The Rio 100h Champion, American Brianna McNeal finally break silence over her provisional suspension, antagonize Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on accusation of “tampering within the results management process”. “The system is pretty messed up if you ask me but that’s another topic for another day,” she said. In an Instagram post McNeal added it had been “tough […]
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Nijat Rahimov, a Kazakhstan gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Dumitru Captari of Romania – who also competed in the under-77 kilograms event in Rio de Janeiro have been provisional suspended for urine sample swapping. Both men now stand suspended after being charged under article 2.2 of the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) […]
South Africa Wayde Van Niekerk, the World 400m Record Holder and Olympics Champion opened up on how he went through a bout of depression after his injury in 2017 in an interview with BBC sport. “The first two weeks were very difficult and showed signs of me climbing into a dark space,” he said. “So […]
Both UK Sport and British Athletes Commission (BAC) are deeply worried about the recent allegations by some British gymnasts about an existing abuse in British gymnastics. UK Sport has confirmed it is investigating the “shocking and upsetting” allegations of serious physical and emotional abuse of British gymnasts – with one former leading competitor claiming she […]
One of Australia’s youngest swimmers to win an Olympic gold medal Kyle Chalmers has put himself forward as a potential doping whistle blower after his claim of wide spread of doping in swimming. Olympic swimming champion Chalmers claimed that he cannot trust half of his opponents as “a lot of doping”occurs in the swimming. The […]
In what looks like a pot calling a keg black when a Russian sponsored website made a scathing attack on Kenya and also tried to make them the black sheep of the athletics family. The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has now issued a response to that allegation which depicted Kenya as “the main supplier […]
The Aries Merritt the 110m hurdle World record holder and Olympics Champion still want to prove a point for his last Olympics next year if he qualify. Merritt broke the world record and also became Olympics Champion in 2012. But soon after 2013 World championship, it’s has been struggle with illness despite managing to win […]