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Reece Prescod finished seventh in the 100m during the World Championships As the dust settled at the end of the IAAF World Championships 100m final the crowd realised just what had happened – the legendary Usain Bolt had lost out to Justin Gatlin. The chorus of boos came cascading down from the Olympic Stadium stands…
Paula Radcliffe believes there is nothing to be gained from stripping innocent athletes of their world records. European Athletics announced on Monday that records set pre-2005, before the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) routinely stored blood and urine samples, would be erased under the proposal recommended by one of the body’s project teams. Radcliffe…
IAAF headquarters Adidas is ending its sponsorship deal with athletics’ world governing body in the wake of the doping scandal, according to reports. The sportswear giant has told the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) it is terminating its contract four years early, the BBC said. The move comes after a damning report by the…
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Three senior IAAF officials have been banned for life for blackmailing athletes and covering up positive drugs tests. Papa Massata Diack, the son of the then-IAAF president Lamine Diack, former Russian athletic federation [ARAF] president and IAAF treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev, and senior ARAF coach Alexei Melnikov have all been handed lifetime bans. Gabriel Dolle, who was the…
Lord Coe IAAF president Lord Coe has quit his role as an ambassador for Nike. The head of world athletics’ governing body announced at a press conference in Monaco that he had cut his ties with the American sportswear giant. “It is clear that perception and reality have become horribly mangled. I have stepped down…
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Lord Coe was elected IAAF president in August IAAF president Lord Coe has admitted he should have seen the warning signs before athletics became engulfed in a doping crisis. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Coe said he and his colleagues should have been “more alert” during the events which led up to Friday’s decision to…
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IAAF vote to suspend Russia from all international athletics Russia has been provisionally suspended from all international athletics competitions by the IAAF. The move, which comes after last week’s revelations by the World Anti-Doping Agency, was passed almost unanimously in a vote of IAAF Council members on Friday night. Of 23 eligible council members, 22…
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Former Olympic champion and regular talkSPORT presenter Daley Thompson has delivered his verdict on the ongoing doping scandal in athletics. Reports emerged last week that Lamine Diack, the former head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), is under investigation for allegedly taking payments to defer sanctions against Russian drug cheats before the 2012 Olympics….
British 400m runner and current European champion Martyn Rooney has labelled IAAF president Lord Coe as “naïve” and questioned whether he is the right man to lead athletics. The claims come after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommended that Russia be banned from competing in world athletics after claiming London 2012 Olympics was sabotaged by…
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Lamine Diack with Seb Coe Former IAAF president Lamine Diack is facing provisional suspension as an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee after French police revealed he is under investigation for allegedly receiving more than 1 million euros to cover up doping. The IOC ethics commission has announced it has recommended that Diack, who…
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