Following the recent news that the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will feature finals during the morning sessions of the athletics programme, the IAAF has today published the full timetable.“Staging finals in the morning was
Great Britain and Northern Ireland topped the medal table and equalled last year's medal haul with nine medals at the European Cross Country Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria. This included individual gold medals for Gemma Steel (coach: John Nuttall) and Rhona Auckland (Joyce Hogg) in the senio...
Kenenisa Bekele's next marathon will be in Dubai. The organisers of the Standard Chartered Dubai marathon in conjunction with Dubai Holding announced the news at a press conference in the Desert Emirate on Sunday. The major investment conglomerate Dubai Holding, supporter of the marathon, has
It was an all women athletes press conference ahead of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Samokov. Sophie Duarte (FRA), defending women’s senior champion “I think this is a hard course and on a day like tomorrow, I don’t think you can have one plan.
The traditional pre-event press conference took place in the host town of the Samokov, Bulgaria, and was split into two parts: with European Athletics officials and local dignitaries facing the media first. Below are excerpts from this section of the press conference. Hänsjorg Wirz, President E...
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