Bolt and Isinbayeva among World Athlete finalists
Jamaican supersprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva are among the six finalists for the World Athlete of the Year award. The governing body IAAF said in a statement on Monday that the Bolt, who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the Beijing Olympics in world record times, double long-distance gold medallist...

Bolt and Isinbayeva among World Athlete finalists

Germany's top athletes face stringent new anti-doping rules
Germany's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) will introduce from the start of 2009 strict new rules requiring the country's top athletes to make themselves available for at least one hour a day for random dope tests. "During this hour, one would have to wait for a tester at a certain place," said NADA legal advisor Anja...

Germany's top athletes face stringent new anti-doping rules

IAAF imposes bans on eight Russian athletes for doping
 The IAAF, the governing body of world athletics, has imposed two-year doping bans on eight Russian athletes for testing positive a varied of substances, including the banned blood-booster EPO. It emerged Thursday that the athletes are mostly from the sport of walking and include Vladimir Kanaykin, the 20-kilometre walk world record...

IAAF imposes bans on eight Russian athletes for doping

Hamilton and Massa battle it out for world
 The 2008 Formula One season reaches its thrilling conclusion with the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos this weekend when Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes and Ferrari's Felipe Massa battle it out for the drivers' world championship crown. Hamilton needs just a fifth place finish to ensure he goes into the record books as the...

Hamilton and Massa battle it out for world

Italian cyclists' union calls for lifetime bans for doping offences
The Italian cyclists' union AACPI has called in a letter to UCI president Pat McQuaid for life bans to be imposed cyclists who fail dope tests and refuse to cooperate with the authorities. The demand contradicts the current World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines of a two-year ban for doping as well as McQuaid's preference for the...

Italian cyclists' union calls for lifetime bans for doping offences

Small Estonian town welcomes big boys of Sumo
The north Estonian town of Rakvere is an unlikely venue for a world championship of any sort, let alone the exotic rituals of Japanese Sumo wrestling. Yet thanks to the feats of a local boy made good, Rakvere (population 17,000) will host the 16th Sumo world championships on Saturday and Sunday. Around 400 competitors from 32...

Small Estonian town welcomes big boys of Sumo

German long jumper Prah banned after cocaine test
German long jumper Kofi Amoah Prah, who was fifth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has been banned for two years after a positive test for cocaine. The German Athletic Federation said Friday that Prah, who competed for LG Nike Berlin, tested positive for cocaine and Methylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, at the German championships on...

German long jumper Prah banned after cocaine test

Chen secures China's seventh diving gold
Chen Ruolin claimed victory in the final of the women's 10-metre platform Thursday to pick up China's seventh Olympic diving gold out of seven at the Beijing Games. Chen secured the win with a total of 447.70 points with silver going to Canada's Emily Heymans, who amassed 437.05. Xin Wang also took bronze for China with 429.90 points.

Chen secures China's seventh diving gold

Competing in silence: deaf BMX cyclist fulfils Olympic dream
Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled on Wednesday her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. However, the Argentine could not hear the shouts of the crowd gathered at the BMX circuit, and she will not be able to hear her national anthem if she wins a medal on Thursday. Dutto is 98 per cent deaf, but she represents Argentina alongside Maria...

Competing in silence: deaf BMX cyclist fulfils Olympic dream

Third successive gold for Slovakia's Hochschorner brothers
Twin brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner of Slovakia claimed their third successive Olympic gold medal in the men's canoe C2 doubles event Friday, beating the Czech Republic into second place. The Hochschorners won with a time of 190.82 seconds while Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek got silver with a time 2.07 seconds slower...

Third successive gold for Slovakia's Hochschorner brothers
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