Tag: Olympic Athletics
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IOC withdraws gold medal from Nadzeya
London – GBR, August 13, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has disqualified, withdrawn the medal from, and excluded Belarus’s Nadzeya Ostapchuk (athletics, women’s shot put) from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. The athlete was first requested to provide a urine sample for a doping control on 5…
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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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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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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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IAAF Press Conference following Council meeting
London – GBR, July 27, 2012: Meeting, IAAF Press Conference will be held as per the following schedule: IAAF Press Conference following the IAAF Council meeting in London What: IAAF Press Conference When: 18:00 (GMT + 1 hrs), Tuesday 31 July Where: Auditorium, British Library Conference Centre – 96 Euston Road Who: 1. Lamine Diack…