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Reigning Olympics Champion Stefanidi Back To Her ‘Good Luck’ US Training Camp For Tokyo Olympics

The greatest female athlete in the history of Greek sport and reigning Olympics women’s pole vault champion, Katerina Stefanidi is returning to her ‘good luck’ SPIRE Institute and Academy as part of her training for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games. The facility is located in Ohio, close to Lake Erie, and she will continue to […]

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Most Athletes Dismissed Coleman’s Excuses As Michael Johnson Add To The Criticism

The road of escape of doping ban for reigning World 100m Champion, Christian Coleman increasingly looks thinner as most athletes and four times Olympics Champion, Michael Jackson outrightly dismissed his excuses. Johnson, who earned 4x400m relay gold at Barcelona 1992, 200m and 400m gold at Atlanta 1996 and 400m gold at Sydney 2000, criticised Coleman […]

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Coe Said Athletics Meeting May Flag-Off With Empty Stadium As Stefanidi Won Ultimate Garden Clash

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe opened up when asked by insidethegames if circumstances may require athletes’ efforts to be viewed via television rather than directly by spectators, Coe responded: “In the short term we may have to compromise on that. “We can’t be oblivious or tin-eared to what we are being told by local communities and public […]

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Leading Women Pole Vaulter To Go Better In Another Tripod Pole Vault Competition Tommorow

In what look like what men can do women can do better; women leading pole vaulter want to emulate their men counterpart in Ultimate Garden Clash tomorrow. Individually, reigning Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece, two-time US indoor winner Katie Nageotte and Commonwealth Games champion Alysha Newman of Canada will compete head-to-head-to-head to see who […]

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World Athletics Set Up Relief Fund

World Athletics, together with the International Athletics Foundation (IAF), has set-up a support fund worth $500,000 (£400,000/€459,000) to help athletes through the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. IAF was established in 1986 to support charity in athletics and founded by Honorary President Prince Albert II of Monaco, the IAF has allocated resources from […]