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Amantle Montsho, the 2011 World women’s 400m champion of Botswana, tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine at the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She was provisionally suspended after…
Jamaica’s Kemar Bailey-Cole, a training partner of Olympic and World champion Usain Bolt, snatched victory in the 100m final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday (28th), the fifth…
American sprinter Justin Gatlin extended his winning streak with a resounding victory in the 200m Friday (18) at the Monaco Diamond League, securing a world leading personal best (PB) time…
Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T’s) sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye pulled up at the end of her 200m race at the annual Spitzen meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland Tuesday (15), clutching her left hamstring…
The Court of Arbitration for sport (CAS) on Monday reduced an 18-month drug ban against Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson to six months, making them eligible to compete…
The US city of Eugene, Oregon will host a deluge of athletes from all over the world for the 2014 IAAF World Juniors Championships July 22 – 27. As these…
Double Olympic silver medalist Yohan Blake pulled up midway the race in the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Diamond League 100m dash Friday and had to be carried off the track in a…
All eyes will be on the men’s 100m at the IAAF Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland today. Although today’s 100m dash is not part of the Diamond Race, it…
American Olympic bronze medalist and World silver medalist Justin Gatlin remained on his unbeaten course, when he won the 100m dash Tuesday in a world-leading 9.86secs (-0.4 m/s) in Ostrava,…
One Diamond League and five New York meet records as well as five world-leading times were established amid fickle winds at the adidas Grand Prix in New York Saturday as…