international New Year's Eve Run on Bozen's Walther Square in Brixen/Bressanone, South Tyrol, Italy.

Two-times Olympic marathon silver medallist and world champion Catherine Ndereba will bid for the Bupa Great South Run title on Sunday 25 October in Portsmouth, says organisers.

Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie won his fourth successive Berlin Marathon title but missed out on breaking his own world record this morning.

Kenya's former world half marathon champion Martin Lel marked his recovery from hip injury to win the 2009 Bupa Great North Run, the world’s biggest half marathon, in Newcastle upon Tyne, today.