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Mike Rowbottom: Gebrselassie’s Law - "Without Ethiopia, no Kenya; without Kenya, no Ethiopia"

  • Inside the Blogs

From where he was sitting in the Salle de Mer of Monaco’s Fairmont Hotel last Thursday, Haile Gebrselassie had a view clear over the Mediterranean Sea. But as his gaze fell on that mass of sun-dazzled, shifting water, his vision was of his Ethiopian homeland and what he hoped to do for those athletes following in his illustrious wake.

Since being elected as the President of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation last month, the 43-year-old

10,000m gold this summer and saw her named last Friday in Monaco as the International Association of Athletics

s.A total of 13 medals (six golds, six silvers, one bronze) gave Kenya second place in the Rio 2016 athletics

of the Year awards in Monaco ©Philippe Fitte for IAAF“We have to change a lot of things in Ethiopian athletics

“And our relationship outside athletics is wonderful.


Pound tells International Society of Olympic Historians gathering that IOC lost "moral authority" over Russia

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) most senior member said the organisation lost "its moral authority" when it refused to ban the entire Russian team from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

(ISOH) in London that the IOC should have followed the example of the International Association of Athletics

travelled to London included the prominent German sports writer Volker Kluge, Dutch historian Tony Bijkerk, athletics


Kenyan deputy Chef de Mission awarded bail after accused of hoarding stolen kit

  • ANOCA

Ben Ekumbo, Kenya's deputy Chef de Mission at the Rio Olympic Games and chair of the Kenyan Swimming Federation (KSF), has reportedly been released on bail today following his arrest for allegedly hoarding stolen kit at his Nairobi apartment.

athletes.He was detained last month after police investigators allegedly recovered boxes containing athletics

now testify against her colleagues.NOCK chairman Kipchoge Keino, a double Olympic gold medallist in athletics



Eurovision Production Coordination revealed as favourite candidate to provide host broadcasting services for Glasgow 2018

  • Berlin and Glasgow 2018

Glasgow 2018 has revealed that Eurovision Production Coordination (EPC) are the preferred bidder to provide Host Broadcasting Services (HBS) for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.

staged every four years, the European Championships will combine the existing European Championships of Athletics

federations and event organisers providing host broadcast services during major sporting events including Athletics

while a further 1,500 athletes will compete in the German capital of Berlin as part of the European Athletics


Russian whistleblower Stepanova to receive anti-doping award

  • Athletics

Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova has been named as the recipient of an anti-doping award given out by Doping-Opfer-Hilfe e.V., a Berlin-based organisation that aims to help victims of organised sport.

allegations, made to German television channel ARD, led directly to an International Association of Athletics


Atos confirmed as preferred timing, scoring and results bidder for Glasgow 2018 despite Commonwealth Games controversy

  • Berlin and Glasgow 2018

Organisers of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships have confirmed Atos as the preferred bidder to provide timing, scoring and results (TSR) services for four sports at the event, despite a number of calls being made for the digital services company to be dropped when it served as a leading sponsor of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the Scottish city.

years, the 2018 European Championships will combine the existing European Championships of aquatics, athletics

and triathlon - while a further 1,500 athletes are due to compete in Berlin as part of the European Athletics


Three belated Beijing 2008 bronze medals leave sacked UK Athletics performance director Collins feeling

  • Athletics

Dave Collins, who lost his job as UK Athletics performance director after Britain failed to achieve their

women’s javelin all now due re-awarded medals by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).But he told Athletics

following retrospective doping bans - but it has come way too late to save Dave Collins' job as UK Athletics

In a big sport like athletics people are always going to have opinions."

from the four medals earned at the time and the three others likely to be made official, Team GB’s athletics

Ironically, Collins’ successor as UK Athletics performance director, Charles van Commenee, resigned after




Michael Pavitt: Commonwealth Games Federation hoping Gold Coast 2018 will make impact beyond sport

  • Inside the Blogs

During the final days of November, numerous Australian high school graduates begin making their way to Gold Coast for week-long holidays after their last exams. The city becomes host to the annual "schoolies", with parties taking place as the students aim to let their hair down.

Commonwealth Games gets underway at the Carrara Stadium, which will also host the Closing Ceremony and athletics


Exclusive: IAAF Taskforce recommend extending opportunity for Russian athletes to be allowed to compete individually

  • Athletics

look increasingly likely to remain out in the cold during next summer’s International Association of Athletics

agency TASS reported Deputy Minister for Sport, Vitaly Mutko, as saying: "I hope that the All-Russia Athletics

ARAF has since been re-named the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF).Russia’s President Vladimir Putin

support persons to supply prohibited substances to athletes".The IAAF is demanding from the Russian Athletics