THE return of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships to Scotland 30 years after it was last staged here brings international competition in the toughest running discipline

THERE are only two Scots in the British team for tomorrow's World Cross Country Championships in Holyrood Park and neither is from Edinburgh.

FORMER rowing world champion Rebecca Romero looked ahead to the Beijing Olympics after completing her transformation to the cycling equivalent as she claimed the individual p

WHEN Andrew Lemoncello last scrambled up, and then down, Haggis Knowe five years ago it left him with deep scars which still make him wince with fear.

WITH a name like Bradley Wiggins you either become a down-to-earth but Corinthian sporting hero in one of the more arduous disciplines, or resign yourself to a couple of decad

Ireland's dominant distance runner of the past 20 years believes there's still gas in the tank and says she'll never retire.

REPRESENTING 70 countries from Australia to Zimbabwe, nearly 500 of the world's best middle-distance runners are in Edinburgh this weekend for tomorrow's staging of

LAURA KENNEY obviously can't recall the incident but her mum tells of the day her pushchair became bogged down in the mud as they attempted to navigate a cross country co