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“Together have seen solar eclipse, two planets, now lunar”.

Sunday’s Blood Moon was the fifth of six supermoons this year alone.

The rare coupling was seen in Canada, the United States, Europe, Africa and western Asia.

Supermoons happen a few times a year, but they rarely coincide with a lunar eclipse, where the moon moves into the earth’s shadow, making it appear eerily blood red.

Doom-mongering had been particularly ramped up as this lunar eclipse combined with a supermoon.

The nights are longer, the temperatures cooler and the bugs will soon be gone. “We’re going to get to watch as the full moon plunges into the ruddy shadow of the earth”. Weather permitting, you can see the supermoon after nightfall, and the eclipse will cast it...

Former Olympic 1500m champion Coe was voted in over Ukraine’s ex-Olympic pole vaulter Sergey Bubka by 115 votes to 92 at a meeting of the 214 athletics federations in Beijing.

The Ukrainian former pole vault world record holder, who was beaten 115 votes to 92 by Coe on Wednesday (August 19) before being successfully elected to one of the four vice-presidential positions, returned home the day after the vote.

Defending champion Bolt, however, was greeted with whoops and the Jamaican was seen nodding his head along to some piped Bob Marley music at the start before steaming home in a very comfortable 9.96sec.

Andreas Selliaas analyses Coe’s background and comments on his mounting challenges. In his victory speech he valued being elected president of the IAAF as the “second biggest and momentous decision” in his life.

Coe received 115 votes in the poll, 23 more than rival candidate and Ukrainian pole vault great Sergei Bubka, who later retained his position as an IAAF vice-president.

Britain’s Sebastian Coe or Ukraine’s Sergey Bubka will be elected president of the sport’s governing body at Congress today along with a fresh council.

Asked what needs to change in the world of athletics, Farah said: “In my opinion, if we all did what we do in the UK in terms of how we do testing, if every country applied to that rule, it would change dramatically”.

But IAAF’s long-term storage and retesting strategy concerning IAAF Championships, which began in 2005 with anti-doping samples from that year’s IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, has led to disciplinary action being commenced against a further 28 athletes...

Allegations emerged yesterday that the winners of 34 major marathons around the world – one in four – during the period should have faced censure or investigation because of their test results, with those athletes collecting more than £3 million in prize money.