Australia
Mottram faces Ethiopian test
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia -
… Fekele have been lured to Melbourne to race against Mottram in the Australian 5000 metres championship at the world athletics Grand Prix meeting. …
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Buster ready for little brother
The Age, Australia -
This year, Athletics Australia announced yesterday, it will be “Buster versus Bekele” over 5000 metres at Olympic Park on February 21. It is not the Bekele, …
Next hurdle 14-sec mark
Macarthur Chronicle, Australia -
Small was disappointed when he failed to qualify for last year’s world junior athletics championships. Instead, he’s consoled himself by focusing on a world …
John Steffensen accused of parking in a ‘disabled spot’
NEWS.com.au, Australia -
HE’S been warned to “walk it, not talk it” on the track, after an alleged verbal attack on Olympics golden girl Glynis Nunn-Cearns last month. …
Summer Down Under welcomes world mark
Athletics Australia
Sunday’s competition in the 2008 Arrive Alive Summer Down Under International Track and Road Racing Series saw a new world record set in the T53 men’s 800m race, heading an exciting final day of elite racing. …
New Zealand/Oceania
Just the long of it
Wanganui Chronicle, New Zealand -
By DAVID OGILVIE AUCKLAND long jumper/sprinter Jeff Thumath’s feeling pretty good about life at present and he looked very sharp at Wanganui’s Cooks Classic …
Athletics: Win for April Brough at Hobart athletics classic
TV3 News, New Zealand -
New Zealand’s April Brough won the 100m at the Graeme Briggs Memorial Athletics Classic in Hobart, Tasmania, last night. Brough clocked 11.99 seconds to …
Williams blows away field and gets blown away by the easterly
Wanganui Chronicle, New Zealand -
By DAVID OGILVIE IF KIWI Olympic 400m hopeful Monique Williams further cuts her 200m time at Canberra this Saturday, she might thank a “blow-out” she had at …
Bulikiobo stamps her mark in Brisbane
Fiji Times, Fiji -
All athletes will be competing in the Australian Athletics Grand Prix event in Canberra this weekend which should be a great test for them competing against …
Marianas runners win Half Marathon
Saipan Tribune, Micronesia -
The race is held in cooperation with Marianas Visitors Authority, Northern Marianas Athletics, Northwest Airlines, Excite.com, and Oakley. …
UK
Sport in Brief
Times Online, UK -
Athletics Craig Pickering, the British sprinter, has called on his fellow athletes to take more responsibility when it comes to out-of-competition drugs …
I am very aware of how athletics has fallen out of public favour …
BBC Sport, UK -
If we go back twenty years athletics attracted a lot more media attention than now. I just hope that we do not have to become a circus rather than a sport. …
Kirk is jumping for joy after a Sheff special
ChronicleLive, UK -
CHRIS KIRK soared out to 7:75 metres to win the Start Fitness-supported Northern Athletics Indoor senior long jump title at the EIS Centre, Sheffield. …
ATHLETICS TRACK UNDER ATTACK – FROM TREES
Lincolnshire Echo, UK -
Trees beside an revamped athletics track could be chopped down – because their roots are cracking it. More than 25 trees will get the axe if planners agree …
Comeback kid!
The Voice, UK -
… sharpness he will need to compete with the countries best sprinters Chambers claims the time spent away from athletics has given him a new perspective. …
Aikines-Aryeetey’s losing lesson
Guardian Unlimited, UK -
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the world junior 100m gold medallist, has not often experienced championship defeat. That is why he was left pacing about, …
Happy Harry beating the pain barrier
Daily Mail, UK -
There was no comeback by Dwain Chambers to embarrass UK Athletics at the first indoor championships of Olympic year, but the return of a star in the making …
Europe
OMEGA to sponsor European Athletics Championship Programme
European Athletics, Switzerland -
European Athletics is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with OMEGA, the manufacturer of prestige Swiss watches, to become the official …
El Himer wins Ouest-France Pays de la Loire
European Athletics, Switzerland -
Six-time French Cross Country Champion Driss El Himer ended a 4-year Kenyan stranglehold on the European Athletics permitted Ouest-France Pays de la Loire …
Asia
Sports treasures donated
China Internet Information Center|, China -
“My father was one of the four Chinese athletes competing in the athletics of the Berlin Olympic Games,” said Zhou Minghui. “The photograph album has been …
Track legend Johnson to join stars in Pro-Am
Gulf Times, Qatar -
By a Correspondent Although known more for his prowess on the athletics track, US running legend Michael Johnson will wear spikes of a different kind when …
Athletes aim for 20-Olympian target
Viet Nam News, Vietnam -
In track and field, Viet Nam are pinning their hopes on athletes in the women’s 100m, 800m, 1500m and high jumping events. Vietnamese Vu Thi Huong passed …
Africa
Unrest casts pall over Kenya’s sporting hopes
Guardian Unlimited, UK -
Some athletics camps have been forced to close. Top managers such as Englishman Ricky Simms and Italian Gianni Demadonna, whose camps have the cream of …
ATHLETICS: Kelai wins Mumbai race to put Kenya top
Daily Nation, Kenya -
Kenyan John Kelai won his second consecutive Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, completing the course in a stunning time of 2:12:22, just two seconds from …
ATHLETICS: AK now cancels Nairobi cross country tourney over unrest
Daily Nation, Kenya -
Instead, Athletics Kenya (AK) has instructed the province to pick its representatives from institutions for the National Cross Country Championships due …
Athletics: Grandma’s Marathon Mourns Loss of Defending Champion
RunnersWeb, Canada -
(Duluth, Minn.) Grandma’s Marathon has suffered a great loss with the news that two-time men’s champion Wesly Ngetich was killed today during ongoing …
Haile’s Beijing date with destiny
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco -
But for Geb, Tergat would be considered the greatest distance runner in modern athletics history. The Kenyan won five successive World Cross titles, …
Etea beats Tegabe in Ethiopian Short and Middle Distance champs
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco -
… (17-19 January 2008), a test event organized by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) for the 16th CAA African Championships in April 2008. …
Perfect weather for marathon running
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa -
Vuso Nkonzo, running for Mr Price Athletics Club, won the 42,2km men‘s section with a time of 2:28:28 while Leanne Finlay of Harmony Athletics Club won the …
Carribean
Trinidad’s Boldon calls for life bans for first-time dope cheats
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands -
Boldon, who was visiting Jamaica, said the sport of athletics is losing its credibility because of drugs cheats. “In principle, I think first time offenders …
Girls on track to be Olympic stars
Cay Compass, Cayman Islands -
By Ron Shillingford, ron@cfp.ky Cayman’s track and field juniors are enthusiastically preparing for various meets later this year and none more so than …
High School Relays Prove Competitive
The Bahama Journal, Bahamas -
The Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations on Saturday past continued the 2008 track and field season with the annual high school relay championships …
Donald Thomas is Civil Society Athlete of Year
The Bahama Journal, Bahamas -
His fellow track and field elite Derrick Atkins was one of the three finalists for the award. Atkins established himself in 2007 as one of the top three …
USA/Americas
Athletics: Tirunesh Dibaba joins field for Reebok Boston Indoor Games
RunnersWeb, Canada -
Sponsored by Reebok International Ltd., with its world headquarters in Canton, Mass., the event is owned and produced by Global Athletics & Marketing, Inc., …
(RRW) Athletics: Note On The News – Watch USA vs. The World On The Web
RunnersWeb, Canada -
Today’s USA vs. The World – Run For The Dream meeting, the first event of the 2008 USATF Visa Indoor Championship Series, will be boadcast on the web today …
(RWire) Athletics: Dirba, Fulton Win Carlsbad Marathon
RunnersWeb, Canada -
By Patrice Malloy CARLSBAD, Calif. – (January 20, 2008) – International rivalry and heated team spirit took to the normally laid-back streets of the seaside …
Track and field team faces mid-season hurdle
University News (subscription), MO -
UMKC Athletics Director Tim Hall relieved Head Track and Field Coach Theo Hamilton of his coaching duties Jan. 14. Stressing criteria he has used to …
Boyer wins, places and shows at Kansas Invitational
University News (subscription), MO -
Shrugging off adversity faced earlier in the week upon the dismissal of former head coach Theo Hamilton, the UMKC track and field squad represented well on …
Perez Earns Empire 8 Female Track Athlete of the Week Honors for …
RIT Athletics, NY -
ROCHESTER, NY — LaKeisha Perez (Buffalo, NY) of the RIT women’s indoor track and field squad, was named the Empire 8 Female Track Athlete of the Week on …
Tracksters toss off victory
UI The Daily Iowan (subscription), IA -
Throws have anchored the Iowa men’s track and field team since assistant Scott Cappos came on board as the throws coach. With a pair of provisional …
Elite Vaulters Wow Dome Crowd
Yankton Daily Press (subscription), SD -
It was amazing,” said Schroeder, a pole vaulter for the South Dakota State men’s track and field team. “It just shows that you don’t have to be from a big …
Turmoil in Kenya made for a tense holiday in Georgetown
Austin American-Statesman, TX -
Paul Guevara was spending the holidays in Kenya with two of his track and field teammates from the University of Alabama. When rioting broke out after the …
Canada/Other Americas
UBC high jumper leaps into a different future
Vancouver Province, Canada -
The magic 2.30 mark is also the IAAF Olympic “A” standard, but Athletics Canada has tougher criteria and doesn’t accept indoor jumps for the Olympics. …
Games/General
BOCOG denies deaths on Olympic stadium construction
ABC Online, Australia -
It will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as track and field, and soccer at the Games, beginning August 8. Sunday’s newspaper report said the …
Dopers ‘will try their luck in Beijing’
South China Morning Post (subscription), Hong Kong -
The real race to watch at the Olympics will be between doped-up athletes as they try to escape the clutches of determined anti-dopers, experts claimed …
Is Dwain Chambers “Clean” Enough For Sport’s Image?
Blogcritics.org, OH -
He attempted valiantly to play in the limelight in America, turn over a new leaf, walk past the transgressions he committed in the sport of track and field …