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Olympic Marathon Silver Medallist Kirwa Suspended For Doping

Bahrain’s Olympic women’s marathon silver medallist Eunice Kirwa has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said in a statement. Kenyan-born Kirwa, who switched allegiance...... Read more Why IAAF May Ban Nigeria

Nigerian athletics is facing an imminent ban by the world athletics ruling body IAAF, following the misappropriation of a US$150,000 grant paid to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. The IAAF had...... Read more Semenya Loses Appeal over Testosterone Rules

Olympic 800-metres champion Caster Semenya on Wednesday lost her appeal against rules that mean female athletes with high natural levels of testosterone must take medication to reduce it. The Court of...... Read more Semenya Decision To Be Announced By CAS on Wednesday

The decision on Caster Semenya’s challenge to continue competing without any restrictions will be announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) at 1100 GMT on Wednesday. The double Olympic...... Read more Semenya Says 'No Threat' To Women's Sport

Double Olympic 800-metres champion Caster Semenya says she is “no threat” to women’s sport and that recent comments from International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe have reopened old...... Read more Nigerian Athletes Get IOC Scholarship Ahead of Japan 2020 Olympics

The journey to the Japan 2020 Olympics has begun for 11 Nigerian athletes as they have been captured in the latest International Olympic Committee (IOC) scholarship scheme. The list is headlined...... Read more Arrest Warrants Issued for Former Russian Athletics Officials

France has issued arrest warrants for two former Russian athletics officials as part of an investigation into a doping cover-up. Valentin Balakhnichev is a former head of Russian athletics and Alexei...... Read more IAAF Announce Major Changes to Diamond League 2020

The number of events at Diamond League meetings will reduce from 32 to 24 next year, officials from the IAAF announced on Monday. In a year-long review, the international athletics governing...... Read more South African Govt. Rallies Behind Semenya on IAAF’s New Gender Rules

The South African government on Friday threw its weight behind Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya ahead of next week’s landmark hearing against proposed rules that aim to restrict testosterone levels...... Read more Runners Rate Access Bank Lagos Marathon Organisation Poor

Some participants who featured at the 4th Access Bank Lagos City Marathon rated the organisation of the 42km poor. Some of them told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they...... Read more IAAF slams 8-year doping ban on Kenya’s Olympic champion Jemima Sumgong

Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong has had her doping ban doubled to eight years after being found guilty by the IAAF of providing false information while defending herself against her...... Read more Defending champion Kipchoge to run 2019 London Marathon, faces Farah test

Kenya’s world record holder and defending champion Eliud Kipchoge will return to the London Marathon this year, setting up a mouth-watering clash with Britain’s Mo Farah. Kipchoge made it three wins...... Read more IAAF upholds Russia’s ban from athletics into 2019

Russian athletes will remain banned from international competitions after the IAAF upheld the country’s suspension into 2019. Athletics’ governing body banned Russia in November 2015 because of evidence of state-sponsored doping....... Read more Ineta Radevica fails Olympic doping retest

Former European long jump champion Ineta Radevica has tested positive for the steroid oxandrolone in a retest of her sample from the 2012 Olympics. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which processes doping...... Read more Kenyan medalist Bett gets four-year doping ban

Kenyan world 800 metres bronze medalist Kipyegon Bett has been handed a four-year ban for doping, the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit said in a statement on Friday. Bett, 20, refused to...... Read more Nigel Levine banned for failing drugs test

British Olympic sprinter Nigel Levine has been banned from all sport for four years after failing a drugs test. The European 4x400m relay gold medallist was provisionally suspended in December. And UK...... Read more WADA to conduct further investigations into bullying allegations

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will conduct further enquiries into accusations of bullying by executive committee members after an initial probe was unable to prove any improper behaviour, it said on...... Read more Two Ugandan athletes to be deported

The government of Australia is preparing to deport two Ugandan athletes who vanished during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Uganda fielded a team of 69 athletes and six of the...... Read more IAAF delays implementation of its new eligibility rules for female classification

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Tuesday it will delay the implementation of its new eligibility rules for female classification due to the legal challenge by South Africa’s...... Read more Davids clinches 100m gold at Youth Olympics

South Africa Sprint sensation Luke Davids led the charge on Tuesday morning by storming to gold, as the SA Track and Field team picked up two medals on Day 9 of...... Read more Kenya officials charged in Olympic corruption inquiry

Seven senior Kenyan officials will be charged over alleged corruption surrounding the 2016 Olympic Games, the country’s chief prosecutor said. Those accused include ex-Sports Minister Hassan Wario and former Olympic Committee...... Read more Madsen wins time-trial battle of the big Danes

Dane Martin Toft Madsen won the prestigious French time-trialling event the Chrono des Nations on Sunday, edging his compatriot Mikkel Bjerg by seven seconds. It was a second straight victory for...... Read more Doping chief complains of bullying

The chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (Wada) Athlete Committee says some of the organisation’s most senior officials tried to “bully” her over her opposition to Russian reinstatement. Beckie Scott told...... Read more Yokohama to host 2019 IAAF World Relays

Japan will now host two of the biggest events on the athletics calendar in successive years after the choice of Yokohama for the 2019 IAAF World Relays. The International Association of...... Read more Kenya’s Kalalei handed four-year ban after testing positive for banned blood-boosting hormone

Kenyan marathon runner Samuel Kalalei has been banned from athletics for four years after testing positive for banned blood-boosting hormone EPO. The 23-year-old tested positive at the Rotterdam Marathon in April...... Read more