OK so now I have youre attention. I saw this picture recently and it made me think about how many girls are running these days. Like many runners I am out pounding the streets in the evening and weekends through the winter dark nights, over the last two or three years the number of runners [...]
Kenenisa Bekele suspension lifted
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Jessica Ennis bemoans lack of attention to sport in primary schools
May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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. Tweet This Post
Olympian quits rather than take drugs test
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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”. Tweet This [...]
Musinschi fastest European Marathon runner of the year
May 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
