2016 Rio Olympics – Athletics – Final – Men’s 1500m Final – Olympic Stadium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 20/08/2016. Matthew Centrowitz (USA) of USA celebrates winning gold medal. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Matthew Centrowitz, who at the Rio Olympics became the firs... More »
Japan Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda speaks during a news conference in support of the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics candidacy in Buenos Aires September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci Tokyo prosecutors have questioned the president of the Japan O... More »
Hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson poses for a portrait at the U.S. Olympic Committee Media Summit in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Beijing Olympics 100 meters hurdles champion Dawn Harper-Nelson has been banned for three... More »
Embattled Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter will return to the track this weekend in his first meeting since he was stripped of his Beijing Olympics gold medal after a retroactive test uncovered a banned substance in his sample. More »
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the fastest ever women’s 2,000 meters at the indoor Miting Internacional de Catalunya meeting in Sabadell, Spain on Tuesday. More »
Sebastian Coe (C), IAAF’s President, Rune Andersen, head of the IAAF taskforce on Russia (R) and Hamad Kalkaba Malboum (L), President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) attend a press conference as part of the International Association of Athletic... More »
Russian track and field athletes look certain to miss out on this year’s world championships after an IAAF task force recommended on Monday that the country’s ban should run until November. More »
Newly-crowned Miss Universe Iris Mittenaere from France gestures during a news conference inside a Mall of Asia arena in metro Manila, Philippines January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco A dental student from Paris was crowned Miss Universe on Monday, becoming ... More »
Fashion designer, model and singer Victoria Beckham poses on the red carpet as she arrives for the opening ceremony and the screening of the film ”Cafe Society” out of competition during the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Yv... More »
Wrapped up warmly with layers of clothing, gloves, hats and goggles, the runners await the blasting siren marking the start of the race before heading off onto the barren track. More »
U.S. skeleton athletes are considering boycotting the world championships in Sochi next year in protest at the Russian doping scandal and how it has been handled, the New York Times reported on Sunday. More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Athletics – Victory Ceremony – Men’s 4 x 100m Relay Victory Ceremony – Olympic Stadium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 20/08/2016. Gold medalist Usain Bolt (JAM) of Jamaica celebrates. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi Usain Bolt is set to race in Aust... More »
Britain Athletics – Team GB – Rio 2016 Endurance Athletes Media Session – Grange Tower Hotel, London – 24/7/16Team GB’s Laura Weightman poses for a photoAction Images via Reuters / Matthew ChildsLivepic Laura Weightman expressed disappointment at British Athle... More »
Tyson Gay of USA reacts after his men’s 4 X 100m relay was disqualified in the final at the 2016 Rio Olympics in an August 19, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files The 15-year-old daughter of U.S. Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay died on Sunday after being ... More »
American marketing executive Zak Brown, who has been linked to a role in Formula One after Liberty Media’s takeover, announced on Monday he was stepping down from his current role as head of CSM Sport & Entertainment at the end of the year. More »
By Jack Stubbs | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Russian long jumper Darya Klishina will compete at the Rio Olympics after her ban from the Games was struck down by sport’s highest court on the eve of her event. Russian track and field suffered a final humiliati... More »
By Nick Mulvenney | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk ran the fastest single lap in history to win the Olympic 400 meters gold medal in 43.03 seconds and break Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record on Sunday. Running an extrao... More »
By Nick Mulvenney | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Wayde van Niekerk’s rivalry with Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt has brought about a new golden age in 400 meters running but the two previous Olympic champions were simply stunned by the South African’s world... More »
By Scott Malone | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO American Justin Gatlin felt the full force of the crowd’s ire on Sunday and scowled back in response before finishing second to Usain Bolt in the Olympic 100 meters final and miss out on becoming the oldest man t... More »
By Nick Mulvenney | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Win or lose, Usain Bolt was always going to dominate the Olympic headlines on Sunday but Wayde van Niekerk offered his embattled sport some hope for the future beyond the Jamaican’s retirement with a stunning w... More »
MOSCOW Yelena Isinbayeva is to run for president of the Russian athletics federation (ARAF), the double Olympic pole vault champion said. Isinbayeva, who is unable to compete at the Rio Olympics due to a doping ban on Russia’s athletics team, said on Thursday ... More »
BERLIN When record Olympic champion Michael Phelps and the king of sprinting Usain Bolt resume their hunt for world records and gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics next month they will not be the only big stories in town. A team of refugees, hand-picked... More »
RIYADH The Saudi Olympic Committee has approved four female Saudi athletes to compete as part of the conservative Gulf kingdom’s team at the Rio Olympics, a spokesman said on Sunday. Sara Al-Attar, Lubna Al-Omair, Cariman Abu Al-Jadail and Wujud Fahmi will bec... More »
NAIROBI Kenya is investigating newspaper allegations that doctors from the country supplied prohibited performance enhancing drugs to British athletes, a government minister said on Tuesday. Undercover footage taken by the Sunday Times showed two Kenyan doctor... More »
LONDON Usain Bolt will fine-tune his preparations for the Rio Olympics by competing at the Anniversary Games in London on July 22. Organizers of the event, staged at the stadium where Bolt won double sprint gold and the 4x100m relay in 2012, said the Jamaican ... More »
MOSCOW Russia’s sports ministry said on Monday it was “certain” about the transparency of its doping controls during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and that independent observers had managed the testing operation daily. The ministry was responding to alleg... More »
Whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov told Reuters on Monday he nearly aborted his plan to expose widespread doping in Russian athletics when the World Anti-Doping Agency was slow to act on information he provided them. Stepanov, who previously worked for Russia’s ant... More »
MELBOURNE The “arrogance” of senior officials brought corruption-related turmoil to world soccer but important governance reforms could restore its credibility, according to influential sports administrator Kevan Gosper. Former International Olympic Committee ... More »
British astronaut Tim Peake became the first man to complete a marathon in space on Sunday, running the classic 26.2 mile distance while strapped to a treadmill aboard the International Space Station. As part of the London Marathon, Britain’s biggest mass part... More »
PRETORIA Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius will face sentencing in June following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013. “The matter is postponed to the 13th of June 2016, and it wil... More »
SOFIA Bulgarian triple jumper Gabriela Petrova has tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, joining the long list of athletes, including tennis champion Maria Sharapova, who have recorded positive tests for the drug. The 23-year-old, who won the sil... More »
The recent wave of positive tests has thrust sports doping back in the headlines but it is not just athletes seeking to enhance performance who are taking banned substances, a Norwegian anti-doping official has told Reuters. Morten Heierdal of Anti-Doping Norw... More »
NAIROBI The Kenyan athletes’ representative, Noah Ngeny, has quit his post, saying that the country’s sporting authorities were not doing enough to tackle a doping crisis. Kenya is a global leader in endurance running, both on the track and in city marathons b... More »
Former collegiate champion Sandi Morris stunned world record holder Jenn Suhr to win the pole vault title at the U.S. indoor championships in Portland, Oregon on Saturday. Morris cleared a lifetime best of 4.95 meters while Suhr, who set the world indoor recor... More »
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina Athletics’ crisis-hit governing body needs to be completely restructured, but IAAF president Sebastian Coe should be given the chance to lead the reforms, former world hurdles champion David Oliver has told Reuters. “It (the IAAF)... More »
LONDON The 19th century courtyards of Britain’s parliament echoed to the strains of Hubert Parry’s “Jerusalem” on Wednesday in one of the loudest public shows of support for a possible new anthem to be played at English sports events. One lawmaker has challeng... More »
LONDON UK Athletics (UKA) has called for world records to be wiped clean and drug cheats to be banned for at least eight years in radical proposals aimed at heralding a new unblemished era for the sport. UKA’s document “A Manifesto for Clean Athletics” was pub... More »
SYDNEY The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) could face recommendations that include suspension from the Olympics when the second part of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) report is released, according to one of the doping body’s in... More »
LONDONA report by the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday is set to deepen an athletics scandal that, according to one of the document’s authors, eclipses even the alleged corruption at soccer’s governing body FIFA. According to leaks to a French investigative ... More »
TOKYO Japanese centenarian Hidekichi Miyazaki set a fresh record as the world’s oldest competitive sprinter this week, one day after turning 105, but said he was disappointed at falling short of his own personal best. “I wanted to shave off a few more seconds ... More »
BEIJING A television cameraman and his Segway succeeded in doing what none of Usain Bolt’s rivals could in the 200 meters final at world championships on Thursday — knock the Jamaican off his stride, and his feet, during his lap of honor. Bolt was taking the p... More »
USA Track & Field (USATF) on Tuesday released a detailed breakdown of how it spends its money in response to an allegation made by runner Nick Symmonds that the body spends a tiny proportion of its income on athlete support. Symmonds, who won the 800 meters at... More »
KUALA LUMPUR The head of world athletics vigorously defended the IAAF’s anti-doping record on Monday, as global sporting bodies called for a thorough probe of the latest allegations to plunge international sport into crisis. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper an... More »
KUALA LUMPUR The head of world athletics said on Monday that any suggestion his organization had been negligent in drug testing of athletes was “laughable”. “There are allegations made, no evidence,” IAAF president Lamine Diack told Reuters in the Malaysian ca... More »
KINGSTON Jamaica are banking on a mix of youth and experience to continue their dominance in the sprint events at the Aug. 22-30 world championships in Beijing event after some strong performances at its four-day trials. The full team will not be named until t... More »
