Sports / Athletics

Semenya makes final bid for worlds berth 25 Jul 2013 - 02:50 am

CAPE TOWN: Former world 800 metre champion Caster Semenya will make one final bid to qualify for next month’s world championships when she...

London Games stadium to be new base for UK athletes 24 Jul 2013 - 05:28 am

LONDON: The London Olympic Stadium, centrepiece of last year’s Games, will serve as a new national base for British athletics as well as...

Rudisha ruled out of action until March 23 Jul 2013 - 12:59 am

ITEN, Kenya: Olympic 800 metres champion and world record-holder David Rudisha will miss the remainder of the season and is unlikely to race...

Coe calls for four-year ban for drug cheats 22 Jul 2013 - 12:16 am

LONDON: Former double Olympic champion Sebastian Coe wants the ban for athletes failing drugs tests to be increased from two to four years,...

Kiprop, Gatlin dispel week of doping news 20 Jul 2013 - 12:05 pm

MONTE CARLO, Monaco: Athletics received just the tonic it needed at a thrilling Diamond League meet in Monaco yesterday after a week tainted...

Semenya set to miss world championships 20 Jul 2013 - 11:51 am

CAPE TOWN: Former world 800 metre champion Caster Semenya is likely to miss next month’s world championships in Moscow after being left off...

Athletes lament doping scandal 20 Jul 2013 - 11:51 am

MONTE CARLO, Monaco: A raft of Olympic and world champions have lamented the “disappointing” doping scandal that has gripped track and field after...

Smikle fourth Jamaican to test positive 20 Jul 2013 - 11:50 am

KINGSTON: Olympic discus thrower Traves Smikle yesterday became the fourth Jamaican athlete in four days to reveal a positive doping test but said...

Athletics: Britain’s Farah ready to fire in Moscow 19 Jul 2013 - 03:45 am

MONTE CARLO, Monaco: Mo Farah will head to next month’s World Athletics Championships in Moscow full of confidence in his bid to replicate...

Too much emphasis on 100m: Monaco chief 19 Jul 2013 - 03:45 am

MONTE CARLO: There is too much emphasis granted to the 100m, according to the director of the Monaco Diamond League, which will not...

Light Monaco relief after gloomy week 19 Jul 2013 - 03:44 am

MONTE CARLO: The world of athletics will hope the spotlight turns back to action on the track and field at the Diamond League...

Long-distance great Gebrselassie eyes new role 19 Jul 2013 - 03:44 am

ADDIS ABABA: As his feet hit the pedals at lightning speed, Haile Gebrselassie barely breaks a sweat on an exercise bike at his...

Too much emphasis on 100m: Monaco chief 19 Jul 2013 - 03:44 am

MONTE CARLO: There is too much emphasis granted to the 100m, according to the director of the Monaco Diamond League, which will not...

Injured Blake out of worlds 18 Jul 2013 - 04:43 am

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Reigning 100 metre world champ Yohan Blake has withdrawn from next month’s World Athletics Championships in Moscow with a hamstring injury....

Xuereb says athletes to blame for positive tests 18 Jul 2013 - 04:36 am

LONDON: Chris Xuereb, the masseur and fitness advisor of Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, has denied providing the two Jamaican sprinters with performance-enhancing...

Calls mount for action against athletics cheats 16 Jul 2013 - 09:58 am

A picture taken on July 10, 2010 shows US Tyson Gay (left) running against Jamaica’s Asafa Powell in the mens 100m final at...

Adidas suspends contract with Gay 16 Jul 2013 - 09:58 am

FRANKFURT: Adidas AG has suspended its contract with Tyson Gay after the former double world sprint champion failed an out-of-competition dope test, the...

Sprint stars Powell, Gay fail drug tests 15 Jul 2013 - 02:24 am

RALEIGH, North Carolina: Tearful former double sprint world champion Tyson Gay (pictured) said yesterday he had tested positive for a substance he could...