Haile Gebrselassie has revealed that one of his first initiatives as the newly appointed President of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) will be to change a system which has operated for a generation, requiring athletes who wish to further their careers to live and train in Addis Ababa.
Double Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie has succeeded in his aim of becoming President of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) following an election in Addis Ababa.
Former Olympic 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu is one of several leading athletes to have had their National Lottery funding cut for the 2017 season, British Athletics revealed today as it released its new world-class performance programme (WCPP) selections.
Kenya’s world javelin champion Julius Yego says he is lucky to be alive following a car accident yesterday which wrote off his vehicle and left him in a "stable condition" in hospital.
Bruno Grandi, who steps down this week after 20 years as President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), has spoken of the "great chance" his sport has to embrace a 3D judging replay system currently being developed in Tokyo.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) Women’s WorldTour - established this year as a replacement for the Women’s World Cup competition set up in 1998 - will expand from 17 to 21 events next season.
Usain Bolt will run his last race on home soil in Jamaica at the Racers Grand Prix in Kingston on June 10 next year, before retiring from competition two months later, he has confirmed.
Rome's bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been suspended, the President of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) Giovanni Malagò announced here today, although faint hopes of a renewed effort still exist given recent political changes.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) Women’s WorldTour, established this year as a replacement for the World Cup competition set up in 1998, will be significantly expanded next year.
World pole vault champion Shawn Barber was cleared to compete just two days before his competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada ruled a positive test for cocaine was caused inadvertently through an encounter with a woman he met on personals site Craigslist.
Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova, the London 2012 Olympic champion, has been stripped of her bronze medal from the Beijing 2008 after her doping samples were retested and came back positive for anabolic steroids.
With temperatures expected to reach near 40 degrees centigrade at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Road World Championships in the Qatari capital of Doha next week, a series of potential safety measures have been put in place, including shortening the men’s elite road race and "reducing the number of laps of the circuit" for all other events.
Rower Peter Reed, Britain’s three-time Olympic gold medallist, has voiced his anger at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following their failure to do more in support of himself and other athletes whose medical records were accessed by Russian hackers Fancy Bears'.
Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive David Grevemberg has insisted that the 2022 edition in Durban will be a successful and historic event despite current concerns over its financial prospects.
Greek triple jumper Hrysopiyi Devetsi has had her bronze medal result at the 2008 Olympics annulled today by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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