On a warm and sometimes blustery morning at the Bupa Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, recent marathon debutantes Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele showed they haven't lost too much of their formidable speed with contrasting wins o...
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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Sandra Perkovic and Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed aside, there were five more world leads at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, and a rare Diamond League double from Blessing Okagbare in the long jump and 200m on Sunday (18).
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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In the 100 metres it pays to run your own race. At pretty well every other distance, it pays to be aware of your opposition, too. Amantle Montsho and Taoufik Makhloufi appeared to forget this at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, and they pai...
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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All the predictions of who would win the 24th edition of the Nordea Riga Marathon had pointed to a Kenyan runner winning in the Latvian capital for the fourth year in succession but Japan s Yu Chiba had not been listening to the pundits and triumphed a...
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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Friday, 16 May, will remain engraved in the mind of IAAF President Lamine Diack who finally fulfilled his lifetime wish to return to Champagnole, a small French town of approximately 8400 inhabitants tucked in the midst of the magnificent forests of th...
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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With the men s high jump being one of the main events in the past two editions of the IAAF Diamond League in Lausanne, the 2014 Athletissima meeting will once again will gather together the best exponents of this event in the world, the meeting organis...
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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London 2012 Olympic Games 4x400m champion and 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships 400m silver medallist Chris Brown will be among the star attractions at this coming weekend s inaugural IAAF World Relays on home soil in Nassau. The popular Bahamian of...
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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By any measure, Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed s performance in winning the javelin at the IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai was a stunning performance on Sunday (18).
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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Many of Europe s top combined events exponents will be making their way to the Austrian city of Gotzis for the 40th anniversary edition of the famous Hypo meeting, part of the 2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge, which commences on 31 May.
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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Ivan Ukhov, perhaps the hottest man in the hottest event in the world right now, returns to the high jump apron at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Beijing on Wednesday (21).
May 20th 2014, 12:46am
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