Latest Track and field News

Olympic refugee team runner Dominic Lokolong Atiol tests positive for doping ahead of Paris Games

Mar. 20, 2024 10:49 AM EDT

MONACO (AP) — A second runner on the Olympic refugee team has been implicated in doping while preparing for the Paris Games. Dominic Lokolong Atiol has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for trimetazidine, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said...

Boston Marathon field adds Americans who just missed at Olympic trials

Mar. 14, 2024 14:42 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Some of the top also-rans from the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials are coming to Boston. Elkanah Kibet, who missed the men’s podium by 5 seconds in a personal best 2 hours, 10 minutes, 2 seconds, will run on April 15 in Boston, where he already has two top 10 finishes....

Stricter drug testing before Paris Olympics ordered for track and field athletes from 4 countries

Mar. 11, 2024 12:50 PM EDT

MONACO (AP) — Track and field athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will be tested more often ahead of the Paris Olympics because of sub-standard anti-doping programs at home, the sport’s investigators said Monday. Each country failed to heed warnings after the 2022...

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

Mar. 11, 2024 07:15 AM EDT

Quad-Cities Times. March 10, 2024. Editorial: Caitlin Clark a remarkable, transformational athlete Breaking long-held records and barriers and scaling obstacles to open doors to new possibilities, both Caitlin Clark and Solomon Butler changed the world around them. ...

Olympic champion Michael Johnson looks to form a new track league

Feb. 28, 2024 16:29 PM EST

Olympic champion Michael Johnson is starting a new track league he hopes will help athletes earn more exposure and money in a sport that struggles for attention in between Olympic cycles. He said he is teaming up with the Winners Alliance, a group best known as a for-profit arm of...

Coach who tried to force Belarus sprinter home from Tokyo Olympics is banned for 5 years

Feb. 27, 2024 14:11 PM EST

GENEVA (AP) — An Olympic track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years on Tuesday. Yury Moisevich's actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be “a clear affront to the...

NCAA infractions committee could discipline administrators tied to violations and ID them publicly

Feb. 23, 2024 17:53 PM EST

The NCAA Committee on Infractions has outlined potential penalties for rules violators in leadership positions beyond the coaching staff, up to and including school presidents in a move prompted by new legislation emphasizing individual accountability. Individuals who were active or...

Kenya mourns as marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum is given a state funeral

Feb. 23, 2024 12:51 PM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum was given a state funeral Friday following his death in a car crash earlier this month, as many Kenyans urged the government to do more to protect the country’s famous athletes. Hundreds of dignitaries —...

Anti-doping law nets first prison sentence for therapist who helped sprinters get drugs

Feb. 22, 2024 14:34 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through performance-enhancing drugs received a three-month prison sentence. Federal prosecutors used the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act to charge Eric Lira,...

Femke Bol improves her 400-meter indoor world record at Netherlands championships

Feb. 18, 2024 13:41 PM EST

APELDOORN, Netherlands (AP) — Femke Bol broke her 400-meter indoor world record on Sunday at the Netherlands' national championships, finishing in 49.24 seconds to shave two-hundredths of a second off the record she set a year ago. Bol, the 400-meter hurdles world champion, set the...