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Mack. View member profile	15th March 2020, 04:07 PM Post #21
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Two-time Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya says she is "supernatural" as she confidently targets the 200m at Tokyo 2020. The 29-year-old cannot compete in events between 400m and a mile without taking testosterone-reducing drugs after a World Athletics rule change. South African Semenya ran 200m in 23.49 seconds - 0.69secs outside the Olympic qualifying time - at an event in Pretoria on Friday.


PeteFromLeeds View member profile	17th March 2020, 04:11 PM Post #22
Buy yourself a car, and a house in Devon Joined: 6 May 2016 Posts: 23,892 User: 23,247	Bold of her to assume the Olympics are going ahead


Mack. View member profile	18th March 2020, 07:14 AM Post #23
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	The first three meetings of the Diamond League season have been called off because of the coronavirus outbreak. The events were scheduled to take place in Doha, Qatar on 17 April, Shanghai on 16 May and another Chinese venue that was yet to be named, on 9 May. Organisers hope to stage the Shanghai meeting on 13 August. No new dates for the other two meetings have been announced, but they could be held after the Diamond League final in Zurich in September.


Mack. View member profile	24th April 2020, 11:21 PM Post #24
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	The Diamond League plans to stage a behind-closed doors exhibition event in June after two meetings were called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. An event named 'The Impossible Games' is set to take place in Oslo on 11 June and will be televised by Norway's public broadcaster NRK. Norway's double world champion Karsten Warholm will attempt to break the world 400m hurdles record. Organisers said the event would conform with pandemic guidelines in Norway. World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said: "This is really positive news for athletes and fans and promises, even in this early stage, to be another great night of athletics from the Bislett stadium." The event will also see a pole-vault contest between world-record holder Mondo Duplantis and multiple Diamond League champion Renaud Lavillenie, though organisers stressed a full programme of competition has not yet been confirmed.


Mack. View member profile	3rd May 2020, 08:55 AM Post #25
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	World record holder Armand Duplantis will take on two-time world champion Sam Kendricks and 2012 Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie in a live-streamed pole vault contest this weekend. The event, to be held on Sunday at 16:00 BST, will see each man attempt to clear 5m as many times as possible in 30 minutes. Swede Duplantis will be vaulting at his American training base, with Lavillenie and Kendricks competing at their homes in France and the United States respectively.


Mack. View member profile	6th May 2020, 07:22 PM Post #26
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Commonwealth Games 200m medallist Leon Reid's build-up to next year's Olympics is including training stints with South African 400m star Wayde van Niekerk. Irish sprinter Reid spent the early part of this year training in South Africa with the Olympic 400m champion. Reid plans another training period with the 400m world record holder next winter as part of his Tokyo build-up.


Mack. View member profile	20th May 2020, 03:01 PM Post #27
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Eilish McColgan aims to become the first Scottish track and field athlete to compete at four Olympics. The 29-year-old middle-distance runner will make her third appearance in the 5,000m at next summer's rearranged Tokyo Games.


Mack. View member profile	28th May 2020, 10:41 PM Post #28
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	The Boston Marathon has been cancelled for the first time in its 124-year history because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The race had initially been postponed from 20 April to 14 September. However, Boston mayor Marty Walsh said the race could not be held in 2019 because of public health fears. "There's no way to hold the usual race format without bringing large numbers of people into close proximity," Walsh said on Thursday.


Mack. View member profile	18th June 2020, 11:15 PM Post #29
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	World 100m champion Christian Coleman has been provisionally suspended after missing a third doping test. The American, 24, has disputed the third whereabouts failure, on 9 December, which has been confirmed by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). He claims he was Christmas shopping "five minutes away" from home and the tester made no effort to contact him. "I have never and will never use performance enhancing supplements or drugs," Coleman posted on social media. "I am willing to take a drug test every single day for the rest of my career for all I care to prove my innocence. "I have nothing to hide but it's not possible to show that if I'm not even given a chance to."


Mack. View member profile	27th June 2020, 11:07 PM Post #30
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	The British Athletics Championships have been rescheduled for 4-5 September and will be behind closed doors. The event in Manchester, which normally acts as trials for the Olympics, was meant to be held on 20-21 June and had already been rescheduled once. "We are delighted to be able to offer our athletes an opportunity to compete," UK Athletics chief executive Joanna Coates said. There will be live coverage of the Championships on the BBC. It will be shown on BBC Two at 18:30 BST on Friday 4 September and on BBC One at 13:15 BST on Saturday 5 September.


Mack. View member profile	3rd July 2020, 11:55 PM Post #31
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Former marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang has been banned for four years for anti-doping rule violations. World Athletics said between April 2018 and May 2019 the 38-year-old Kenyan, twice a London Marathon winner, had missed four "whereabouts appointments". Three such failures within 12 months leads to an automatic ban. Kipsang said he missed a test in May 2019 because of a traffic accident and provided a photo of the crash, but that was found to be from August 2019.


Mack. View member profile	8th July 2020, 11:47 AM Post #32
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams has received an apology from the Met Police after she and her partner were pulled over in their car in a stop-and-search. Ms Williams's three-month-old son was also in the car on Saturday when it was stopped in Maida Vale. Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told a committee of MPs officers had visited Ms Williams to apologise for "distress" caused by the stop. The force has also launched a review of its handcuffing practices, she added. Footage of the stop-and-search has been shared widely on social media. Ms Williams believes officers racially profiled her and her partner Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese international 400m runner, because they are black and were driving a Mercedes.


Mack. View member profile	9th July 2020, 06:26 PM Post #33
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	A high-tech race between American legend Allyson Felix, Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Swiss star Mujinga Kambundji headlines Thursday's innovative Inspiration Games. The meeting is being staged using seven different venues around the world and involves 28 athletes in eight events. Miller-Uibo, Felix and Kambundji are racing over 150m, running in Florida, California and Zurich respectively. Television viewers will watch them race in a synced-up three-way split-screen.


Mack. View member profile	16th July 2020, 05:37 PM Post #34
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	USA Olympic 200m finalist Deajah Stevens has been banned for the Tokyo Games in 2021 for missing anti-doping tests. The 25-year-old has been banned for 18 months from 17 February to 16 August 2021, eight days after the rearranged Tokyo Olympics are scheduled to finish. Stevens, seventh in the 2016 200m final, can appeal against the decision. The Athletics Integrity Unit handed out the ban for missed tests in February, August and November 2019. The ruling said that on the first occasion, the doping control officer could not reach the American's specified location because of restricted access at the given address in Oregon and attempts to reach her by phone were unsuccessful.


Mack. View member profile	15th August 2020, 12:51 AM Post #35
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei produced an astonishing run in Monaco to break the 16-year-old 5,000m world record by almost two seconds. The 23-year-old, who won the 10,000m world title in Doha last year, had promised he would take a shot at the time but success seemed unlikely. However, guided by trackside lights illustrating world record pace, he came home in 12 minutes 35.36 seconds. The previous mark, set by Ethiopian great Kenenisa Bekele, was 12:37.35.


Mack. View member profile	20th August 2020, 10:50 PM Post #36
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be part of an innovative long-jump competition at the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday. Instead of the event being decided by the best effort from six rounds, the top three jumpers after five rounds will then contest a one-jump final. Also in the field are Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen and world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk.


Mack. View member profile	24th August 2020, 07:47 PM Post #37
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Housemates Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir dominated their track events on a successful day for British athletes at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting. Reekie, 22, won the 800m - her fourth victory this season - in one minute 59.68 seconds and fellow Scot Muir, 27, clocked three minutes 57.87 to take the 1500m. England's Holly Bradshaw cleared 4.69m to win the pole vault. Adam Gemili was a class apart in the 200m as he won in 20.61 seconds.


Mack. View member profile	4th September 2020, 01:07 PM Post #38
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Mo Farah will aim to break a world record when he returns to the track at Friday's Diamond League meeting in Brussels. Farah will target Haile Gebrselassie's one-hour record of 21.285km (13.255 miles), set in 2007. "I believe I can do it. I want to set a world record," said Farah, who switched to road running after the Rio Olympics. The 37-year-old Briton, who has not competed since last October's Chicago Marathon, has never set a world record. The rarely run one-hour race, in which athletes try to cover as much distance as possible within 60 minutes, will take place without any fans because of coronavirus restrictions.


Mack. View member profile	5th September 2020, 12:31 AM Post #39
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	QUOTE Farah broke the one-hour world record on his return to the track at Friday's Diamond League meeting in Brussels. Farah ran 21,330m, bettering the record of 21,285m set by Haile Gebrselassie in 2007. It is the 37-year-old Briton's first world record outdoors. "It isn't supposed to be easy to break a world record, but I can tell you that it was really hard. The record stood for a very long time," said Farah. "So that says a lot. I was very excited to be back on the track. My first meet back on the track was what was driving me." In the rarely run one-hour race athletes try to cover as much distance as possible in 60 minutes.


Mack. View member profile	5th September 2020, 12:00 PM Post #40
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,714 User: 12,915	Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir has set a new world record for a women-only half marathon. The 26-year-old ran a time of one hour five minutes 34 seconds in Prague to take 37 seconds off the time set by Ethiopia's Netsanet Gudeta in 2018.