Deborah Pam tips husband, Emmanuel Gyang for podium finish after son’s birth
Reigning Nigeria women prize winner in the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, Deborah Pam has tipped her husband Emmanuel Gyang who is the reigning champion...
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Access Bank Lagos City Marathon: Organisers to accredit only 25 journalists
In line with Covid-19 protocols and working with the Lagos State Safety Commission and relevant agencies, organizers have announced that only 25 journalists will be...
Registration for Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Virtual race begins
Thanks to the initiative of the Project Consultant of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Bukola Olopade, thousands of runners who cannot participate in the...
Former World Athletics Council member Al Kamali handed six-month ban for gifting watches
Former World Athletics Council member Ahmad Al Kamali has been banned for six months and fined €5,000 (£4,500/$6,000) after gifting watches to African delegates. The...
Russian Athletics Federation President Yurchenko resigns after missed deadline
Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) President Yevgeny Yurchenko has resigned after the organisation missed a deadline to pay a fine to World Athletics. Yurchenko has quit...
Former IAAF boss, Lamine Diack faces possible four-year jail term
The prosecution in the French corruption trial of former global athletics supremo, Lamine Diack on Wednesday (June 17) for him to serve four years in...
Haile Gebrselassie on jail sentences for doping: “Why not have stronger punishments to make them understand?”
“For my father, running was just wasting my time. Maybe I would have become a carpenter,” says one of the greatest distance runners in history,...
World Athletics Championships chief “glad” to be scheduled first in packed 2022 calendar
Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships chief executive Niels de Vos revealed he is “glad we are going first” in a packed summer schedule in 2022....