Search

  • Sort results by:

3850 results Showing results 1441 to 1455


Usain Bolt Foundation joins IAAF Athletes for a Better World programme

  • Athletics

The Usain Bolt Foundation will become part of the International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) Athletes for a Better World programme, the Jamaican multiple-Olympic sprinting champion has announced.

Foundation is partnering with ‘Athletics for a Better World’,” newly-elected IAAF President Sebastian Coe



Bach, Coe and Hickey to speak at next European Athletics Convention

  • Athletics

Thomas Bach, newly-elected International Association of Athletics Federations President Sebastian Coe

speak at the opening of the new-look Convention on the morning of Friday October 16.Any comments from Coe

hear.European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen (second left) has invited Thomas Bach, Sebastian Coe

: Hansen seeks European-only races to develop middle and long distance talentAugust 2015: Coe


David Owen: The Olympic business question that will overhang this fascinating 2024 contest

  • Inside the Blogs

There were no major last-minute surprises: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach duly confirmed in an early morning (for me) conference call that the five cities we all knew about – Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome – will contest the race for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

different by September 2017.Quite a few new IOC members – perhaps including new athletics supremo Lord Coe


IAAF President Coe predicts "bright future" for athletics in speech to staff

  • Athletics

Newly elected International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe predicted

starting work as President at a time when there are widespread allegations of doping in athletics, with Coe

“Not only am I happy to be here, I’m relieved,” said Coe, who defeated Ukrainian rival Sergey Bubka

only had five predecessors as President, each one making an indelible mark on our sport.Sebastian Coe

while he has confirmed a plan to appoint Bubka as Senior Vice President.Related storiesSeptember 2015: Coe

innocenceSeptember 2015: Radcliffe claims blood test results show she is cleanSeptember 2015: IAAF President Coe





Müller partner with British Olympic Association ahead of Rio 2016

  • EOC

Dairy product giants Müller have become an official partner of the British team on the road to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced.

market-leading brand, and we are delighted they are an official Team GB partner,” BOA chairman Sebastian Coe

on the list of the BOA’s official partners.Newly-elected IAAF President and BOA chairman Sebastian Coe


WADA come to defence of Radcliffe as emerges IAAF warned Parliamentary Committee about identifying athletes

  • Athletics

The circumstances which led to Britain's world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe believing she had to go public to clear her name because she had been personally implicated in a United Kingdom  Parliamentary Select Committee hearing have been described as “very unfortunate” by David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Related storiesSeptember 2015: Coe warns Radcliffe should not be victim of "McCarthyesque witch-hunt"

innocenceSeptember 2015: Radcliffe claims blood test results show she is cleanSeptember 2015: IAAF President Coe



Rugby to embark on "golden period" claims Gosper ahead of 2015 World Cup

  • Rugby Sevens

Brett Gosper, chief executive of World Rugby, has predicted the sport is set to embark on a “golden period” with the 2015 World Cup set to begin next week in England, before the rugby sevens makes its Olympic debut next year in Rio de Janeiro. 

developing the game in the areas like the US.A high-powered panel, chaired by new IAAF President Sebastian Coe



Radcliffe claims blood test results show she is clean

  • Athletics

The details of the three contentious blood test results which were used to cast doubt on the veracity of Paula Radcliffe’s athletic performances by two experts working with The Sunday Times have been revealed by Sky News - and she claims the evidence backs up her insistence she is a clean athlete

a suspicion and certainly not proven by the results".Related storiesSeptember 2015: IAAF President Coe