Banned 10 years: Yousef Mohammed Al-Asiri of Saudi Arabia
Yousef Mohammed Al-Asiri of Saudi Arabia has been banned for 10 years from the sport of athletics by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
In...
Kenya’s president William Ruto attempts to legislate capital punishment for drug dealers
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Kenya's president, William Ruto, is attempting to legislate capital punishment for drug dealers. It is already a...
India is the most doped country for third consecutive year, Kenya most doped in...
According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), India has the most suspended athletes from doping for the third consecutive year. While Russia historically is...
OPINION: The IOC wants Russian youth competing internationally, moving the country toward full reinstatement
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) moved forward with the idea of permitting Russia and Belarus to compete in international events.
The IOC wants Russia...
Tallahassee World Cross Country Championships offers replica alligators, mud and water hazards, but who...
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The 2026 Tallahassee World Cross Country Championships course offers a course unlike any other.
Replica alligators
The organizing committee has created a pancake-flat course which...
SUSPENDED: Ethiopian Jemila Wortesa, Ugandan Mercyline Chelengat for doping, Emmanuel Kipruto Kiprop for disclosure...
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Ethiopian Jemila Wortesa and Ugandan Mercyline Chelangat were suspended for doping by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)...
Not a Happy Ganna to Bone Cheluke of Ethiopia who tested positive for steroids
Ethiopian distance runner Bone Cheluke has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), as announced on Wednesday, December 17.
She tested positive...
Credibility lost: Citius Magazine accepts payment for publication
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Michael Johnson, the four-time Olympic gold medallist and former world record holder in the 400-metre event, who...
The world is Athing Mu-Nikolayev’s oyster, if she wants it
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William Shakespeare wrote in The Merry Wives of Windsor a line where the swaggering Pistol says, "Why,...
“Dopers at the elite level are evading detection,” declares AIU Chair, David Howman
There exists a not-so-quiet whisper campaign amongst the athletics fandom that there may be protectionism at the top rung in the sport of doping....
