Sports / Athletics

Six new doping cases revealed by the IAAF 09 Mar 2013 - 12:13 am

PARIS: The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) yesterday announced that a re-testing of samples from the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki has revealed six...

Bubka predicts Isinbayeva swansong at home worlds 06 Mar 2013 - 08:54 pm

MOSCOW: Former Soviet pole vault great Sergei Bubka has predicted that Russian legend Yelena Isinbayeva will cap her glittering career with success at...

Wariner, Whiting win US titles 05 Mar 2013 - 08:17 am

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: Three-time Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner and reigning world indoor shot put champion Ryan Whiting won landmark titles yesterday at the...

CAS to hear Murofushi’s appeal in April 05 Mar 2013 - 08:16 am

LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear Japanese athlete Koji Murofushi’s appeal against his exclusion as a candidate for election...

Kipruto wins Lake Biwa marathon 03 Mar 2013 - 10:23 pm

OTSU, Japan: Kenya’s Vincent Kipruto emerged victorious in a shoulder-to-shoulder battle against Tariku Jufar of Ethiopia in the last 200 metres to win...

American Suhr sets indoor pole vault record 03 Mar 2013 - 10:22 pm

GOTHENBURG, Sweden: Olympic champion Jenn Suhr lit up the US indoor athletics championships yesterday by leaping 5.02 metres to set a new women’s...

Farah unfazed by flummoxed reporter 28 Feb 2013 - 09:25 am

LOS ANGELES: Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah appeared perplexed but kept his poise after being asked by a New Orleans television presenter...

Bolt to run the 200m in Paris 27 Feb 2013 - 06:52 am

PARIS: Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt (pictured) has been signed up to run the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris in...

Magnussen reveals sleeping tabs ‘tradition’ 26 Feb 2013 - 12:42 am

Sydney: World 100m freestyle champion James Magnussen -- who led the much-vaunted 4x100m Australian relay team which bombed spectacularly at the 2012 Olympics...

Games star Bolt stretches legs with 1-lap race at home 25 Feb 2013 - 12:33 am

KINGSTON: Jamaican sprint hero Usain Bolt continued his low-key early-season programme yesterday, running in the heats of the 4x400m relay at the Gibson...

Bolt set to race over 150m on Copacabana Beach 23 Feb 2013 - 03:53 am

Sao Paulo: Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will compete in a 150 metres race on Brazil’s Copacabana Beach next month against three other...

Pistorius dope-tested twice at Games: IPC 21 Feb 2013 - 10:40 am

PARIS: Oscar Pistorius was drug-tested before and during last year’s Paralympic Games in London, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said yesterday, adding that...

Victories for Lagat, Lomong in New York 18 Feb 2013 - 07:11 am

New York: Bernard Lagat ran the fastest indoor two-mile race by an American and Lopez Lomong became the second fastest US miler as...

Fraser-Pryce upstaged by Ahoure on indoor debut 17 Feb 2013 - 01:06 am

London: Olympic sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was upstaged on her indoor debut by Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure who took victory over 60 metres...

Pistorius’ sponsors in turmoil after murder charge 16 Feb 2013 - 05:53 am

Henke Pistorius (second left) father of South African paralympic and Olympic sprinter, Oscar Pistorius (right) reaches out to touch his son at the...

Bolt beaten in season opener 11 Feb 2013 - 09:02 am

KINGSTON: Jamaican Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt was beaten in his first race of the 2013 season on Saturday, finishing third in a...

Long jumper Kotova suspended for doping 09 Feb 2013 - 01:02 am

MOSCOW: Russian long jumper Tatyana Kotova has been provisionally suspended after failing a drugs test at the Helsinki 2005 world championships, the Russian...

Kenya sets up commission to probe dope claims 05 Feb 2013 - 02:27 am

NAIROBI: Kenya has set up an independent commission to look into claims about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, the country’s sports commissioner Gordon Oluoch...