Christopher Kelsall

  Rob Reid, owner of Frontrunners Footwear in Victoria, was selected for this award because of his dedication to the running community as well as his broad-based efforts with local and international outreach work in supporting cancer research and to...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated Eleven years after England’s Paula Radcliffe broke her own marathon world record with her 2:15:25 performance, during the 2003 London Marathon, there continues to be significant discussion in the running community centred on...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) got it right Wednesday, December 17th, when they announced the banning American sprint coach and former athlete John Drummond for eight years. Drummond was Tyson Gay’s coach, who...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated Recently, the focus from sports media on race-walking has unfortunately been all about whether the event will survive to see another Olympics after the Rio 2016 Games. Media has speculated or perpetuated rumours...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated Recently, German television station WRD/ARD aired a three-part documentary on apparent systematic Russian doping and cover-ups and extortion by members of the Russian Anti-doping Agency (RUSADA). There are also accusations of bribery by...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated One of Canada’s all-time great middle-distance runners - now retired - Kevin Sullivan from Branford, Ontario, ran the Honolulu Marathon today on a whim. He finished the race sporting a kit from the...

Athletics Illustrated with files from Race News Service. Image credit: Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon The Standard Dubai Marathon will host the world’s fastest runner over the 5,000 and 10,000m distances on Sunday, January 23rd. Kenenisa Bekele will take on his third...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated See message board thread, here. Hajo Seppelt, the German journalist who was the first to report on the ease of purchasing performance enhancing drugs in Kenya while posing undercover as a sports agent, has...

© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated Author: Nick Symmonds Title: Life Outside the Oval Office: The Track Less Traveled ISBN: 978-1-935270-32-4 Published by: Cool titles Category: Autobiography Pages: 230 Purchase the book, here. One of America’s all-time great half-milers, Nick Symmonds, self-penned his autobiography in 2014...

Athletics’ doping and corruption scandal caused three of the world governing body’s senior officials to quit on Thursday as it began to wake up to the explosive allegations levelled against it. The son of the president of the International Association...