Mo Farah became the first man to win back-to-back world distance doubles when he stormed to 5,000 meters victory at Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium on Saturday.
New International Association of Athletics Federation president Sebastian Coe gave a big thumbs up to the world championships which concluded on Sunday.
Top finishers on Sunday, final day of the world championships in Beijing:
Ethiopian Mare Dibaba lived up to her billing as the world's fastest marathon runner by winning the grueling event at the world championships in a sprint finish on Sunday.
Edward O. Wilson, the world's greatest authority on ants, said, "Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies ... I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."
Periods of intense training for two African athletes at a Finnish javelin school have overturned the natural world order in the physically demanding and technically challenging event.
With a strange choice for background music blaring around the Bird's Nest, Yarisley Silva attempted to clear 5.01 meters in the pole vault shortly after winning her first gold medal at the world championships.
Sharapova hopes to rebound from leg injury and a broken romance
Favorites for the title at the US Open, which begins on Monday:
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