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Tag: LaShawn Merritt

  • 2014 IAAF Diamond League

    Monaco, Apr 11, 2014: With one month to go before the start of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League, the excitement is already starting to mount and the traditional opening meeting in Doha, Qatar, has already assembled some of the sport’s top stars to get proceedings for the fifth year of the series underway. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce,…

  • Pearson and Oliver help launch IAAF / Nestlé Kids Athletics

    Melbourne, Mar 19, 2014: It’s not usual to see kids lining up to hurl something at a poster of one of Australia’s most popular athletes, but if Kim Mickle had been at Melbourne’s Loreto Mandeville Hall on a sunny Wednesday morning she would not have minded one bit. For one thing, a woman who described…

  • IAAF announces names of candidates Award

    Monaco – Oct 01, 2013: The IAAF is pleased to announce the names of the 10 men and 10 women who have been shortlisted for the 2013 World Athlete of the Year Award. The candidates have been selected by an IAAF panel of athletics experts*. An email poll involving the World Athletics Family begins today,…

  • Top 10 duels to watch at the Doha Diamond League

    Top 10 duels to watch at the Doha Diamond League

    Doha-Qatar, May 04, 2012 – Doha Diamond League, It’s true that athletics is not a team sport where two squads are facing each other but there are many examples in sport’s history when the center of attention is focused on a rivalry between two male or female athletes in a specific discipline. At the kick…