Ten Olympic medallists from Rio 2016 and 17 World Championship medallists from Doha 2019 will star at the Wanda Doha Diamond League on Friday 25 …
Continue ReadingYalemzerf and Haylemariam win Ethiopia’s trial race for Gdynia
Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Hailemaryam Kiros were victorious over 15km in Addis Ababa on Wednesday (23) in a race that Ethiopian Athletics will use as a …
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Starting off as a professional basketball player, not many thought Lidya Tafesse Abebe would trade the rims and bounces for the whistle, and not in …
Continue ReadingLamine Diack Sentenced to Prison for Corruption
LAUSANNE, September 16, 2020 – Lamine Diack, the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) – now World Athletics – has been …
Continue ReadingRemembering Abebe Bikila’s, Heroic Barefoot Marathon Olympic Victory
He would go on to be considered as one of the greatest marathon runners of all time, but it was only through a stroke of …
Continue ReadingNairobi Kip Keino Classic, Africa’s First Major Athletics Event Since The Pandemic
Nairobi is preparing to host the first World Athletics Continental Tour Meeting on African soil. The anticipation over the tour is high, partly because it …
Continue ReadingGenzebe Dibaba & Selemon Barega to Run in Ostrava
Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon will lead Kenya’s onslaught at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting that will be held on Tuesday (8) in …
Continue ReadingEthiopia to Host the 2020 CAF Annual Congress
ADDIS ABABA, September 7, 2020 – Ethiopia has been selected to host the 2020 Confederation of African Football (CAF) annual congress scheduled for early December. …
Continue ReadingEFF Proposes Competition Guidelines Ahead of New Season Amid COVID-19
Ethiopia football fans Photo by Getty Images ADDIS ABABA, September 6, 2020 – The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) and club representatives recently had a discussion …
Continue ReadingHassan and Farah break One-Hour World Records in Brussels
Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting at the …
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