It was the hug with her mother Liz that will probably become the enduring image of Eilish McColgan’s stunning 10,000 metres Commonwealth Games victory in Birmingham. 

Thirty-six years after her mother, Liz, won the Commonwealth Games women's 10,000m title in Edinburgh, Eilish McColgan has done likewise in Birmingham - and in a Games record of 30min 48.60sec.

Fifty years ago today (September 19) the inaugural women’s race took place at the New York City Marathon, with Beth Bonner winning in 2hr 55min 22sec - a world record.

Scotland’s Liz McColgan and Ireland’s Sonia O'Sullivan are among those to have expressed support for the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) controversial decision on the landmark case involving Caster Semenya and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). 

Down the years, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Half Marathon Championships - the latest edition of which is due to take place in Valencia on Saturday (March 24) - has proved a highly significant testing ground for a series of highly significant runners.

I felt a mixture of satisfaction and despair earlier this week when it was revealed that Russia's Tatyana Chernova had tested positive for banned drugs following a re-analysis of her sample from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the bronze medal she had won in the heptathlon would be stripped away from her and awarded instead to Britain's Kelly Sotherton.