JAAF officials regret IOC's decision to move marathon, race walk events to Sapporo
"Athlete first" is a magical phrase. When you use it, people will be convinced. Well, maybe it doesn't always work, like for some of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations executives. The development committee of the sport's governing body in the country held a news conference ...
Caster Semenya declines Rabat 800-meter race invitation, organizers say
Caster Semenya was invited on Friday to run in an 800-meter race in Morocco on Sunday — after previously saying she had been denied the right to participate in the event — but the invitation came too late for her to get there, her ...
IAAF chief Sebastian Coe lauds Abdul Hakim Sani Brown as 'phenomenal talent'
IAAF president Sebastian Coe on Sunday hailed Japanese sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown as a “phenomenal talent” following the 20-year-old’s sub-10-second run in the 100 meters. Sani Brown, a student-athlete at the University of Florida, became just the second Japanese runner to break the 10-second ...
Koki Ikeda tops 20-km race walk in IAAF's first global rankings
Koki Ikeda was named the first 20-km race walk world No. 1 when the International Association of Athletics Federations launched its new official rankings system on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Ikeda won his spot atop the list after placing in the top-5 in three races since ...
JOC president Tsunekazu Takeda vows to clear his name in corruption probe
Tsunekazu Takeda, who is under investigation by French authorities, told the Japanese Olympic Committee executive board on Tuesday he will work to fight bribery allegations linked to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. At a board meeting in Tokyo, the JOC president apologized ...
Organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics denied on Friday that vote buying helped to secure the games after a French newspaper reported that a Brazilian businessman made payments to the son of an International Olympic Committee member before the vote. Le Monde said a company ...
Coe insists he didn't mislead British Parliamentary committee during doping probe
IAAF chief Sebastian Coe has denied that he misled a British Parliamentary committee investigating doping in sport when he appeared before it last December. Central to Coe's evidence was his insistence that he did not know the specific detail of an email sent to him ...
Gold in 1964 Tokyo Games set Cassell on life path
From humble roots growing up in a coal mining camp in Wise County, Virginia, Ollan Cassell built a successful, inspiring career in track and field. After first attending East Tennessee State, he rose to prominence at the University of Houston, then continued his athletic career ...
For the third time in a week, Russia was stripped of a track-and-field medal Saturday after another athlete tested positive in a reanalysis of doping samples from previous Olympics. Evgenia Kolodko was disqualified and stripped of the silver medal in the women's shot put from ...
Russian pole vault great Isinbayeva ends career with parting shot at track chiefs
Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva announced her retirement on Friday and claimed "God will judge" track and field's governing body for denying her the chance to compete at the Rio Games. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Isinbayeva, who was elected to the International Olympic Committee's ...
IAAF rejects 67 Russian applications to compete internationally
The IAAF's Doping Review Board has turned down applications from 67 Russian athletes to compete internationally as individuals following a blanket ban on the country's track and field athletes for systematic doping. The All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) said in a statement on Saturday it was ...
Japan's 2004 Athens Olympic hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi on Saturday welcomed the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decision to uphold its ban of Russia's track and field team over allegations of doping. The move prevents Russia's athletes from competing in track and field ...
