by ttreurope | Apr 3, 2013 | Doping, Featured, News
Former world and Olympic champions Svetlana Krivelyova and Olga Kuzenkova have been banned for two years each for failing drugs tests after their samples were re-examined, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Kuzenkova, 2004 Olympic...
by ttreurope | Mar 14, 2013 | NewsFeed
The European Indoor Championships get underway in Gothenburg, Sweden, tomorrow with a 28-strong team representing GB & NI. Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff, Scott Simpson) will go into the pole vault with a European leading mark of 4.77m set at the British Athletics...
by ttreurope | Mar 14, 2013 | NewsFeed
World record holder Paula Radcliffe has welcomed the decision of World Marathon Majors (WMM) to revise their athlete contracts to include stricter anti-doping penalties. The organisers of the Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York marathons have changed...
by ttreurope | Mar 14, 2013 | NewsFeed
Swedish athletics legend Carolina Kluft and the organisers of next week’s 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championship are challenging athletics fans in Sweden to help raise the event to world-class status for sustainability by completing 10 climate promises and...
by ttreurope | Mar 14, 2013 | Xnewsfeed
The UK’s best cross country runners will battle it out for a place on the GB & NI team for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships as they line up at the World Cross Country Trials & Inter County Championships inc. McCain Challenge final at Birmingham’s...