Category: ATHLETICS
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Peter Snell to be inducted into IAAF Hall of Fame
Monte-Carlo, August 04, 2012: New Zealand’s three-time Olympic champion and multiple World record breaker Peter Snell is the latest athletics legend to be named as one of the 24 inaugural Members of the IAAF Hall of Fame which has been created to mark the year of the IAAF Centenary. The announcement of this honour comes…
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IAAF Council Meeting, London 2012
London – UK, July 31, 2012: IAAF President Lamine Diack chaired the traditional Olympic Games meeting of the IAAF Council which took place today in the Pullman Hotel, St. Pancras, adjacent to the British Library Conference centre in which the IAAF Offices are based during the Games of the XXX Olympiad, London 2012. President Diack…
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ENTRY LIST and PREVIEWS now available
London, UK, July 30, 2012: The official ENTRY LIST and comprehensive EVENT PREVIEW STORIES covering the Athletics events of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, London 2012 (Friday 3 to Sunday 12 August 2012), are now available on the IAAF website. We begin today with three event groups, the SPRINTS, HURDLES, and RELAYS, and the…
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CAS Imposes a 2Year Suspension on Zoltan
Lausanne, July 26, 2012: Zoltan Kovago, The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rendered its decision in the urgent appeal filed by the International Athletics Association (IAAF) against the decision of the Doping Committee of the Hungarian National Anti-doping Organisation dated 6 June 2012 exonerating the Hungarian discus thrower Zoltan Kövago from any sanction. The…
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Biological Passport, Special Analyses, Re-Testing
Monte-Carlo, July 25, 2012: Within days of the start of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, London 2012, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is pleased to announce the latest successes in its fight against doping in Athletics, serving a warning to all those who attempt to cheat their sport and their fellow competitors…
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Perpetuating a close relationship between Monaco and the IAAF
Monaco – July 18, 2012: Perpetuating, A life-size ice sculpture of a runner, a giant birthday cake decked with images of the IAAF Hall of Fame athletes, and the unveiling of a commemorative postage stamp were the centre pieces of a wonderful party hosted in the gardens of the Palace in Monaco last night on…
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Palace of Monaco marks IAAF Centenary
Monaco – July 17, 2012: IAAF Centenary, This evening H.S.H. Prince Albert and H.S.H. Princess Charlène welcomed a large delegation from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to a private function within the Palace of Monaco to celebrate the Centenary Day of the IAAF. Their Serene Highnesses greeted the IAAF party which was led…
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IAAF World Athletics Day Draw 2012
Monaco – The 2012 IAAF World Athletics Day Draw took place last night (16) during the IAAF Centenary Founding Members’ Dinner in the Fairmont Hotel, Monte-Carlo. Now in its 17th year the IAAF World Athletics Day is one of the busiest programmes of competitions in the annual global Athletics calendar with this year’s edition having…
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100 years of the Decathlon – IAAF Centenary
Monaco – July 13, 2012: In the morning of 13 July 1912 twenty-nine athletes stood at the start of a new discipline at the Olympic Games in Stockholm. It is exactly 100 years ago today that the first Decathlon in its current composition was held in an official meeting. Because of the large number of…
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Prepares to celebrate 100th birthday
Monaco – July 12, 2012: 100th birthday, The Headquarters of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is preparing for some very special birthday celebrations next week in Monaco, the Mediterranean Principality which has been the home of the sport’s world governing body since October 1993. 100th birthday, On the 17 July 1912 in Stockholm,…