An anthropomorphic sparrow will serve as the mascot for the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. ...
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
London: Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda gave India its first medal at the Paralympic Games after bagging a silver in the Men's High Jump F42 event here. The 24-year-old from Karnataka, who has an impairment in his left leg, sailed over a height of 1.74m using scissors technique in the final of the event to finish second in the presence of an 80,000 capacity crowd last night. Iliesa Delana of Fiji won...
10:48 AM, Sep 04, 2012
London: South Africa's Oscar Pistorius began his London Paralympic campaign in scintillating fashion as he smashed the 200 metres T44 world record in his heat on Saturday. Pistorius ran 21.30, shaving more than half a second off the previous record set by Brazilian Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira in an earlier heat. The 25-year-old, who is dubbed the 'Blade Runner', is defending the 100m, 200m and 400m Olympic titles he won...
08:59 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Berlin: A sports official in Germany has died after being struck in the throat by a javelin, police said on Monday. The 74-year-old man was adjudicating at a youth athletics event in the western city of Duesseldorf when the incident happened late Sunday, said police spokesman Andre Hartwig. He was immediately taken to hospital but died of injuries early Monday, Hartwig said. The local athletics association for Duesseldorf and Neuss...
08:01 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Lausanne, Switzerland: Usain Bolt was fast and impressive at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting on Thursday. Yohan Blake was fast and maybe even more impressive. Bolt, the Olympic champion and world record-holder over 100 and 200 metres, timed 19.58 seconds in the fastest 200-metre ever run at the speedy Lausanne track. Yet he was almost overshadowed by Blake, his Jamaican friend and rival, who 20 minutes earlier closed the gap...
05:18 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Usain Bolt is a definite starter for another Olympic Games in four years' time, opening up the possibility of more sprint records or an attempt at other events, the six-time gold medallist said on Wednesday. Speculation has been rife since the London Games that the Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion could quit athletics and not compete at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. His hunger for success, however, appears to...
10:08 AM, Aug 23, 2012
London: India's Basanta Bahadur Rana created a national record but that could only ensure him a 36th place in the men's 50km walk at the London Olympics here on Saturday. Rana took three hours, 56 minutes and 48 seconds to complete the race. Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia strolled to the gold medal. Kirdyapkin, a two-time world champion, posted an Olympic record time of three hours, 35 minutes and 59 seconds....
06:12 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: For all the excitement that Usain Bolt has generated at the Olympics, one thing is still missing. It flashes up in yellow on the stadium time clock: "WR." In Beijing he had three world records to go with his three gold medals. After just missing out during his golden 100 and 200 meters in London, he will have to count on his teammates to help him in the 4x100...
02:55 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Unlike other disciplines, there were no expectations of medals from the Indian athletes at the London Olympics in track and field events. And barring a few creditable display " Krishna Poonia and Vikas Gowda in women's and men's discus throw events respectively " there was no performance of note by any other athlete. Here's a look at how the Indian athletes fared in the different disciplines they participated in. Men's...
11:53 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Usain Bolt on Thursday became the first athlete to successfully defend his 100m and 200m Olympic titles. ...
05:04 PM, Aug 10, 2012
