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Chambers returns focus to running
8 May 2008
Dwain Chambers has decided to focus on reviving his sprinting career after his trial with rugby league club Castleford came to an end, BBC Sport understands.
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Seven of the world’s top 10 women are set for 100 meters at adidas Track Classic
8 May 2008
Seven women ranked among the top 10 in the world - including the last three World Champions - are expected to toe the starting line at the adidas Track Classic for what may be the best 100-meter dash of the year before the Olympic final, organizers announced on Wednesday.
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Qatar Super Grand Prix ready to go
7 May 2008
A high quality field of athletes will be seen in action during the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix to be held here on May 9.
Qatar Association of Athletics Federation President, Dahlan Al Hamad, speaking at the pre-event press conference yesterday, said that he expected a high level competition at the Qatar Sports Club on Friday.
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Bolt's blast boosts meet
7 May 2008
With Jamaican runner Asafa Powell, the 100-meter world record holder, opting out of the Jamaican International Invitational on May 3, there was little expectation that the event would create the greatest feat at the meet. Only two runners, Wallace Spearmon, Jr. of the United States (9.96) and Kim Collins of St. Kitts (9.98) had broken the 10-second mark.
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After 9.76 run - Bolt could face Gay in New York
6 May 2008
Usain Bolt’s coach says the Jamaican sensation is aiming toward a 100-meter showdown with reigning world champion Tyson Gay at the Reebok Grand Prix on May 31 in New York.
No official announcement had been made, but Bolt’s coach Glen Mills said Wednesday that the Jamaican “is scheduled to race Tyson Gay in New York.”
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Zurich track meet offers real gold prize to Felix and Richards
5 May 2008
Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards will run for actual gold in Switzerland after the Olympics.
Organizers of Zurich's Weltklasse track and field meet announced Monday that Felix and Richards will race over 200 and 400 meters at the August 29 event.
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Bolt races to second fastest 100m
4 May 2008
Jamaican Usain Bolt became the second fastest man over 100 metres when he clocked 9.76 seconds in Kingston.
The time was just two hundredths of a second slower than the world record 9.74 set last year by Asafa Powell.
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Chambers aims to compete in 2012
3 May 2008
Dwain Chambers hopes he can overturn his Olympic ban and wants to compete at the 2012 London Games, despite his attempt at a career in rugby league.
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Montgomery indicted on drugs charge
2 May 2008
The disgraced sprinter Tim Montgomery has been indicted on charges of distributing heroin, the US newspaper Virginian-Pilot has reported.
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US relay teams make medal appeal
1 May 2008
Marion Jones's US relay team-mates have filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeking to retain their 2000 Olympic medals.
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Australian Patrick Johnson wins 100m in Japan
29 April 2008
Australian sprinter Patrick Johnson has won the 100m at a track and field meet in Hiroshima, Japan.
Johnson’s winning time of 10.18 seconds was under the Olympic A qualifying standard.
But it will not officially boost his chances of being added to the Beijing Olympic Games team as the race was run with the benefit of an illegal 2.7m tailwind.
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Powell overdoes it in weightroom
29 April 2008
The pursuit of a personal best off the track has sidelined 100-meter world-record holder Asafa Powell from competition likely until the end of June.
Powell's agent, Paul Doyle, said by phone Monday that he does not expect Powell to compete again until the Jamaican National Championships on June 27-29. A pectoral muscle he recently injured while strength training has not healed as quickly as expected.
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U.S. sprint champs seek Beijing relay bids
29 April 2008
American Tyson Gay, Powell's main rival for gold in the 100 meters at the Beijing Olympics, says he would like to compete for four gold medals at the games but expects to run in three events.
Gay, who won gold in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay at the 2007 world championships, says America's strength in the 400 limits his chances of running the 4x400 relay in Beijing. U.S. runners swept the top-three places in the 400 at the world championships.
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Wariner in hot pursuit of Johnson's marks
27 April 2008
Someday, Jeremy Wariner knows, Michael Johnson's world records will go. The individual 400 meters (43.18) and the Johnson-anchored 4x400 relay (2:54.20), anyway. The 2:54.20 dates back to 1998, the 43.18 to 1999.
"And Michael, I am sure, would be happy if I did it," said Wariner after steaming a lap in 43.88 anchoring "USA Blue" to a runaway 2:59.71 victory in the men's 4x400 that featured the "USA vs. The World" series Saturday at the Penn Relays.
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Injured Powell pulls out of Penn Relays
25 April 2008
Despite rumors suggesting that Asafa Powell, the world record-holder at 100 meters was ready to compete this weekend, it was announced that the Jamaican pulled out of the Penn Relays on Friday with an injured chest muscle.
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Jones' teammates fundraising for medals
24 April 2008
Marion Jones' relay partners are raising money to pay legal fees in the fight to retain the 2000 Olympic medals they've been ordered to return.
Jones teamed with Jearl-Miles Clark, Monique Hennagan, LaTasha Colander-Richardson and Andrea Anderson to win gold in the 4x400-meter relay, and with Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson to win the bronze in the 400.
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Lewis-Francis set to miss Games
21 April 2008
Mark Lewis-Francis is almost certain to miss out on the 2008 Beijing Olympics after suffering an Achilles injury.
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Johnson picks Robles over Liu for high hurdles
17 April 2008
Although China's Liu Xiang is the 110 metres hurdles world record holder and the Olympic and world champion, veteran U.S. high hurdler Allen Johnson does not consider him the Olympic favourite
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IAAF seek explanation from Maurice Greene
17 April 2008
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has asked Maurice Greene for a complete explanation about allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, despite already putting its support behind the Olympic medal winner.
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IAAF gives backing to Greene
16 April 2008
The IAAF has put its support behind a suddenly embattled Maurice Greene after recent allegations that he used performance-enhancing substances.
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Liu, Campbell-Brown and Williams set for Reebok Grand Prix
15 April 2008
Chinese megastar Liu Xiang and world-champion sprinters Veronica Campbell-Brown and Lauryn Williams - whose photo finish at 100 meters provided one of the most-dramatic moments of the 2007 World Championships - will be among the headliners at the Reebok Grand Prix on May 31, organizers announced on Monday.
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Greene hits back over drug claims
14 April 2008
Double Olympic champion Maurice Greene has vehemently denied a report linking him to performance-enhancing drugs.
According to The New York Times, Greene was named by former discus thrower Angel Guillermo Heredia as having been supplied with banned substances.
But speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the 33-year-old American said: "This is a bad situation. My name has come up in something and it is not true.
"My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users."
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Chambers receives Berlin backing
11 April 2008
The organiser of Berlin's Golden League event believes drug cheat Dwain Chambers may be welcomed at European meetings from next year.
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Jones's teammates stripped of Olympic medals
11 April 2008
Teammates of disgraced American Olympic champion Marion Jones paid the price for her use of banned substances when they were stripped of the relay medals they won at the 2000 Sydney Games on Thursday.
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled that the U.S. teams that won gold in the 4x400 meters and bronze in the 4x100 would lose their medals after Jones admitted she had used steroids in 2000.
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Bolt, Spearmon to match strides in 100m at Jamaica Invitational
10 April 2008
World 200-metre silver and bronze medallists Usain Bolt of Jamaica and American Wallace Spearmon are set for an exciting match in the men’s 100m dash at the Jamaica International Invitational, an Area Permit Meet, scheduled for the National Stadium in Kingston, on May 3.
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Top Americans to run at Adidas
8 April 2008
World champions Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix and Jeremy Wariner are planning to compete in the Adidas Track Classic on May 18 in Carson, Calif., meet organizers announced last week.
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Sanya Richards gunning for Beijing 400 meters gold
4 April 2008
For Sanya Richards, 2007 was a disappointment even though she dominated most of her competition.
The top women’s 400 meters runner in the world, illness dashed her hopes winning the world championship in Japan, a bitter blow that only intensified when she recovered and swamped her competition in races later in the year.
With the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, Richards says she’s healthy now and is determined to claim the gold medal on the world’s biggest stage for track.
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Chambers to meet anti-doping boss
2 April 2008
Dwain Chambers will meet Britain's anti-doping chief later this month to pass on inside knowledge to help the fight against drugs cheats.
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Olympic appeal date for Pistorius
1 April 2008
Double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will find out later this month if he is allowed to run at the Olympics.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing will take place on 29 and 30 April.
In January, athletics' governing body said he could not race in able-bodied events because his prosthetic limbs give him an unfair advantage.
The 21-year-old South African disagrees and has subsequently undergone tests in the US in an attempt to prove his case.
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Katerina Thanou handed Jones's world medal
1 April 2008
Controversial Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has been awarded Marion Jones' 100m silver medal from the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton.
The IAAF annulled all the medals Jones had won since September 2000 after she admitted using the banned steroid THG.
Athletics' governing body was reluctant to award the silver to Thanou, who was suspended after missing three drugs tests on the eve of the 2004 Olympics.
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Merritt, Wariner, post top times
1 April 2008
Two Olympic medal hopefuls clocked world leading times during early season outdoor meets in the United States this past weekend.
LaShawn Merritt, silver medalist in the 400 meters at the 2007 outdoor world championship, was surprised with the 44.72 seconds he ran in the event at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, North Carolina on Mar. 28.
"It was the fastest I have opened up," Merritt, 21, told Reuters by phone Monday. "It's going to be a good year. It [the race] wasn't all out but it wasn't like I was just trying to get in a practice race. But I didn't realize I was running that fast."
Merritt topped Olympic and world champion Jeremy Wariner's outdoor opener in Melbourne on Feb. 21 by a tenth of a second for the world lead. Merritt ran 43.96 seconds to Wariner's 43.45 as both set personal bests in last year's world championships final.
Wariner ran the 200 meters in a world-leading 20.37 seconds at the Bobby Lane Invitational at the University of Texas, Arlington on Mar. 29 in his fourth outdoor meet of the season and second race in the United States this year. On Mar. 22 he ran the anchor leg on a 4x400-meter relay team that ran a winning 3:01.10 at the Texas Southern University Relays.
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Chambers still keen on Olympics
31 March 2008
Controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers says he still wants to compete at this summer's Olympic Games despite starting a month's trial in rugby league.
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Chambers 'needs league education'
30 March 2008
Dwain Chambers is "a long way" from appearing for Castleford in the Super League despite securing a trial at the club, says RFL chief Nigel Wood.
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RFL clears the way for Chambers
29 March 2008
The Rugby Football League says there is nothing to prevent disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers launching a new career in rugby league with Castleford.
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Joyner-Kersee believes Kluft could change her mind about Beijing
21 March 2008
Retired American multi-athlete and heptathlon world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee, believes Sweden’s double Olympic champion Carolina Kluft could still go back on her decision not compete in this summer’s Beijing Games.
"I truly enjoy watching her," said Joyner-Kersee, who set the heptathlon world record of 7,291 points in 1988. "She is a very fierce competitor and very determined.
"Mentally she reminds me of myself. I also like her attitude and her energy toward each event.
"I don’t know what her training is right now, [but] Carolina still has a lot of time before the Olympics.
"If she is training as a multi-eventer and just focusing on the jumps, then at any time she could show up as a heptathlete competitor at the Olympic Games.
"I would like to see her go for it. She is definitely one of the best of her generation."
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Top HS talent flocks to Nike Indoors
20 March 2008
Early in her high school career, Jackie Coward used her physical talent to overwhelm the competition in her home state of Tennessee. But whenever she would compete on the national stage, the pressure of racing against other elite athletes exposed cracks in her mental preparation.
As a freshman in 2005, she failed to qualify for the semifinals in the hurdles at the Nike Indoor Nationals, widely considered to be the top high school indoor track and field meet in the United States. At another marquee meet in her sophomore year, Coward broke concentration while trying to clear a hurdle and tumbled to the track.
"I was a mental case," said Coward, a senior at West High School in Knoxville. "I got caught up in all the hype and competition, and I choked."
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Kluft to skip Olympic heptathlon
19 March 2008
Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft will not defend her title at the Beijing Games this year.
The 25-year-old has chosen to contest the long jump and triple jump instead, boosting hopes for British heptathletes Kelly Sotherton and Jessica Ennis.
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Gay, Powell clash possible
19 March 2008
U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay, the 100- and 200-meter world champion, and Jamaica's Asafa Powell, the 100-meter world record holder, could face each other twice between now and the 2008 Olympics.
Paul Doyle, Powell's agent, told Reuters today that the runners are thinking about racing in IAAF Golden League or Grand Prix races in Europe. "They are definitely going to race before the Olympics, maybe even twice," Doyle said. "We are just trying to figure out when and where."
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Devonish plans to run until 2012
18 March 2008
Sprinter Marlon Devonish hopes to extend his career until the London Olympics in 2012.
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Olympic chief to take on Chambers
13 March 2008
British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Lord Moynihan says he will do everything in his power to make sure Dwain Chambers does not run in Beijing.
The BOA banned the British sprinter from the Olympics for life after he tested positive for THG in 2003.
The 29-year-old is considering a legal challenge in the High Court in order to make the British Olympic team.
But Moynihan said: "There will be no room for cheats in the British team as long as I am involved with the BOA."
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Christopher back on top
13 March 2008
The look on his face was one of satisfaction, not joy, when Tyler Christopher added "world champion" to his resume.
And if there were 1,000 words to be gleaned from that picture of the Edmonton sprinter crossing the finish line first in Valencia, Spain, last week, most would be spent describing the result as sweet justice at the end of a difficult climb back to the upper echelon of his event.
"His expression at the finish line, I think, is this realization that, 'hey, I'm back. I'm where I was before. I'm probably ahead of where I was before.' Those are rare moments in your career," said his coach Kevin Tyler.
Christopher, who toted his world indoor championship gold medal in the 400 metres back to Edmonton Tuesday, concurs.
"That's just me knowing that all the confidence I had was right," said the 24-year-old. "From the time I got on the plane I had it in my mind I was going to come out with gold. I would be extremely disappointed with anything else."
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Clay conquers rocky road to world gold in Spain
11 March 2008
Bryan Clay hurdled a number of challenges on his way to winning the heptathlon at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. He hopes the momentum will carry him to Olympic gold this summer
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Bolt runs 10.03 again
9 March 2008
Jamaica’s World Championships 200m silver medallist Usain Bolt equalled his personal best of 10.03seconds for the 100m, after winning the event that the Lucozade Sport/G.C. Foster Classics on Saturday.
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Tyler Christopher wins gold at world championships
9 March 2008
Tyler Christopher outsprinted Sweden's Johann Wissman and Chris Brown of the Bahamas over the final 40 metres to win the men's 400-metre race Sunday at the World Indoor Championships in Athetics in Valencia, Spain.
The 24-year-old Christopher covered the distance in 45.67 seconds, lowering his own Canadian indoor record and posting the fastest indoor time so far this season. Wissman was second in 46.04, while Brown, who placed fourth at the outdoor World's last August in Osaka, was third in 46.26.
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Chambers hints at quitting sport
8 March 2008
Dwain Chambers has hinted he could retire after securing a silver medal in the World Indoor Championships.
The controversial sprinter set a new personal best with a time of 6.54 seconds to finish behind Nigeria's Olusoji Fasuba in the 60m final.
And as the British Olympic Association (BOA) still oppose his participation in Beijing this summer, he told BBC Sport: "There may not be a return after this.
"If there's not a chance to go forward, I'll go and pursue a career elsewhere."
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Drugs athlete Jones goes to jail
7 March 2008
Former Olympic champion sprinter Marion Jones has reported to a Texas jail to begin her six-month sentence, prison officials say.
Jones, 32, pleaded guilty to lying about steroid use and involvement in a drugs fraud case last October.
She reported to the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth just before noon, said prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley.
The mother of two was stripped of five Olympic medals and has retired.
When sentenced in January, Jones was given until 11 March to begin her jail term.
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Fasuba powers home to take world 60m title in Valencia
7 March 2008
Nigerian world-leader and pre-race favourite Olusoji Fasuba ran home with the men’s 60m dash title at the IAAF World Championships in Valencia, Spain on Friday to cement his dominance in the event this season.
Fasuba’s powerhouse finish helped him to the line another fast time, a blistering 6.51secs with which dismissed the challenges posted by his other rivals.
Great Britain’s Dwain Chambers and St Kitts and Nevis’ star sprinter Kim Collins took the other medals on the day.
Both sprinters ran to the line in the same time of 6.54secs, before in the Palau Velodromo stadium tonight.
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Chambers wins silver in GB return
7 March 2008
Dwain Chambers capped his controversial comeback by claiming silver behind Olusoji Fasuba in the 60m final at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia.
Chambers set a new personal best with a time of 6.54 seconds, the same time as former world 100m champion Kim Collins, who also took silver in a dead heat.
"I would like to have won, but I can't complain with a PB," Chambers, who served a two-year drugs ban, said.
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Pound gives Chambers Olympic hope
5 March 2008
The rule that prevents Dwain Chambers from going to the Beijing Games will not stand up in court, says the ex-boss of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
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Oscar Pistorius set to discover future
4 March 2008
Double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will hear later this month if the Court of Arbitration (CAS) for Sport will allow him to run at the 2008 Olympics.
In January, athletics' governing body said he could not race in able-bodied events because his prosthetic limbs give him an unfair advantage.
The 21-year-old South African disagrees and has subsequently undergone tests in the US in an attempt to prove his case.
The CAS will announce its decision on 25 March.
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Mike Rodgers targets 'dirty' Chambers
4 March 2008
US sprinter Mike Rodgers says it would give him a lot of satisfaction to beat drugs cheat Dwain Chambers at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia.
Rodgers could face the Briton, who has returned to action for a second time after a two-year drugs ban, over 60m.
"If he is dirty, he is dirty," Rodgers, who won the American trials in 6.54 seconds, told BBC Sport.
"If I beat him it will be a more powerful thing for me because I would have beaten a dirty athlete."
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Gatlin may face increased ban for doping
3 March 2008
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to double Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin's four-year doping ban.
A U.S. arbitration panel suspended the 26-year-old American for four years in January after a positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone in 2006.
The panel ruled that the positive test was a second offence after Gatlin tested positive in 2001 for medication to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. He was reinstated by the IAAF in the following year.
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Conte lambasts athletics bosses
1 March 2008
Disgraced athletes returning from drugs bans should be forgiven, not "kicked when they are down", says former Balco boss Victor Conte.
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Gatlin makes appeal to compete in Beijing
29 February 2008
The attorney for U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin has filed an appeal of the runner's recently imposed four-year suspension from competition to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming the former world-record holder and Olympic champion in the 100 meters should be eligible to qualify for the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
Maurice Suh filed the appeal Monday. "Our case is simple," he said in a statement. "Justin should be allowed to compete in the June trials for the Beijing Olympics because the antidoping authorities violated the Americans with the Disabilities Act when it sanctioned Justin in 2001 for taking attention-deficit disorder medication and later used that sanction to bar him from participating in the Olympics."
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Justin Gatlin will not get IAAF support in appeal
29 February 2008
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will help the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) defend an appeal by Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin against a four-year doping ban.
"We will be part of the defense in the Court of Arbitration for Sport," IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said on Friday. "We are going to support USADA."
A U.S. arbitration panel suspended Gatlin for four years after a positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone in 2006.
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Powell opens with 10.04 in Melbourne
22 February 2008
World record holder Asafa Powell made a positive start to his Olympic season Thursday with an easy win in the 100 metres at the Melbourne Grand Prix.
Powell, overcoming a cut knee that curtailed his training over the past two weeks, finished in 10.04 seconds at Olympic Park, well outside his world mark of 9.74.
He was seven feet ahead of his Jamaican compatriot Michael Frater, who finished in 10.25. Former Australian record holder Matt Shirvington was third at 10.35.
Powell arrived in Australia last week with four stitches in a deep cut in his left knee suffered in an accident at home in Jamaica. He pulled out of a Sydney meet last weekend.
After undergoing a long warmup session Thursday, the 25-year-old Powell decided just an hour before the race that he would run.
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Carolina Kluft ruled out of World Indoors
22 February 2008
Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft has been forced to withdraw from next month's World Indoor Championships in Valencia because of injury.
The Swede, 25, injured her thigh on Thursday while warming up for the GE Galan International in Stockholm.
"It's a minimal tear in the muscle, but it still means the indoor season is ruined," team doctor Sverker Nilsson told Swedish news agency TT.
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Linford Christie will not be torch bearer
22 February 2008
Controversial former sprinter Linford Christie will not carry the Olympic torch when it comes to London in April.
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Asafa Powell has vowed to run 110m every race this year
21 February 2008
That may sound strange given he is the fastest 100m runner on the planet, but it is deemed necessary if the Jamaican is to win gold in Beijing.
This new-found thinking may not be put into practice tonight at Olympic Park, but the fact Powell is even a 90 per cent chance of running is a miracle of sorts.
Powell's cut knee, which has captivated Melbourne since his arrival last week, went from sore and stiff to free and ready to go within 24 hours yesterday.
After breezing through a solid training session, the world record-holder declared he would delay making a decision until 30 minutes before tonight's 8.17pm start time.
"I will just come to the meet preparing to run and if I can't come out of the blocks (in the warm-up) then it is bad luck for me," Powell said.
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Colin Jackson against Chambers GB call
21 February 2008
Former world hurdling champion Colin Jackson believes disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers should not be part of the Great Britain team.
UK Athletics has reluctantly selected Chambers for the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in March.
He served a two-year ban for taking the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone in 2003.
"I don't think it's good for other team members to have somebody alongside them who has that type of attitude to athletics," Jackson told BBC Sport.
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Athletics chief wants longer bans
19 February 2008
UK Athletics boss Niels de Vos wants tougher bans for drugs cheats in the wake of Dwain Chambers' controversial return to top-flight competition.
"The reason there has been this outrage is that the sport recognises that a two-year ban was a significant own goal," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"There is a hardening of attitudes across athletics. It is not about him."
"Two years is no worse than a serious cruciate ligament injury. Whether a four-year ban is enough is debatable."
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Chambers delays Olympics appeal
19 February 2008
Dwain Chambers will wait until after the World Indoor Championships in March before deciding whether to appeal against his lifetime Olympic ban.
Chambers' lawyer Nick Collins told BBC Sport he could take his case to compete in the Beijing Games to the High Court.
Under British Olympic Association (BOA) rules, the sprinter is banned from the Games after he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
But an advisor said Chambers is focused on running the 60m event in Valencia.
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Powell playing it smart in Olympic year
19 February 2008
Jamaican sprint ace Asafa Powell is still uncertain about his opening racing in Australia. The Commonwealth Games champion is still struggling with pains in his leg knee and has said he will not compete if he is uncomfortable.
Shortly before his departure to Australia, Powell tripped on the stairs at his home in Kingston, and injured his knee, which caused him to received four stitches.
The injury caused the world record holder to pull out of the Sydney Grand Prix last weekend with the intentions of being much better for the Melbourne Grand Prix Thursday night.
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Francis Obikwelu willing to forgive and forget
18 February 2008
The Portuguese athlete robbed of gold in 2002 says that the disgraced Briton did not commit a ‘crime’ and is welcome to train with him in Spain
If athletics is going through difficult times, it was not noticeable at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham yesterday. Almost 8,000 people watched the biggest international meet of the domestic season, the Norwich Union Grand Prix, and publicly there was no mention of a particular sprinter. Dwain Chambers was airbrushed out the meeting; he was not invited by the organisers and when the public address announcer welcomed the 60m field, his name was the natural absentee among the quality of Britain’s indoor sprinters.
It was not quite the same story in the bowels of the arena where Chambers found an unlikely ally in a man whom he cheated out of being hailed as a European champion. Almost six years ago, Portugal’s Francis Obikwelu finished second as Chambers sprinted to the 100m title in Munich. Twelve months later, the London sprinter tested positive for the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), sparking a ban and an admission that he had been using the drug during the year of his triumph.
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Oscar Pistorius targets London Olympics 2012
18 February 2008
Oscar Pistorius has set his sights on London 2012 after he was prevented from taking part in the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The 21-year-old South African double amputee sprinter was told last month by the IAAF that he could not compete because the artificial legs he uses give him an unfair advantage. The decision excluding him and other disabled athletes who use such devices from the Olympics followed a scientific investigation into his springy, blade-like prosthetics carried out by a German institution last November.
That resarch concluded that the devices gave him a clear competitive edge over able-bodied athletes as he used 25 per cent less energy expenditure once he had reached top speed. Pistorius and his agent Peet van Zyl, however, have refused to accept the IAAF decision and have hired a high-powered New York-based legal team to take an appeal to the Court of Arbritation for Sport in Lausanne.
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Star-studded pageant loses some of its shine to Dwain Chambers debate
18 February 2008
Dwain Chambers is not on the guest list but his shadow fell over one of the most glittering sports ceremonies of the year yesterday. The Laureus Sports Awards attract the biggest names, with legends such as Boris Becker, Ilie Nastase and Franz Beckenbauer, rubbing shoulders with bright new talent such as Lewis Hamilton. This city's soaring architecture and the frozen tributaries of the Neva River that criss-cross it, announced centuries of history to the celebrities arriving for this evening's awards. But the tensions of modern sport bubbled to the surface as the nominations were announced with one of the greatest athletes of all time wading into the controversy that has surrounded Chambers's attempt at a comeback.
Ed Moses, of the United States, an Olympic gold medal-winner at 400 metres hurdles in 1976 and 1984 who set a world record in his event on four occasions, has, during his retirement, worked with the International Olympic Committee to combat the use of drugs in sport.
Now one of the chairmen of the Laureus Foundation, which helps thousands of underprivileged children around the world through sport, he would not condemn Chambers's return to the track, an issue which has consumed UK Athletics.
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Asafa Powell convinced he will run aganinst drug cheats
17 February 2008
The world's fastest man, Asafa Powell, is convinced he will race against drug cheats at the Beijing Olympics.
The Jamaican has refused to name those he suspects but is adamant anyone caught testing positive should be banned for life.
"I have a lot of suspicions but I keep them to myself," Powell said ahead of Thursday's grand prix series at Olympic Park.
"It's always going to be there, that dark cloud, because people are wondering who is really on drugs."
"It's a very unfair sport. I get my satisfaction from beating whoever I think is on it."
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Drugs cheat Dwain Chambers is ‘50-50’ to make Olympics
17 February 2008
Legal experts believe Dwain Chambers has a 50-50 chance of overturning the rule that bars any British competitor found guilty of a serious drugs offence from ever taking part in the Olympic Games. With the disgraced sprinter threatening to challenge this bylaw of the British Olympic Association (BOA), the athletics world has been thrown into turmoil by his unexpected return. Chambers has been picked to run the 60m in the world indoor championships in Valencia next month even though the British selectors want to bar him.
The 29-year-old’s real target is to show that he can win an Olympic medal in Beijing in August without taking performance-enhancing substances, which led to him serving the maximum two year-ban from athletics in 2004 and missing the Athens Games.
However, it is estimated that it would cost him 150,000 GBP should he lose a case in the High Court against the BOA, the only Olympic body in the world that bans drug cheats for life. In 2004 Norway became the last country to abandon a similar regulation.
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Question Time for UK Athletics and Dwain Chambers
17 February 2008
1. Why did UK Athletics (UKA) allow Dwain Chambers to make his initial comeback in 2006 without such a fuss and then spark one of the biggest controversies second-time around?
2. If UKA is taking such a hard stance against drugs, why did it not stick to its guns and prevent Chambers from competing in its trials? He claims he has no money, so why not take him on in court?
3. Why make such a furore about selecting Chambers after he met all the qualifying criteria yet pick another drugs cheat, Carl Myerscough, in the shot put, when he did not even compete at the trials?
4. UKA has suddenly announced an of? cial review of its antidoping rules to be led by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. Is it just coincidence it has happened on the back of Chambers?
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Wells issues Chambers ultimatum
16 February 2008
Allan Wells has threatened to sever ties with the British Olympic Association if sprinter Dwain Chambers is allowed to run in Beijing.
Wells, who won the 100 metres for Great Britain at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, insists the BOA must stand by their firm anti-drugs stance.
"The BOA need to stick to this route that they have taken and not allow him to run at the Olympics," Wells said.
"I would walk away from helping the BOA if Chambers runs at the Olympics."
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Michael Johnson: I didn't come between Wariner and coach
15 February 2008
Michael Johnson, the five-time Olympic gold medalist, said Thursday he was not involved in the contract dispute that recently caused reigning 400-meter world and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner to part ways with legendary Baylor coach Clyde Hart.
Johnson, who was coached by Hart, is now Wariner's agent.
"To both those guys' credit, they didn't involve me in it, because it would've been difficult for me," Johnson said during a media event at the Michael Johnson Performance Center. "Coach Hart is like a father to me. And Jeremy, certainly I have a great relationship with him.
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Victor Conte: ‘A lot of liars are kicking Dwain Chambers and speaking of zero tolerance’
15 February 2008
If there is one person who knows how Dwain Chambers feels, it is the man who gave him the “full enchilada” of drugs before becoming sport’s most infamous whistle-blower. Victor Conte has served time in jail and been labelled a pariah, but he launched a stinging attack on what he regards as the hate, hypocrisy and hubris of British athletics before explaining what led the most talented runner of a generation to cheat.
“It’s disgusting what is happening to Dwain,” Conte, the founder of the notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco), in northern California, said. “We still speak regularly and I tell him that he can’t crawl under a rock and stay there. I spoke to him before and after his win at the trials last weekend. He’s using me as an example of how to get through this and make something of his life.”
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Allen Johnson wins at Tyson Invitational
15 February 2008
Former World and Olympic champion Allen Johnson recovered from a false start to edge Joel Brown and take the 60-meter hurdles at the Tyson Invitational on Friday night.
The 36-year-old American stopped the clock in a time of 7.60 seconds.
"Listening to people and watching the people that came before me, I thought when you hit 33, 35 years old, that you feel significantly different than you do at 25," Johnson said. "So far with me, that’s not been the case."
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Christie hopes people forgive Chambers
15 February 2008
British athletics should not dwell on the past sins of a competitor banned for doping but look ahead to winning medals, former Olympic 100-meter champion Linford Christie said on Friday.
Christie, who served a two-year ban after testing positive for the steroid, nandrolone, in 1999 when he was semi-retired, was reluctant to give an opinion about the Dwain Chambers selection issue, but said: "Let it go, be positive."
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Johnson wishes Wariner, Hart could have seen eye-to-eye
14 February 2008
Michael Johnson won his five Olympic gold medals under the tutelage of coach Clyde Hart. Johnson now serves as Jeremy Wariner’s agent.
So when it came to Hart and Wariner’s disagreement over contract terms, Johnson kept his distance. He said he had nothing to do with Wariner’s decision to leave Hart.
“To those guys credit, they didn’t involve me in it, because it would have been difficult for me,” Johnson said Thursday during media day at his Michael Johnson Performance Center. “Coach Hart is like a father to me, and certainly Jeremy, I have a great relationship with him, have mentored him, and I’ve been involved with his career since 2004. …As much as I would have liked to have tried to help the situation and make it work, it would have been difficult for me, and my relationship with both of those guys is more important.”
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Oscar Pistorius takes appeal to court
13 February 2008
Double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is taking his fight to run at this summer's Beijing Olympics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Last month, athletics' governing body said he could not race in able-bodied events because his prosthetic limbs give him an unfair advantage.
But the 21-year-old disagrees and feels more research needs to be done.
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What they say about Chambers
13 February 2008
Controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers has been included in Great Britain's squad for next month's World Indoor Championships in Valencia.
The 29-year-old - who was banned from athletics for two years after testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug THG - will compete in the 60m sprint.
UK Athletics had opposed his inclusion but reluctantly named the Londoner in their squad after he won the trials and so fulfilled the selection criteria. Here are a selection of quotes from former athletes and officials.
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GB name Chambers in Worlds squad
12 February 2008
Dwain Chambers has been included in Great Britain's squad for next month's World Indoor Championships.
The sprinter, who was banned from athletics for two years after testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug THG, will run over 60m in Spain.
UK Athletics had opposed the selection of Chambers for the three-day event in Valencia because of his doping past.
But the 29-year-old Londoner won last weekend's trials, giving team bosses little choice but to pick him.
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Powell says injured knee not serious
12 February 2008
World 100m record holder Asafa Powell has suffered a knee injury which has ruled him out of the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix on Saturday.
The 25-year-old who arrived in Melbourne on Sunday went to Australia with the injury after he stripped and cut his left knee running downstairs at his home before departing Kingston for the Australian series.
"Once a big guy like me falls on my knee it’s not going to be pretty," the sprinter told reporters in Melbourne at a conference on Tuesday.
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Dwain Chambers gives selectors headache
11 February 2008
Dwain Chambers has heaped the pressure on UK Athletics with a dominant 60m victory at the world indoor trials and national championships.
The 29-year-old's win guarantees him a place in the British squad for next month's World Indoor Championships under UKA's selection policy.
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Injured knee forces Powell out of Sydney Grand Prix
11 February 2008
Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Asafa Powell has been hit by a knee injury and has been ruled out of the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix on Saturday.
The 25-year-old who arrived in Melbourne on Sunday went "down under" with the injury, but the news only became in the focus Monday morning when the press arrived at Melbourne’s Olympic Park to watch the Jamaican scheduled practice session.
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“We just thought it was the right time” - Wariner said on coach split
10 February 2008
World and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner has said that his decision to part company with long time coach Clyde Hart was all made by him.
Reports suggested that he was influenced to change his coach, the American, who his now coach by Michael Ford, said it was all on him.
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Dwain Chambers drug row prompts rethink
8 February 2008
Niels de Vos, the chief executive of UK Athletics, has vowed to restructure the sport’s selection policy in the wake of the drug row surrounding British sprinter Dwain Chambers.
The governing body had tried to prevent Chambers, who has served a two-year drug ban, from competing at the World Indoor trials in Sheffield this weekend, but were told they had insufficient legal grounds to do so.
UKA believe that Chambers should not be allowed to compete in the 60 metres because he has not been drug tested since 2006. However, the sprinter’s lawyers threatened legal action and the UKA have been reluctantly forced to allow him to compete.
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Powell departs for Australian series
8 February 2008
World 100-metre record holder, Asafa Powell head a list of nine MVP Track Club athletes who departed Jamaica on Friday for a two-week training camp in Australia.
Also among the list of athletes in the squad for the training camp are former World silver medallists Michael Frater of Jamaica and Trinidadian Darrell Brown.
The crew also includes 2006 Commonwealth Games 200 metres champion, Sherone Simpson, hurdlers Melaine Walker and Gregory Little and sprinters Nadia Cunningham, Ainsly Waugh and Winston Smith.
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“I am not comfortable with these crooks” - Gardener wants Chambers out
7 February 2008
Jason Gardener, the former World Indoor 60m champion and Olympic relay gold medallist, has sided with UK Athletics on the subject of keeping sprinter Dwain Chambers from where the British colours again.
Gardener, who retired from the sport last year and his now working with the Youth Sport Trust in the UK, is not in favoured of Chambers making his second comeback after a doping ban at Britain’s world indoor national championships.
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Dwain Chambers will run at trials but UKA left far from happy
6 February 2008
Dwain Chambers may have been cleared to run at the trials for the World Indoor Championships on Sunday, but UK Athletics (UKA) left nobody in any doubt that it regards him as a blot on the landscape.
Niels de Vos, the UKA chief executive, accepted that he did not have a legal case to deny Chambers a place at the trials, but called for drug cheats to be “ostracised” and said the IAAF, the world governing body, needed to “crank up the pressure”. De Vos is leading a review of UKA's policy on doping offenders and wants to introduce life bans. Nick Collins, Chambers's lawyer, said that UKA could not introduce retrospective punishments.
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Jeremy Wariner gunning for world record
5 February 2008
Olympic and world champion Jeremy Wariner is convinced he will break Michael Johnson's long-standing 400-meter world record at this year's Beijing Olympics, if not before.
The 24-year-old Texan has dominated the men's one-lap event for the last four years and the world mark of 43.18 seconds set by Johnson, his mentor and agent, at the 1999 world championships is firmly in his sights.
Wariner brushed aside questions about last month's split with his long-time coach Clyde Hart and said he was totally focused on the Beijing games.
"I'm looking forward to defending my title and hopefully breaking the world record," he told Reuters on Monday.
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Dwain Chambers allowed to run after legal threat
5 February 2008
Dwain Chambers has been given the go-ahead to compete in the Norwich Union World Indoor Trials and National Championships in Sheffield this weekend.
UK Athletics announced they had sanctioned Chambers' participation, with the athlete's Leeds-based solicitors, Ford & Warren, ready to apply for a High Court injunction if he had been refused permission to compete.
Niels de Vos, the UKA chief executive, expressed his disappointment at the outcome of extensive legal deliberations, which have left the sport legally unable to refuse to offer Chambers a place in the 60 metres race on Sunday.
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Maurice Greene retires
4 February 2008
American former World and Olympic champion Maurice Greene announced his retirement from track and field on Monday.
“Today I’m officially announcing my retirement from the sport,” the 33-year-old American told reporters in Beijing.
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Five-time Olympic medalist Greene retires
4 February 2008
Former Olympic and world 100-meter champion Maurice Greene announced his retirement from athletics on Monday.
The 33-year-old American, who also held the 100-meter world record of 9.79 seconds for more than three years, said a calf injury he sustained in training last month had convinced him to end his career.
"Today I'm officially announcing my retirement from the sport," he told reporters in Beijing where he was attending an Olympic promotional event for his sponsor, Adidas.
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Tyson Gay targets another triple
4 February 2008
Tyson Gay, the new American sprint star and World Championships sprint double champion from Osaka, Japan has targeted another milestone for the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, China this summer.
Gay, who won gold medals in the the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay wants a repeat of that feat at the Olympics.
“I aim to come home with three gold medals in 100m, 200m and the 4x100 relay,” Gay was quoted as telling AFP on Monday.
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Dwain Chambers stopped in tracks as Niels de Vos begins cleansing process
4 February 2008
Dwain Chambers's dream of rebuilding his career in a Great Britain vest were dealt a damning blow yesterday as Niels de Vos, the UK Athletics (UKA) chief executive, suggested that life bans and prison terms for drug cheats would help to cleanse the sport. “This is someone who has confessed to cheating, not false-starting,” he said.
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Dwain Chambers will take on UKA to keep alive his Olympic dream
4 February 2008
They were the 6.7 seconds that plunged athletics into a moral quagmire and left Dwain Chambers talking of becoming an Olympic athlete and a totem for the anti-drugs crusade. “If you want to catch a thief, hire a thief,” the disgraced sprinter said after his controversial comeback. “I want to put back into the sport what I've taken away. I'm not a bad guy.”
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Chambers shines on track return
2 February 2008
Dwain Chambers has raised the stakes in his dispute with UK Athletics (UKA) by easily qualifying for the UK trials for the World Indoor Championships.
The sprinter clocked 6.70 secs in his 60m heat, 6.63 in his semi-final and won the final in 6.60 - a new meeting record at the Birmingham Games.
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British pair impress in Germany
2 February 2008
Britain's Craig Pickering scored a brilliant 60m victory at the Sparkassen Cup meeting in Stuttgart.
After struggling in his heat, the European silver medallist blew away his rivals to to win in 6.58 seconds.
Earlier, Chris Tomlinson broke his own British indoor long jump record by a centimetre with a leap of 8.18m. It bettered the mark he set in March 2004
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Chambers faces legal fight with British governing body
2 February 2008
Dwain Chambers cruised to the 60-meter qualifying time for the indoor British trials on Saturday, and headed for a battled with the national team’s governing body.
Chambers, who served a two-year ban for doping, won in 6.60 seconds in the final of the Birmingham Games at the National Indoor Arena. However, UK Athletics said he must be drug tested for a year before being considered for the British team.
His time is good enough for a spot at the UK Trials at Sheffield next weekend, and Chambers also wants to run at the indoor World Championships next month.
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Allen Johnson ready to run in Stuttgart
1 February 2008
American hurdler Allen Johnson had hoped the 2004 Athens games would offer a chance to reclaim the Olympic gold medal he failed to defend at the 2000 Sydney games and the glory that came along with his triumph at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Johnson had run the fastest 110-meter hurdles race in the world prior to Athens and relished his role as the U.S. track and field team captain.
But his dream faded as he fell to the track after hitting the 10th hurdle in a qualifying heat. It marked the first time in three attempts that Johnson failed to make an Olympic final in the event.
"I still don't know what happened," Johnson said on Thursday by phone from Lenz, Austria, where he had run in an indoor meet. "I just came up on the hurdle, hit it funny and went down. I was feeling good. I was in the best shape of my life. No doubt in my mind I was ready to run really, really fast."
Johnson admitted that the mishap did not fuel an ambition to compete in another Olympic games. But it has ignited a desire to win Olympic gold "a little more," he said. To that end, the 36-year-old is trying to qualify for his fourth consecutive Olympics, a record matched by about two dozen other U.S. athletes.
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IAAF opens door to Dwain Chambers comeback
30 January 2008
Dwain Chambers gained an unlikely ally in the battle to revive his career last night when the IAAF said that it had no problem with his controversial comeback. The vote of confidence from the sport's world governing body has added weight to the sprinter's legal position as he prepares to take UK Athletics (UKA) to court if it prevents him from competing in the trials for the World Indoor Championships.
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Craig Pickering remains positive as Dwain Chambers looks for way back
28 January 2008
The future’s bright, the future’s arranged. Craig Pickering and Simeon Williamson will fight out a fledgeling rivalry and drive each other towards an Olympic final, while Jessica Ennis will continue to try to win a medal for her mother’s birthday in August. The promise on offer at the indoor season opener in Glasgow on Saturday was clear, but the promise of a legal spat with Britain’s most infamous drug cheat festered.
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Chambers blocked from GB trials
26 January 2008
UK Athletics will not allow sprinter Dwain Chambers to compete for a place in the British team at the World Indoor Trials and National Championships.
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Campbell-Brown, Smith named Jamaica’s best
24 January 2008
Olympic and World champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and world silver medalist Maurice Smith were nominated Jamaica’s 2007 track and field athletes of the year on Wednesday.
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Banned Gatlin: I'm never going to give in
24 January 2008
Suspended Olympic 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin has said he will never abandon his fight to reverse a four-year doping ban.
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Gatlin takes his doping appeal to CAS
22 January 2008
Olympic and world sprint champion Justin Gatlin of the United States has filed an appeal of a four-year suspension for a doping violation to the European-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Tyson Gay would not oppose race with Pistorius
18 January 2008
U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay, the male athlete of the year for USA Track and Field and the International Association of Athletics Federations, says he has no problem with disabled runners wanting to compete against able-bodied athletes.
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Former world champion Guevara retires
17 January 2008
Mexican former world 400-metre champion Ana Guevara, one of country’s most celebrated sports figures, has announced her retirement, saying she was tired of corruption and cronyism in Mexican athletics.
The 30-year-old Guevara, who won the 400m at the 2003 world championships, the silver at the Athens Olympics and is a three-time Pan Am Games champion, often celebrated her victories by carrying the Mexican flag high above her head. But she said she could no longer compete for her country after an 11-year career.
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Chambers wants back in, UKA, Coe concerned
15 January 2008
Following media reports of British sprinter Dwain Chambers, who quit athletics to pursue a career in American Football, wanting to make a return to track action this weekend, UK Athletics is set to stop the disgraced runner’s comeback.
Chambers tested positive for the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in 2003 and was banned for two years, but reports revealed that the sprinter is planning to compete over 60metres at the Southern Counties Indoor Championships on Saturday.
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Blade sprinter set to appeal IAAF block
14 January 2008
South African ‘blade sprinter’ Oscar Pistorius will take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after he was blocked from competing in this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) barred the double amputee from participating in Beijing because his prosthetic legs were deemed an unfair advantage.
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Gatlin hires Landis' legal team
13 January 2008
Disgraced American sprinter Justin Gatlin has retained cyclist Floyd Landis' legal team in a bid to reverse a U.S. arbitration panel's decision to ban him for doping, the attorney told Reuters on Saturday.
"We plan on moving very quickly because speed is of the essence," Maurice Suh said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles.
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Penalty makes example of Jones
13 January 2008
Marion Jones's drugs disgrace has been a wake-up call for U.S. athletics, IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe said on Sunday.
Jones, who has been stripped of the five medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, was given a six-month prison sentence on Friday for lying to federal investigators over her use of steroids.
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Marion Jones gets 6 months for lying
11 January 2008
Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite her plea that she not be separated from her two young children “even for a short period of time.”
“I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be,” said Jones, who cried on her husband’s shoulder after she was sentenced.
Jones, the disgraced former Olympic champion was ordered to surrender March 11 to begin her term.
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No sympathy for Marion Jones, 6-month prison sentence
11 January 2008
Several of Utah's former and aspiring Olympians reacted with shock, dismay and disbelief Friday over the news that record-breaking sprinter Marion Jones has been sentenced to six months in prison and 800 hours of community service for lying in two federal grand jury investigations regarding illegal steroid use and check fraud.
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World record run was not planned, says Powell
8 January 2008
Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell has insisted that his record run at the IAAF World Athletics Tour Rieti Grand Prix meeting in Rieti, Italy last September was not an occasion that was planned by the coaching staff nor himself.
After making some critical mistakes at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan which cost him the gold medal in the 100-metres, Powell said he traveled to Rieti to correct those mistakes after a few days of practice sessions and not actually peruse a world record.
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Gatlin eyes appeal after ban is reduced
3 January 2008
U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin felt such strong confidence he would receive a favorable appeals decision to drug charges filed against him that he applied dietary discipline during the recent holiday season to help maintain top fitness.
"He would not eat certain things at his Christmas dinner," said John Collins, Gatlin's attorney. "I understand he's been working out very hard."
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Jones asks judge for leniency
2 January 2008
Former Olympic champion Marion Jones says she has been punished enough and should not have to go to prison for lying about steroids and check fraud.
In court papers filed on New Year's Eve, Jones' lawyers asked a federal judge to let her off with probation when he sentences her next week.
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Olympic champion Gatlin banned for four years
1 January 2008
Olympic 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin has been hit with a four-year competition ban, following a positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone in April 2006 positive, a report from the Washington Post said.
Citing several people close to the case, the paper said a split three-person U.S. arbitration panel ruled against Gatlin, 25, and settled on the four-year penalty because of a previous positive test.
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