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Boston city of Massachusetts in United States witnessing the last chance Invitational Indoor Meeting at their local University, was agog with surprising record breaking performance yesterday on the first day of the three days meeting. German’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen ran the fourth fastest 5000m indoor ever run when she broke Romanian Gabriela Szabo’s European 5000m record. […]

The AIU was set up by the world  body in 2017 to combat drug-taking in athletics, succeeding World Athletics’ in-house anti-doping department. Brett Clothier the head of AIU said more than a third of the AIU’s cases are “World Championship or Olympic medallists or major marathon winners”. Clothier added: “Based on what has happened in […]

The three times Olympics Champion who smashed a vial containing his blood samples with an hammer -Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has been handed 8 years ban. The Court Of Arbitration ( Cas) said “the athlete failed to establish that he had a compelling justification to destroy his sample collection container and forgo the doping control. […]

Majority of top South Africa athletes were full of praise for the Athletics South Africa after a successfully end of 3 days relay camping which comprised of 22 athletes last weekend at Tuks Athletics Stadium at the University of Pretoria in Tshwane. The first two days of the training under the supervision of national relay […]

Tunis capital of Tunisia witnessed the scintilating display of African table tennis heavyweight in 2020 ITTF-Africa Top 16 Cup yesterday. In the group stage for men, Olajide Omotayo and Aruna Quadri qualify for the quarter final. But in the female, only Offiong Edem made it to the quarter final while Fatimo Bello lost two matches […]

The 4 times Olympics Champion, Mo Farah has admitted lying when he denied knowing a controversial coach Jama Aden who was arrested for doping offence. Coach Jama Aden has been photographed with Farah on several occasions, was led away in handcuffs in June 2016 when Spanish anti-doping officials allegedly found 3 different types of the […]

The two time World Champion and Olympics silver medalist, the triple jump specialist Yulima Rojas has finally broken triple jump Indoor World record with an incredible jump of 15.43m. The Caracas born 6ft 4 timed her best for the last leg of World Indoor Tour in the beautiful city of Madrid, Spain. Liadagmispovea came second […]

The 2015 American Marathon Champion and 2012 10,000m Champion Amy Cragg has opted out of the American Olympics Marathon trial due for February 29th. The marathon bronze medalist in 2017 World Championship is down with Epstein-Barr virus according a post on her social media. “The trials are the reason I have shown up every day […]

In Lievin the commune of Pas-de Calais north of France, the host of another World Athletics Indoor Meet; a place known for record breaking. Few hours ago, Armand Duplantis could not continue his record breaking form as he stopped at 6.07m to win his pole vault. Hugues Zango too could not jump higher than 17.51m […]

The most improved African sprinter this indoor season Gina Bass of Gambia was in her best form of her life in Lievin(Meeting Pas-de Calais). In the 60m, she broke the Gambia record again by beating one of the African great, the Ivorian Ahoure Murrielle in 7.11s to Ahoure 7.12s. Del Ponte 7.26 (3rd), Philip Asha […]

Wayde Van Niekerk the World 400m record holder won his first race this year on come back trail in Bloemfontein on Monday. He finished first in 100m at an unofficial University meet on grass in an hand-timed 10.20s. “It is good to be back running and I am satisfied with my time. Thanks again to […]

Few days ago, Usain Bolt the 8 times Olympics gold medalist dropped a hint that he may come out of retirement. But his fellow former athlete who lives very close to his house in Jamaica Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce felt he quit too early. She reckoned he could have dug deep to extend his love affair with […]

At present, the like of Jemma Reekie and 5 times European Champion Laura Muir were allowed to run in Nike’s prototype shoes not available in the shops under the new regulation which will bring it’s ban effective from April. Speculation are rife that her recent improvement is linked to her Nike’s prototype shoes. The 21 […]

The cyber group called OurMine has successfully hacked the International Olympics Committee (IOC) Twitter account this evening. A post from the hacking group appeared on handles belonging to the IOC, including the official Olympics and IOC media accounts this evening. The Athletes 365, Youth Olympics Games and official Rio 2016 account were among the other […]

Christian Coleman the World 60m Record holder with 6.34s narrowly missed another World Record in the final event on Saturday in the ongoing US Trial. Coleman surged into another World leading time of 6.37s to win, Mavin Bracy 6.49s, Brandon Carnes 6.49s followed by Demek Kemp 6.55s. In the female version, Mikiah Brisco shot to […]

Jamaica Sport minister Olivia Grange announced that her administration will begin to provide from next month a $20,000 weekly grant (to be paid monthly) to athletes who have qualified or who are on the verge of advancing to the Olympics and Paralympic Games which is to be held in Tokyo Japan this year. She made […]

On beautiful Saturday in Muller Indoor Grand Prix in the great city of Glasgow, the 20 years old Swedish sensational has again broken the World pole vault record by jumping into a new hight of 6.18m. In the 400m males, Jamaica Akeem Bloomfield won in 46.20s to American Obi Igbokwe 46.41s. In the female 400m.. […]

Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume have put themselves as the best female Nigeria athletes at the moment. Tobi was in her best on Friday at the ISTAF Indoor Mercedes Benz Arena, Berlin when she came on top with scintillating 7.89s. Ese Brume in the long jump push the home girl Mihambo Malaika to the last […]

A 31 years old 5ft 8 Victoria Park Harriers athletes and a former 400m 2013 European champion-Perri Shakes-Drayton has retired. “There comes a point where you’ve get to decide to call it a day”, she said. “I have had a tough battle with injuries but I managed to come back in 2017 and get a […]

The 2011 World 100m champion Yohan Blake, said he would quit the 200m after he finished a disappointing 5th place in the 100m at the World Athletics Championship in Doha last year in other to fully concentrate on the shorter Sprint event. But after finished his first race of the season last Saturday, he reneged […]

At the unveiling of Asafa Powell’s statue yesterday at the independent park in Jamaica to celebrate him for his contribution to the legacy of Jamaica athletics. The 37 years old Jamaica legend was interviewed by Star sports; he then said “this year is a very big year, it’s Olympic Games. A lot of people are […]

UK Sport has commissioned an independent review into UK Athletics because of issues recently raised which he has been a major concern particularly in recent months. UK Athletics faced criticism over the handling of it’s relationship with the banned Coach Alberto Salazar and the disbanded Nike Oregon project. Read more-www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics

The defending World Triple Jump Champion Yulimar Rojas shown like a million stars yesterday in Metz Indoor Meet that witnesses a general average performances. Rojas produced a superlative jump of 15.04m to break her own record. In the 60m female, Gina Bass was the fastest with 7.29s and Cisse Arthur was able to beat the […]

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The reigning World 800m champion Donovan Blazier has ran the 5th fastest 800m indoor and a new American record of 1.44.22s. Ellen Purrier took everyone by surprise by breaking Mary Slainy’s 37 years American mile record by 3s to record the second fastest times in history in 4.16.8s. Jemmas in her form of her life […]

On a day the Poland land of Torun witnessed a World record from Armand Duplantis, Tobi Amusan and Brume gave a good account of themselves. Tobi came second in 60h with a time of 7.89s. Brume also was second in her long jump specialist with a jump of 6.62m. James Dasaolu was more grace in […]

The American born Swedish Pole Vault sensational, Armand Duplantis has finally got his wish after erasing Renaud Lavillenje’ 6.16m world Indoor set in Donesty, Ukraine in 2014 to 6.17m. The 2019 World Championship silver medalist achieved this feat on his second attempt after six jumps in the competition. The 20 years old swedish held the […]

Odion Ighalo the new signing of Manchester United, will be left out of United Spain warm wheather training camp which they will embark on in few days to come due to border regulation relating to the spread of Corovirus. According to their manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer; “because of the situation in China, we are not […]

In a beautiful early morning in cosmopolitan city of Lagos, the green horn Kenya David Tumo defy all expectations to upset a very strong field to erase Lagos Access City Meet record to set 2.10.35s.