OSLO, July 4 — Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva won the women's pole vault at the Bislett Games yesterday, claiming her second Golden League win in as many meetings this season. The Russian, below par at an event hit by bad weather, won by clearing 4.71 metres on her second attempt, beating Monica Pyrek into second place after the Pole cleared the height on her third attempt. Svetlana ...

3 July 2009 - Oslo, Norway – Like nearly everyone else in Oslo's famous Bislett stadium, Jamaica's Kerron Stewart hadn't ever seen such torrential rain at an athletics meeting. What made her almost unique was that she was ready to revel in the conditions.

3 July 2009 – Oslo, Norway – Sanya Richards put on the senior performance of tonight’s ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo, the second leg of the six meeting ÅF Golden League 2009, with a World Junior record for Kenya’s William Biwott in the men’s Mile 3:49.29 an appropriate statistical headline in what is usually Oslo’s traditional finale event.

Sanya Richards of the USA set a year best time Friday in winning the 400m Golden League meeting at Oslo in 49.23sec.

Christine Ohuruogu was never in contention and finished only sixth in her 400 metres race at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo.

The number of prostitutes on Oslo streets is nearly back to what it was before the ban on the sale of sex services was introduced last year, Aftenposten reports. The police is surpriced but promises quick reactions.

OSLO (02-Jul) -– During the previous two editions of the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba took turns smashing the world record in the 5000m.

2 July 2009 - Oslo, Norway - The name of Ethiopia's Meseret Defar has become synonymous with the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo, the second leg of the six-meeting ÅF Golden League 2009, ever since her 5000m World record in the Norwegian capital in 2007.

2 July 2009 – Oslo, Norway – The stars came out this afternoon to one of the more tasty traditions of the athletics world, the annual Strawberry Party held on the eve of the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, the second meet of this year’s ÅF Golden League.

Ethiopia's triple Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba will miss Friday's Golden League meeting in Oslo after suffering a minor injury, her manager Mark Wetmore has announced.