Doha’s World Championship in 2019 could mark a turning point in race walk competitions. IAAF, in fact, just signed a contract for the realisation of two prototypes of insoles with detectors. Any loss of contact with the ground will be [ Read More ]
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Six athletes are left to compete for the ”IAAF Athlete of the Year 2016” award after the first vote. The three males are Usain Bolt, Mo Farah and Wayde van Niekerk while the females are Almaz Ayana, Elaine Thompson and [ Read More ]
When you are a top athlete, you have to expect anti doping controls in every moment of the day and the night. Some nights ago, a lot of athletes were celebrating Halloween, and among them there was also the king of [ Read More ]
Two bronze medals, the triple jump World Championships in Osaka 2007 and the triple jump Olympics in Beijing 2008, might be reassigned. This could happen because the Greek triple jumper Pigi Devetzi failed a doping retest. The athlete, who has been [ Read More ]
In Rio, adding to the high number of competitions, yesterday has been held an IAAF Council meeting during which many decisions about future competitions have been taken. In primis, the biggest news concerns IAAF World Youth Championships: this event in [ Read More ]
One again the Court of Arbitration for Sports has been asked to rule on athletics matter in Rio 2016. Yesterday the news of IAAF revoking Darya Klishina‘s allowance to compete despite Russia’s ban emerged. IAAF decided to accept her entry because she is [ Read More ]
Alex Schwazer really believed on that, he wanted to compete in Rio: instead, nothing to do for the italian racewalker, forced to come back home empty-handed. Furthermore, to be more precise, the Olympic champion Beijing 2008, disqualified for EPO close to London 2012, [ Read More ]
Only four days left to the olympic adventure for athletics. Few hours ago IAAF published the final entries, which will become official only on the 10th of August. Usain Bolt will be protagonist again looking for the third triple gold medal after Beijing 2008 [ Read More ]
Racewalker Liu Hong banned for a month after a positive doping test in Rome World Team Championships
In IAAF’s list drawn up by the World Federation each month reporting the banned athletes, the name of the Chinese champion, world record holder, Liu Hong, stands out. The race walker, world record on 20km, won the title in the Italian capital [ Read More ]
Incredible news from London! Just some minutes before the start of Usain Bolt on 200m ad the Anniversary Games Diamond League, Kendra Harrison made the crowd exploding running the new 100hs world record! Initially the display was showing a finish time of [ Read More ]
