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Two of pole vaulter's records ratified by IAAF

SI.com (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

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Jelimo Stays in Hunt for Sh68 Million

All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

Olympic 800m champion Pamela Jelimo powered her way to her fifth victory in the IAAF Golden League series in Zurich, Switzerland on Friday to remain in contention for the lucrative Sh68 million ($1 million) golden jackpot.

Bolt catches cold, but rivals can't catch him

IOL (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt has confirmed his domination of the sprints at the Weltklasse IAAF Golden League meeting.

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Ukrainian pentathlete Lyudmila Blonska banned for infinity

Steroid Nation (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008

Tainted Ukrainian pentathlete and long jumper Lyudmila Blonska suffered a lifetime ban from track and field today. Blonska, who blamed her coach/husband for the methyltestosterone in her urine was given the IAAF boot. To the BBC: Ukrainian heptathlete Lyudmila Blonska has been handed a lifetime ban after testing positive for an anabolic steroid at the Beijing Olympics. The 30-year-old, who had already...

IAAF boss praises Jamaica's performance

Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008

BEIJING: LAMINE DIACK, president of the IAAF, has described Jamaica's performance

IAAF sides with Bolt on Rogge comments

Fox News (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

The president of the IAAF disagreed with IOC head Jacques Rogge's comments about the behavior of Usain Bolt after the Jamaican's world record races at the Olympics, saying such occasions merit extraordinary celebrations. "No, no, I did not mind," Lamine Diack said Saturday. Rogge criticized Bolt for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in...

Harrigan ends her season after MRI on injured foot --

Virgin Islands Daily News (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

BEIJING - A day after she was eliminated from the 100 meters dash at the Olympic Games, British Virgin Islands sprinter Tahesia Harrigan had an MRI on her left foot, which has bothered her since winning the IAAF World Indoor 60 meters bronze medal in March.

Olympics: Kalkaba happy at Africa's performance

Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

Beijing, China - Cameroonian Malboum kalkaba, president of the Africa Athletics Confederation has praised Africa's performance at the ongoing 29th Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Kalkaba, also a council member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), told PANA here that he had predicted that African athletes would emerge with 25 medals in athletics.

Heptathlon silver medallist Blonska fails doping test - Summary

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

Beijing - Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine has failed a doping test at the Beijing Games, the president of the world governing athletics body IAAF, Lamine Diack, confirmed on Wednesday. If the b-sample examination confi...

Heptathlon silver medallist Blonska fails doping test - Update

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

Beijing - Heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska has failed a doping test at the Beijing Games, the president of the world governing athletics body IAAF, Lamine Diack, confirmed on Wednesday. I have just been informed that there has been a pos...

Seven Russians suspended for doping

Beijing Olympics 2008 Live (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008

Seven Russian middle distance runners, including five athletes who had qualified for the Olympics, have been suspended by the IAAF with just one week to go before the start of the Beijing Olympics. The athletes have been accused of submitting somebody else�s urine. 4 Vote(s)

Working list of doping-banned athletes Pre-Olympics 2008

Steroid Nation (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008

Steroid Nation presents the unofficial working list of elite athletes banned from the 2008 Olympics due to doping. We compiled the list from a number of sources which we will credit soon (such as the IAAF site for track and field). Such a list is imperfect because some athletes are presumptive -- banned before tryouts. Previous media reports put the number of banned athletes at 'over 40' and now 'over...

Russian seven to face the music

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008

Athletics chiefs will allow the Russian federation to pursue disciplinary hearings against seven athletes recently banned for doping offences. The seven were temporarily suspended by the IAAF after i...

Michael Johnson, Pettigrew and Young ('98) lose 4x400m relay world mark to Michael Johnson, Andrew Valman and crew ('93)

Steroid Nation (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008

The IAAF rescinded the 1600M relay world record from the Michael Johnson relay crew 1998, and reinstated the Michael Johnson relay crew 1993's WR time. Moral to this story: don't dope and recruit Michael Johnson to run on your 4x400M relay team. The Michael Johnson relay team '98 included Andrew Pettigrew, Jerome Young, and Tyree Washington. Young and Pettigrew confessed to doping (10 years later,...

IAAF scraps 4x400m relay World record

Hindu (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008

BEIJING: The IAAF scrapped the 4x400m relay World record set by the United States in 1998 because of Antonio Pettigrew’s admission of doping. Michael Johnson, Tyree Washington and Jerome Young were also on the team that set the ...

• US 1,600-meter relay world record scrapped - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• IAAF removes U.S. 4x400m world record - Sports - The Post Chronicle
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