Three minors, two from athletics and one from weightlifting, were among a slew of dope offenders across sports who were handed three-year bans by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) instead of four after they accepted their guilt within 20 days of being charged. The two minor track and field athletes had tested positive for mephentermine,…
American Brittany Brown surprised herself with the sprint double at New York’s Athlos meet on Friday, as Briton Keely Hodgkinson won the 800 metres to end her injury-dented season on a high. Brown exploded at the halfway mark and hung on through the final metres to win the shorter sprint in 10.99 seconds, beating compatriot…
Sprinter Dhanalakshmi Sekar had tested positive a second time for the steroid drostanolone. Her sample in question was collected at the Indian Open athletics meet at Sangrur, Punjab, on July 27. These details have now been confirmed after Sportstar first reported the dope positive story on September 29. The Tamil Nadu athlete has been provisionally…
With the Indian tricolour wrapped around his shoulder, Subedar Soman Rana beamed as he soaked in the moment at the JLN stadium. On Saturday, he finally won the medal he had long been yearning for. With a Season’s Best throw of 14.69m, Rana won silver in the F57 category (for athletes who compete from a seated position due…
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday that Kenya had made “significant and demonstrable progress” toward cleaning up its systems, delaying a threatened non-compliance order. The Montreal-based WADA said last month that the Kenyan branch was not meeting its standards and gave it until Friday to address concerns. Kenya’s President William Ruto said on…
Indian food delivery company Zomato, sponsor of the ongoing World Para Athletics Championships, recently shared a video on its Instagram handle as part of a promotional event. It featured some of the country’s top contenders at the marquee competition, particularly of those who won medals at the Paris Paralympics last year. One athlete who didn’t…
When he walked into the mixed zone at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Tuesday night, Sumit Antil hardly looked like someone who had just smashed a Championship Record (CR) to win a third straight World Championship gold. Competing in the T64 category of the men’s javelin throw competition at the Para Athletics World Championships,…
Tamil Nadu sprinter S. Dhanalakshmi, who returned to action this season after serving a three-year suspension for doping, has tested positive for a second time, according to reliable sources. After her comeback, the 27-year-old, who had tested positive for metandienone (an anabolic androgenic steroid) on the first occasion, recorded her personal best of 11.36 to…
Rinku Hooda didn’t like his final throw of the evening. His throw was well over the white arc that marked the 60m distance, but he didn’t want the mark—whatever it was—to sully his record for the day and stepped over the foul line. He could afford to be choosy. Just a few minutes earlier, with his very first throw…
Noah Lyles says he is not sure to run in next year’s inaugural Ultimate Championship, in a potentially huge blow to World Athletics’ new event that is supposed to showcase the best of the best over three days in Budapest. Fresh from securing his fourth successive world 200 metres title, the 28-year-old Lyles said a…