No Olympics for amputee sprinter
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  -- The IAAF ruled Monday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetic racing legs give him a clear competitive advantage.
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Double amputee Oscar Pistoriusâ much-anticipated debut against elite able-bodied competition fizzled Sunday when he was disqualified for running out of his lane.
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US gymnast Paul Hamm can keep his gold medal from the all-around event at the Athens Olympics after the highest review panel in international sports rejected a protest from a South Korean competitor.
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Michelle Collins, who won the world athletics indoor 200 metres for the United States last year, was yesterday suspended for eight years despite the fact that she has never tested positive or admitted doping violations.
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South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday against his ban from running at this year's Beijing Olympics with artificial limbs.
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A Greek athlete has failed a dope test at the Olympics, said a spokesman for the country Olympic team.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- FINA, the swimming&#39;s world governing body, has rejected protest from national federations of Britain and Austria over American Aaron Peirsol&#39;s reinstatement after he was disqualified in the 200m backstroke final at the ...
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Athletics&#39; world governing body on Wednesday temporarily suspended Greek sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou pending a full hearing of their doping cases.
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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced here Friday afternoon that the Paralympic Games gold medal retrieved from an anti-doping violatorjudoka from Cuba would not be re-distributed.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The IAAF ruled Monday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetic racing legs give him a clear competitive advantage.
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Track and fieldâs world governing body ruled that a double-amputee sprinterâs state-of-the-art prosthetics give him an unfair advantage.
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Greek pride was dealt another blow on  Friday when one of their athletes failed a drugs test at the  Olympics just 48 hours after its two top sprinters pulled out  of the Games in a doping scandal.
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GREEK sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were today provisionally suspended by the world governing athletics body for missing three doping tests before the Athens Olympics.
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Competition leader Danilo Di Luca was excluded from the ProTour series by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday, after the Giro d'Italia winner received a three-month doping ban earlier this week.
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Olympic champion Mizuki Noguchi has withdrawn from next month's London Marathon after having her training disrupted by an Achilles tendon injury, organisers announced on Thursday.
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Track and fieldâs governing body ruled that a sprinterâs prosthetic legs gave him an unfair advantage.
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Christine Ohuruogu, a British runner who had been tipped to be one of the faces of the 2012 London Olympics, has been banned from competition for a year after missing three out-of-competition drug tests, UK Athletics announced on Friday.