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Diamond League gets new calendar as London nixed

The Diamond League announced a revamped athletics calendar after the London event on July 4-5 was cancelled yesterday due to the coronavirus outbreak, with the first event now provisionally set for Monaco...

May 13, 2020, Wednesday

Wanjiru denies doping

Kenyan Daniel Wanjiru, the 2017 London Marathon winner, has denied any wrongdoing after he was provisionally suspended by the sport’s independent Athletics Integrity Unit on Tuesday....

April 16, 2020, Thursday

Track worlds moved to July 2022

The world athletics championships were rescheduled for July 15-24, 2022, yesterday, the first major sports event to be repositioned in the wake of the 12-month postponement of the Olympics because of the...

April 9, 2020, Thursday

Italy’s former Olympian Sabia dies from COVID-19

Twice Olympic 800-meter finalist Donato Sabia has died from COVID-19 at the age of 56, the Italian Olympic Committee said yesterday....

April 9, 2020, Thursday

China’s twerking high jumper Zhang retires at 28

China’s world silver-medalist high jumper Zhang Guowei, renowned for his flamboyant twerking celebrations, has stunned fans by announcing his retirement aged 28....

April 7, 2020, Tuesday

World championships moving to 2022

The 2021 world athletics championships will be shifted to 2022 to accommodate the re-arranged Tokyo Olympics, World Athletics said yesterday....

March 31, 2020, Tuesday

Diamond League hit

The opening three track and field meetings on the elite Diamond League circuit have been postponed in response to the growing global crisis around the novel coronavirus....

March 18, 2020, Wednesday

Russia fined US$10m for breaching anti-doping rules

World Athletics yesterday fined Russia’s track and field federation US$10 million for breaching anti-doping rules and capped at 10 the number of Russians allowed to compete as neutrals at the Tokyo Ol...

March 13, 2020, Friday

Kipketer suspended

Kenyan runner Alfred Kipketer, who raced in the 800-meter final at the 2016 Olympics, has been suspended for failing to make himself available for doping tests....

January 16, 2020, Thursday

Diack trial adjourned

The Paris trial of Lamine Diack, the former head of athletics’ world governing body who is accused of accepting millions of dollars to cover up positive Russian doping tests, was adjourned until at least...

January 14, 2020, Tuesday



 

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