Usain Bolt and other overseas athletes will be able to compete tax-free in this year's London Diamond League event. ...
04:32 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Suresh Kalmadi, who has been chargesheeted by the CBI in CWG scam, has been heading the Asian Athletics Association since 2000. ...
08:32 PM, Feb 04, 2013
As part of his preparations, the Jamaican 100 and 200 metres world record holder will run the longer sprint at the Bislett Games Diamond League meeting in Oslo on June 13. ...
08:56 AM, Jan 24, 2013
While speaking to CNN-IBN, the two time Olympic champion shares his experience and talks about the Mumbai Marathon. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The list includes the likes of double Asian Games gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji who are now serving a two-year ban for doping. ...
04:44 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Top Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are among the athletes in the running for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards 2013. Bolt and Fraser-Pryce have been shortlisted along with the world's greatest Olympic and Paralympic stars. The list includes British lawn tennis player Andy Murray, Australian swimmer Michael Phelps and Serena Williams, the American lawn tennis star. Bolt is aiming for his third Laureus World...
01:15 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Sudha Singh, one of India's finest long-distance athletes and current national record holder for the 3000m steeple chase, finished 13th in the event at the 2012 London Olympics. Her timing of 9:55:67 was set while winning gold at the 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou in 2010, and in June this year Sudha qualified for London after breaking going even better with a timing of 9:47.70. Performing at the...
04:21 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry has given an ultimatum to under-fire Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to either hold new elections within 60 days or be prepared to get sanctioned by the ministry. The elections held by the AFI in April were found to have violated three clauses of the National Sports Code. The Ministry had set aside the appointment of the president, secretary and treasurer of the AFI and...
05:35 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Monday derecognised the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) as per reports after it had derecognised the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) and the Archery Association of India (AAI) for manipulation in their election process on Friday. Earlier, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) provisionally suspended IABF for manipulation of its election, a move that came just two days after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had...
04:22 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Moscow: An anthropomorphic sparrow will serve as the mascot for the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow, organisers announced on Wednesday. The cartoon bird has brown, black and white plumage and wears a blue t-shirt bearing the Moscow 2013 insignia. "A sparrow was chosen as the mascot. The bird shares a lot of qualities with the athletes: It's quick, light and nimble. There were lots of possibilities, but we settled...
11:14 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: The 11 athletes who were handed two years ban by a NADA panel for flunking dope tests, including Asian Games bronze medallist wrestler Mausam Khatri, are expected to appeal against the decision. The athletes said that they will contest against the decision because the two year ban period was too long as they have also suffered for more than two years during the pendency of the case. Wrestlers...
05:54 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Monaco: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, Kenya's David Rudisha and US hurdler Aries Merritt are in the running for the World Athlete of the Year Award. Three-time winner Bolt is heavily favoured to claim the accolade for a second-straight year after sweeping the sprint titles at the London Olympics. The 23-year-old Rudisha, who won in 2010, was nominated after shattering the 800 metres world record in the London final. Merritt, meanwhile,...
11:36 AM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: India has nothing to boast of in terms of achievements at world stage in athletics, but the country has topped in the number offenders caught for doping under IAAF rules. In the latest IAAF list of dope offenders updated till October 31, a whopping 40 Indian athletes figured in the list out of 204 dope offenders all over the world. Among the top Indians in the list were...
08:45 PM, Nov 02, 2012
London: Britain's Olympic champions Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis were named athletes of year by the British Athletics Writers' Association on Friday. Farah did the distance double, winning the 10,000 and 5,000 metres men's titles at London 2012 while Ennis won the women's heptathlon gold for the host nation. Farah won the first of his gold medals on the same night Ennis clinched the heptathlon title and long-jumper Greg Rutherford,...
06:53 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian athletics official Karim Ibrahim has been hit with a six-year ban after he was found guilty of being involved in two doping cases, local media reported on Friday. Ibrahim, a former Malaysian Athletic Federation (MAF) deputy president, would be forced out of his roles as vice president of the Malacca Athletic Association and as council member of the Asian Athletic Association, the Malaysian Star reported. Ibrahim is...
10:56 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Auckland: Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion Usain Bolt says his goal of lowering the 100-metre mark below 9.4 seconds still stands and hints at a possibility of it happening next season. Bolt made his declaration Monday as he ended a whistle-stop promotional tour, which has seen the world's fastest man on New Zealand soil for less than 24 hours. The 100m and 200m world record holder has previously predicted...
03:06 PM, Oct 09, 2012
London: Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has set his sights on defending his three titles at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro rather than switching to another event, the six-times gold medallist said on Monday. The 26-year-old Jamaican said his coach would like him to take up the 400 metres and Bolt, wary of up-and-coming sprinters like teammate Yohan Blake, has spoken of trying the long jump. Bolt said...
08:25 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Berlin: Kenyan favourite Geoffrey Mutai survived a brave challenge by compatriot and marathon debutant Dennis Kimetto to win the Berlin marathon on Sunday but narrowly failed in his quest to break the world record. Mutai's time of two hours four minutes 15 seconds on the fastest of the big city courses was more than half a minute slower than the world record set by compatriot Patrick Makau in the German...
06:02 PM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: Olympic champion and world record holder, David Rudisha says the success-starved Indian athletics fraternity lacks an inspirational figure, like cricket has in the form of someone like Sachin Tendulkar. "India have the potential to produce athletes like Kenya and Jamaica but the problem is lack of inspiration and motivation. Like in cricket you have Sachin Tendulkar, young generation looks up to him," Rudisha told PTI in an interview....
08:53 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Brussels: Olympic 100m and 200m champion Usain Bolt does not mind sharing the limelight with his Jamaican rival Yohan Blake but thinks competing against him all the time would be boring. Speaking ahead of Friday's Diamond League meeting in Brussels, Bolt said the rivalry with Blake was important but should not be exaggerated. "You play the rivalry down if you always compete against each other," the six-times Olympic gold medallist...
10:49 PM, Sep 06, 2012
