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Lamine Diack, the former head of the governing body for world athletics, was at the heart of a corruption scam, prosecutors told a French court on Monday. The prosecutors said the scam saw Russian athletes paying six-figure sums to have their names erased from doping lists. The 87-year-old Diack, who led the then International Association
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The restart of the Bundesliga last weekend has drawn criticism from the sports community in football-mad Germany with world champion rower Oliver Zeidler branding it “a joke” and criticised an “insane system”. “It’s a joke,” Zeidler told AFP subsidiary SID. “If children cannot go to daycare and caterers are not allowed to use their full
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Hailing from one of the world’s poorest country, Nigerien sprinter Aminatou Seyni is no stranger to life’s hurdles, but as she prepares for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the 23-year-old faces fresh obstacles. Despite clocking the fifth-fastest time in the 400 metres last year, Seyni may not be able to compete in her favoured event because
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Some variants of Nike’s Vaporfly running shoes have been outlawed for elite competition and strict limits on the technology developed for any future shoes introduced after World Athletics announced significant changes to its rules on Friday. The sport’s governing body (WA) said that with immediate effect and for elite competition only, road shoes must have
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Athletics Federation of Nigeria officials are hopeful that the new season will produce good results and crisis free administration as they target a good outing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Acting AFN president, Olamide George in looking ahead at the new season, submitted that the AFN board will strive to avoid the mistakes of
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The World Anti-Doping Agency, whose executive committee meets in Lausanne on Monday, is set to punish Russia’s complicity in a state-sponsored doping programme with a new four-year ban on Russian sportsmen and women. It is likely to present more difficulties for Russian athletes wanting to compete on the world stage and for federations who are
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Russia will discover Monday whether they will be banished from sporting competitions, including the Olympic Games, for four years when the World Anti-Doping Agency hold a crunch meeting in Lausanne. WADA’s executive committee is expected to approve a recommendation by its Compliance Review Committee that Russia be handed a four-year suspension after accusing Moscow of
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ENUGU State governor, Rt. Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has approved the 2nd edition of Coal City Marathon to hold November 23, 2019 in Enugu state.
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Some sports analysts had questioned the rationale of throwing open the 2018 National Sports Festival in Abuja. However, Imabong Nse Uko gave these experts, and indeed the Nigerian athletics family quite an amount of thrill to ruminate over.
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It’s the dawn of a new Athletics season, and it is my hope that the administrators of our sport have already mapped out strategies to take Track and Field to the next level in 2019.
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