Tag: IAAF
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Colombian runner exclude from London
London – GBR, August 12, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has excluded Colombian athlete Diego Palomeque Echavarria (athletics, men’s 400m) from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. The athlete had been provisionally suspended on 4 August 2012. Eighteen-year-old Palomeque Echavarria, who was scheduled to compete on 4 August,…
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IOC disqualifies hurdler Almouhamad
London – GBR, August 11, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has disqualified Syrian athlete Ghfran Almouhamad from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London for an anti-doping rule violation. Almouhamad, 23, provided a urine sample on 3 August 2012 in London that indicated the presence of methylhexaneamine. The analysis…
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IAAF Council creates new World Relays competition
August 10, 2012: The IAAF Council has decided to create a new competition called the “IAAF World Relays” with the first editions taking place in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2014 and 2015. This new two day competition will bring together the world’s best athletes, with a schedule that includes the traditional 4x100m and 4x400m events…
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IOC bans Alex Schwazer from competing at London
London – GBR, August 10, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it had declared Italian athlete Alex Schwazer (race walking) ineligible to compete at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London for an anti-doping rule violation. Schwazer, 27, provided a urine sample on 30 July in Calice, Italy, that tested positive…
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IAAF World Championships Moscow
Monte-Carlo, August 10, 2012: There is one year to go to the start of the 2013 IAAF World Championships which will be staged in Moscow, Russia from 10 to 18 August 2013. By the end of last year’s 13th edition of the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea, teams from 200 National Member Federations comprising…
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Every sport has its major events
London – UK, August 04, 2012: every sport, That event will take place tomorrow evening (Sunday) and it is shaping up to be the greatest of all-time. The four fastest men in history all made it safely through the heats, and they will square off against one another first in the semi-finals, then again two…
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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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Ennis, Farah and Rutherford take gold
London – UK, August 04, 2012: The Sydney Olympics in 2000 is remembered for ‘Magic Monday’ – the day in which Cathy Freeman won 400m gold for the host nation Australia. In a similar vein, ‘Super Saturday’ of the London 2012 Games will long live in the memory as the day in which Britain won…
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The CAS rejects the request of Nour-Eddine
London Olympic: The CAS rejects the request of Nour-Eddine Gezzar London Olympic: The CAS rejects the request of Nour-Eddine Gezzar London Olympic: The CAS rejects the request of Nour-Eddine Gezzar London, August 02, 2012 – The ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected the urgent application filed by the…
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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…