Category: Olympic Athletics

Australian sprinter Morgan Mitchell “one happy girl” ahead of Canberra Athletics Grand Prix

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. She starred at the Rio Olympic Games and in Nitro Athletics and is one of the most exciting young stars in a sport on the rise in Australia.

Spanovic soars to gold at European indoor championships

Britain’s Laura Muir celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women’s 3000-meter final during the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, March 5, 2017. Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic celebrates after an attempt in the women’s long jump final during the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, March 5, 2017.

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DETERMINED: SA’s 5 000m record-holder Elroy Gelant feels refreshed and more confident after training at high altitude in Kenya. Having had the best year of his career last year he set the new SA 5 000m record and made the Olympic final Elroy Gelant took his training camp to Kenya last month.

York’s British champion forfeits European Indoors – now targets World Championships

YORK’s British champion Scott Lincoln will not be competing at the European Indoor Athletics Championships next month after running out of competitions in which to achieve the qualification mark. The City of York Athletic Club ace successfully defended his shot put title at last weekend’s British Athletics Indoor Championships in Sheffield with a throw of 18.76 metres, beating Woodford’s Youcef Zatat into second place.

Russian’s ban may make Caster Semenya a double Olympic champion

Russia’s Mariya Savinova-Farnosova has been stripped of her London 2012 Olympic gold medal and banned for four years after “clear evidence” was found that the 800-meter champion used performance-enhancing drugs. The 31-year-old’s results from July 2010 and August 2013 have been annulled, meaning she also loses her 2011 world title, 2013 world silver medal and 2010 European gold.

Russian runner banned and stripped of gold

Russian runner Mariya Savinova has been stripped of her London Olympics gold medal and banned her for four years for doping. Photo: Phil Noble/Reuters LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The international sports tribunal on Friday stripped Russian runner Mariya Savinova of the London Olympics 800 metres gold medal and banned her for four years for doping.

Anderson urges athletes to embrace challenges

… Church hall in Westgate, told youngsters. The Milo Western Relays will be held on February 11th at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, and $360,000 in prize money will be up for grabs to the teams taking part in several events. This year the organisers …

Queen made me a knight while Donald Trump made me an alien: Mo Farah

London: British athletics legend Mo Farah on Sunday said he was “relieved” to be exempt from an immigration clampdown by US President Donald Trump, while asserting he “fundamentally disagrees” with the policy. Double-double Olympic champion Farah was born in Somalia but has lived in Britain since the age of eight, and was knighted by the Queen this year for his services to British sport.

David Weir believes the decision to retire from representing Great Britain was the

Earlier this month, the 37-year-old expressed his discontent with the national governing body on Twitter, declaring he would never wear a British vest again and claiming he had been “let down again”. Weir announced the London Marathon on April 23 would be his last race during his final ”terrible” Paralympics in Rio and that he would not compete at the IPC Athletics World Championships in the capital during July.

Usain Bolt stripped of 2008 gold medal, due to teammatea s doping

Here in New England, we know the weather fluctuates day by day, and are waiting for summer to roll around to start attending Summer events, With over 70% of all startup companies and businesses running from home, how do you make your business stand out? You use video! FILE – In this Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, Jamaica’s men’s 4×100 meters relay team, from left, Michael Fraser, Usain Bolt, Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell show their gold medals during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Usain Bolt has been stripped of one of his nine Olympic gold medals, Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017, in a doping case involving teammate Nesta Carter.

James Ellington ‘blessed to be alive’ after road accident

British sprinter James Ellington said he and training partner Nigel Levine were fortunate to be alive following a road accident in Tenerife on Tuesday. Their injuries are not life-threatening but there are fears about their ability to compete again at the highest level, with Ellington already needing surgery on a broken leg.

Swansong for world’s greatest decathlete

At just 28 years of age there will be no more athletics for the world record holder in the most testing of all athletics events, the decathlon – Ashton Eaton. Unlike Bolt, Eaton has excelled in eleven events over a very similar career period, but gets credit only for one of them.