Tag: Sebastian Coe
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Chile proposes cheap Pan Am Games … at $507 million; the...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● XIX Pan American Games 2023 ● The organizing committee of the 2023...
LANE ONE: World Athletics and The Athletics Association should be talking schedule, not events
Though the focus of the Olympic world is on what will happen to Russia at Monday’s World Anti-Doping Agency meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, there...
LANE ONE: IAAF taking the lead in transgender regulation, working with other IFs on...
Advancements in medical technologies have brought new challenges to sports regulators, especially the International Federations. One of the newest battlefields is transgender athletes.
Back in...
TSX REPORT: Was holding the IAAF Worlds in Doha a good idea? The competition...
= TSX REPORT ~ 7 October 2019 =
| 1. | LANE ONE: Was the IAAF World Championships a success or failure in Doha?
The IAAF World Championships in Doha,...
LANE ONE: Was the IAAF World Championships a success or failure in Doha?
The 2019 IAAF World Championships was mired in controversy as soon as it was awarded to Doha, Qatar in 2014 and scheduled to begin...
TSX REPORT: The IAAF chose Doha during the Lamine Diack regime; his last laugh?...
= TSX REPORT~ 2 October 2019 =
| 1. | LANE ONE: Are the IAAF World Championships in Doha the last laugh for Lamine Diack?
The ongoing...
LANE ONE: Are the IAAF World Championships the last laugh for Lamine Diack?
For those who care about track & field – as I do – the current edition of the IAAF World Championships are at the...
LANE ONE: Why Russia’s situation for Tokyo rests with the World Anti-Doping Agency and...
At Friday’s joint news conference between the International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach of Germany and IAAF President Sebastian Coe of Great Britain, the...
TSX DAILY: Russia acknowledges Tokyo participation in jeopardy, but RUSADA held blameless; Coe re-elected...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 26 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LEADING OFF: While Russia may be suspended, anti-doping agencies come to the aid of RUSADA
A...
LANE ONE: “We have to thank Willie Banks for everything”
That was the headline on a feature story from the pre-meet news conference before last Friday’s AG Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, Belgium, the...
THE BIG PICTURE: IAAF keeps Russia on suspension, then changes its name to World...
No change.
That was the decision of the International Association of Athletics Associations (IAAF) concerning the Russian Athletics Federation at its Council meeting in Monaco...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Another London weightlifter disqualified, new doping rules about contaminated meat, it...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● The International Olympic Committee announced another doping positive from its...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: WADA chief Reedie says he is “unsure” of winning against doping
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● Britain’s Craig Reedie is the elected head of the World...
ATHLETICS Panorama: Semenya jumps into Diamond League 800 m in Doha
She wasn’t entered in the entry lists posted on Tuesday, but a day after losing her request for arbitration against the female eligibility rules...
ATHLETICS Panorama: 14 outdoor world leaders, but how about 10.91w for 19-year-old Sha’Carri Richardson!
A furious weekend of track & field, especially at the Florida Relays, Texas Relays and Stanford Invitational produced more than a dozen world-leading (outdoor)...
LANE ONE: The IAAF is changing track & field: computers are in, distance races...
One of the great things about track & field is its simplicity.
Who threw the furthest? Who ran the fastest?
The technology to measure these events...
ATHLETICS: IAAF Council wants to revamp the Diamond League; keeps Russia at bay
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council met in Doha (QAT) and made some major changes to the way the sport will be...
LANE ONE: To grow track & field, Sebastian Coe of 2019 needs to talk...
Britain’s Sebastian Coe was one of the finest middle-distance runners of all time. He was so good and so special that he sold thousands...
THE BIG PICTURE: IAAF stays femininity regs until Court review is completed
The International Assn. of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Athletics South Africa have agreed that the implementation of the IAAF’s new Eligibility Regulations for the...
Let’s make the Decathlon and Heptathlon more like the Modern Pentathlon!
Track and field athletes, officials and fans have all heard the joke: “What’s more exciting: the Decathlon or watching paint dry?”
If you’re not into...
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