Russian athletes suspended until April 2011
Published: 22 July, 2009, 19:36
Sport’s highest court has extended doping bans until April 30, 2011, for seven Russian athletes who tampered with urine samples.
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Russia's middle-distance runner Anna Alminova has failed a doping test at the indoor world athletics championships, which took place in Doha, Qatar, in the middle of March.
Most athletes competing at the top level are using doping, says World High Jump Champion Yaroslav Rybakov.
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Three time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has won his first world title with an incredible time of 9.58 seconds. That broke the record of 9.69 that Bolt set last year in Bejing.
18.05.2009, 11:00
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Usain Bolt has set yet another world record. The triple Olympic champion is now the fastest in the world at 150 meters after winning a street race in Manchester, AP news agency reports.
2006 Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva says she’s shocked by the current doping situation on Russia’s biathlon team, Novye Izvestia newspaper reports.
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Current long jump world record holder Mike Powell claims Jamaican star sprinter Usain Bolt could break his own record and jump over 9 metres, Reuters reports.
The first ever Youth Olympic Games have been officially closed in Singapore, putting en end to 12 days of competition, seen much more widely than a triumph for Chinese and Russian athletes.
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With two months to go until the start of the World Athletics Championships, no less than three Beijing gold-medalists have chosen the annual Russian Challenge tournament to fine-tune their skills.
On Tuesday, European football’s governing body, the UEFA, joined forces with FIFA in unanimously rejecting WADA's controversial ‘whereabouts’ rule – a move which they may pay dearly for.
It was one of the biggest scandals to hit Russian sport in a generation. Two of the country's most decorated biathletes have been banned for two years for doping - but are they guilty?
Published: 22 July, 2009, 19:36
Sport’s highest court has extended doping bans until April 30, 2011, for seven Russian athletes who tampered with urine samples.