Run, Runners & Running
Ethiopian long-distance athlete Kenenisa Bekele has had his ban on competing lifted by his governing body.
The Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion was banned from representing Ethiopia along with 34 other athletes for not attending a mandatory training camp.
But the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) said: “They [the athletes] have pledged to respect the body’s directives from now on.” [Read more...]
Jessica Ennis, the world heptathlon champion, and indoor pentathlon champion, believes that “radical changes” should be made to make Britain’s primary schoolchildren physically literate.
this is a call-to-sporting-arms from Ennis, 24, for the next government which takes office.
Austrian marathon runner Eva-Maria Gradwohl retired Tuesday after refusing to take a doping test while on vacation in Croatia last week.
The 37-year-old Gradwohl said she was “tired of indicating every day where I am and what I do, and wait an hour every day whether I'll get a doping test or not”. [Read more...]
Reigning Olympic and World Champion sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser will be competing at the Aviva British Grand Prix, held at the Gateshead International Stadium, on Saturday 10th July.
Fraser, heralded as the ‘female Usain Bolt’ is the only Jamaican woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal for the 100m sprint, even beating Merlene Ottey’s national record by one hundredth of a second with 10.73, which took her to fourth on the World’s ‘all time’ list. After her victory in Berlin last year, Fraser became just the second woman (after Gail Devers) to hold Olympic and World 100m titles simultaneously. [Read more...]
Moldova’s Iaroslav Musinschi took nearly two minutes off his national Marathon record with a course record 2:08:32 at the Dusseldorf Marathon on Sunday.
The 33 year-old runner is also the fastest European runner so far this year and the first to go under the 2:10 barrier.
Musinschi came home ahead of 4,200 runners in the race in calm conditions with temperatures hovering around the 12 degrees Celsius mark to win 21,000 euros in prize money. [Read more...]
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