Moscow, Feb 3 (IANS) The decision on Russia’s participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games will be made on February 1 next year, Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) Secretary General Andrei Strokin said on Friday. “It…
Moscow, Feb 3 (IANS) Russian authorities want all athletes caught doping to return their medals. The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) is in on the job, its President Alexander Zhukov has said. This follows a request…
Nairobi, Feb 3 (IANS) Kenya will send a strong team to the field events during the 2017 World U-18 Athletics Championship to boost the country’s medal haul, the team manager has said. Barnabas Korir, who…
Nairobi, Feb 2 (IANS) Olympic 5,000 metres champion Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya is not under pressure to deliver when she debuts at the London Marathon on April 23. The 33-year-old expects a good performance as…
Nairobi, Feb 2 (IANS) A Kenyan lawyer is seeking to have officials from the country’s sports ministry charged over the Rio 2016 Olympics scandal that saw money and kit belonging to their team stolen or…
Moscow, Feb 1 (IANS) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has the right to ban athletes who refuse to return their medals after their results were annulled for doping, from participation in the next Olympics, lawyer…
Moscow, Feb 1 (IANS) Russia was on Wednesday stripped of the 4×400 metre relay silver medal from the London 2012 Olympics, after sprinter Antonina Krivoshapka tested positive for banned steroid turinabol. The ruling is likely…
Nairobi, Feb 1 (IANS) Investigations against three suspended top Athletics Kenya (AK) officials accused of undermining the anti-doping process are almost complete, according to media reports. The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK), however, on Tuesday…
London, Feb 1 (IANS) European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen has demanded urine samples of athletes to be stored for at least 10 years to fight doping. Hansen told the inaugural Sport Integrity Global Alliance…
Moscow, Feb 1 (IANS) Russian athletes will be able to take part in the 2018 Winter Games in South Koreas PyeongChang if the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) restores the country’s membership in May, a member…
Moscow, Jan 31 (IANS) The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission have so far failed to give names of the athletes suspected of violating anti-doping rules to the Russian Paralympic…
Moscow, Jan 31 (IANS) The Russian Paralympic Committee’s (RPC) membership of the International Paralympic Committee could be restored before the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in South Korea if Russia meets the reinstatement criteria in full,…
Nairobi, Jan 31 (IANS) Rio Olympics 5,000 metres silver medallist Hellen Obiri will skip the World Cross Country Championships in Kampala in March to focus on the upcoming London World Championships in August. Obiri, 27,…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) Siliguri lad Abul Hossain won the Kolkata Full Marathon as amateur runners from north Bengal and northeast India ruled the first edition of the meet here on Sunday. Hossain clinched the…
Nairobi, Jan 28 (IANS) Former world 800 metres champion Eunice Sum of Kenya has ruled out competing in indoor championships as she seeks to return to fitness ahead of the outdoor competition that will culminate…
Moscow, Jan 28 (IANS) The World Olympians Association (WOA) has prohibited Russian triple jump and long jump champion Tatiana Lebedeva from working in the associations Executive Committee for a life-time period amid doping allegations against…
Nairobi, Jan 28 (IANS) There will be no love lost when Olympic 800 metres bronze medallist Margaret Wambui of Kenya meets South African Caster Semenya in the Diamond League or Athletics World Championships in 2017….
Nairobi, Jan 27 (IANS) New York marathon champion Mary Keitany of Kenya is not worried about the level of competition she will face in her quest to clinch third London marathon women’s title in April….
Moscow, Jan 23 (IANS) The All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) will check allegations of doping in Russian sport made public in a new documentary aired by Germanys ARD television channel, ARAF President Dmitry Shlyakhtin has said….
Nairobi, Jan 22 (IANS) Rio Olympic women’s 800 metres bronze medallist Margaret Nyairera of Kenya has said her dream this year is to beat South Africa’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya. Nyairera, 21, who won the…