European Athletics is hosting a live twitter chat with Sonia O’Sullivan, the double world cross country champion over 4 and 8km in 1998, whose twitter handle is @soniaagrith tonight at 20:00 CET.

Six weeks after not only running the first marathon of her career, but finishing third no less in New York, Sara Moreira will take her place on the start line in Samokov on Sunday ready to chase her fourth team gold medal this time over 7.9km ...

The international athletics year comes to an end on Sunday as the town of Samokov, in the south west of Bulgaria, hosts the 21st SPAR European Cross Country Championships.

Triple jump European gold medallist from Zurich, Benjamin Compaoré and Nadine Broersen of the Netherlands silver medallist in the heptathlon are already working hard towards 2015.

It is a week to go until the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Samokov and the host nation have a runner in their team who made national history.

The prospect is growing of a classic men's pole vault competition at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague in March.