Showing posts with label ATHLETICS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATHLETICS. Show all posts
Saturday, March 3, 2018

World Indoor Athletics Championships: Christian Coleman Set Championship Record

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Birmingham on Saturday night witnessed twenty One-year-old American, Christian Coleman set a championship record as he claimed gol...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Team Nigeria lists 90 Athletes For Commonwealth Games

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According to the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ninety athletes will represent Nigeria at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games schedule...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

IAAF World Championships Confirms Nine Nigerian Athletes For The Games

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According to the provisional entry list released by the IAAF on Sunday , nine athletes are expected to represent Nigeria at the IAAF Wor...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

British sprinter provisionally suspended for failing drugs test

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It was reported in December that 28-year-old British Olympic sprinter Nigel Levine had allegedly tested positive for the  banned asthma...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Russian Pair Disqualified From London 2012 Olympics

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Two more Russian athletes have failed drugs tests from the  London  2012 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ann...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Mo Farah Part ways With Controversial Coach Alberto Salazar

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Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has parted ways with his controversial coach  Alberto Salazar  but denied the split was because of...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

IAAF Open Public Tenders for World Athletics Series Media Rights

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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has opened public tenders for Europe and Africa media rights concerning the...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

IOC Says Jamaican Sprinters' 2008 Samples Not Suspicious Enough to Investigate

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The International Olympic Committee has denied that any cover up took place of possible doping violations after claims that positive test...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

WADA Chief Spokesperson to Leave Role

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s Chief Spokesperson Ben Nichols is to leave his role in May, after four years at the organisation’...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

WADA Criticises Isinbayeva Appointment

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The decision to appoint Yelena Isinbayeva to a key role in Russia's anti-doping organisation has been strongly criticised by the Worl...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

IAAF Official Quits Over Corruption Claims

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Four-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks has stepped down from his prominent role with the International Association of Athl...
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Lord Coe Recognises Russia Progression

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Lord Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has acknowledged that Russian authorities have made...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Durban Bid Chief Remains Confident of Commonwealth Games

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Tubby Reddy, the chairman of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), has insisted that the city of Durba...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Three Russian Athletes Can Compete as Neutrals

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The doping review board of The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has cleared three Russian athletes to compete to...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

London 2012 Gold Medallist Stripped of Medal and Banned

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Russian middle-distance runner Mariya Savinova has been stripped of her Olympic gold medal and banned from athletics until 2019. Savino...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Former Olympic Champion Banned for Three Months

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  American hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson has been banned for three months after testing positive for a banned diuretic. Harper-Nelson won ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

IAAF Freezes Nationality Switches

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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has frozen all nationality switches with immediate effect. With numbers o...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Bolt Loses 2008 Relay Gold Medal After Carter Disqualification

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Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt has seen his unprecedented 'triple triple' of Olympic Gold Medals ended, after 2008 relay teammate Ne...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Usain Bolt named XM brand ambassador

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Forex and CFD brokers, XM, have announced that they are partnering with Olympic Champion runner Usain Bolt to be their official brand a...
Monday, October 17, 2016

Tyson Gay Daughter Shot Dead

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Tyson Gay's 15-year-old daughter has been killed in a shooting in the US state of Kentucky, police say. The Former world champion s...