Athletics

Re-vote ordered after Bubka fails to get IAAF vice-president role

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in Daegu

August 24 - Confusion reigned here today at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Congress as a re-vote was ordered after Sergey Bubka, the man seen as a potential successor to President Lamine Diack (pictured), sensationally failed to earn election as one of the four vice-presidents.

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Pistorius is a Paralympian through and through, claims IPC President

By Emily Goddard

By Tom Degun in London

August 23 - Sir Philip Craven, the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), has claimed he would be happy to see sprinter Oscar Pistorius compete at the London 2012 Olympics next year because he is sure the South African is 100 per cent committed to the Paralympic Games.

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Farah highlights Ethiopian legend Bekele as main threat at Worlds

By Emily Goddard

By Tom Degun

August 23 - Britain's Mo Farah has highlighted Ethiopian long distance running icon Kenenisa Bekele as his main threat for gold in the 10,000 metres at the World Athletics Championships, which get underway in Daegu this weekend.

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Exclusive: Diack cleared by IOC Ethics Commission over Panorama bribery allegation, he claims

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in Daegu

August 23 - Lamine Diack has claimed on the eve of his re-election here as President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that he has been cleared of any wrongdoing after he was accused of taking bribes in a Panorama programme broadcast by the BBC last November.

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Frenchman to take over as new general secretary of IAAF

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in Daegu

August 23 - Essar Gabriel is to take over as the new general secretary of the International Associationof Athletics Federations (IAAF), it has been announced here.

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London 2017 World Championship bid to face opposition from Barcelona

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in Daegu

August 21 - London's bid to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships will face strong opposition from Barcelona after the Real Federación Española de Atletismo (RFEA) revealed here today that they were putting forward the host city of the 1992 Olympics and Paralympics as its candidate.

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Klishina and Arslan voted European Athletes of the Month for July

By Marcus Crawley

August 20 - European Athletics has announced that Russian long jump sensation Darya Klishina and Turkish mountain running specialist Ahmet Arslan have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for July.

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Exclusive: Warner confident that continuing doubts over Olympic Stadium future will not harm London 2017 World Championship bid

By Tom Degun

August 19 - Ed Warner, the chairman of UK Athletics, has claimed that he is confident the persistent doubts over the future of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford will have no bearing on London's bid to host the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the venue.

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Exclusive: Scrap Pistorius race to stop him becoming bigger than the Paralympics says Baroness Tanni

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun in Bath

August 18 - Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson, Britain's best known Paralympian, has controversially claimed that the Paralympic event that Oscar Pistorius competes in should be banned from disability sport competition so that the Games does not become a B-standard event to the Olympics.

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London will bid for 2017 World Championships despite uncertainty of Olympic Stadium

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay

August 18 - UK Athletics today confirmed it will bid to host the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the Olympic Stadium despite the doubts that persist over its future.

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Mullings misses the World Championships as he waits for B sample result

By Mike Rowbottom

August 17 – Steve Mullings, who has been left out of the Jamaican team for this month's IAAF World Championships after it emerged a sample he gave at the National Championships in late June contained a banned diuretic, is maintaining his innocence while awaiting the result of the analysis of his B sample.

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Exclusive: Key scientist in Pistorius case insists he is running on level playing field

By Duncan Mackay

By Mike Rowbottom

August 16 - Claims that Oscar Pistorius should not be allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes have been strongly refuted by the scientist who played a key part in helping him earn that right at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) three years ago.

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Pistorius big in Korea despite controversy over participation

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun

August 15 - Multiple Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is set to have huge support from the South Korean public at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu later this month as he has already built up a large following in the country according to South Korean Ambassador to South Africa Yoon Lee.

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I'm outside my comfort zone with the 200 and 400 metre double in Daegu says Felix

By Tom Degun

August 15 - United States track and field sprint star Allyson Felix admits that she will be outside her comfort zone when she attempts the 200 and 400 metres double at the World Championships in Daegu later this month but says that it will allow her to see if she can attempt the feat again at the London 2012 Olympics next year.

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Exclusive: Pistorius is getting "F1 advantage" and should not compete in Olympics, says South African sports scientist

By Duncan Mackay

By Mike Rowbottom

August 14 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) decision to allow South Africa's multiple Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius to compete against able-bodied athletes was "a complete farce", according to a fellow South African sports scientist, Dr Ross Tucker, who compares the technological advances involved in making Pistorius's prosthetic blade "legs" to those in Formula One.

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