GLASGOW TREASURE CHEST: WA says it distributed a total of $2,464,000 in prize money at the World Indoor…
Shot putters aren’t exactly sharing in the wealth all-around. Tom Walsh, in winning shot silver In Glasgow, has piled up a decade-straight of medaling at the World Indoor. He says of the biggest change he has seen in that time: “The performances have gone up dramatically and the depth has gone up, but I think one thing that has definitely dropped off is sponsorship. I think the only two guys who are sponsored [by an apparel brand] in the men’s shot put are Ryan [Crouser] and Joe [Kovacs], and they both deserve it, absolutely, but the rest of the guys aren’t, and I’m included in that.”…
In the wake of Kelvin Kiptum’s death Kenyan police arrested a quartet of “strangers” who visited the marathon star 4 days before the accident…
The Commission On The State of U.S. Olympics & Paralympics, established by Congress in ’20, released a 275-page report in early March. It concluded in part that “we need a better long-term vision for how we organize Olympic- and Paralympic-movement sports in America.” The panel is calling for Congress to consider wide-ranging changes, including government funding of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, severing grassroots from the elite sports system and even removing the word “amateur” in a potential rewrite of the ’78 law that created the current setup….
Seb Coe, who has taken a strong line against Russia since its invasion of Ukraine, says that WA is trying to remain “politically neutral” when dealing with the fallout of various world conflicts. “My responsibility is to make sure our sport remains global, that where we possibly can — it is not always possible, but where we possibly can — we remain politically neutral,” says the international federation head.
Allie Wilson has signed with Nike. She’ll train with the new Heartland TC recently set up in Indianapolis by Andrew Begley. Other members include Emma Grace Hurley and Britain’s Gemma Finch…
Not long after being elected to the job, Denise Lewis has temporarily stepped down as president of UK Athletics. “I would only want to accept the role when it can have my full attention,” she explained…
Olympic and world javelin champ Neeraj Chopra is moving his training base from South Africa to Antalya in Turkey…
Concerned that illegal tweaking of the weight implement has become a problem, the NCAA issued a memorandum of “best practices” to be followed…
WA performed a media survey that showed that while female athletes have a larger social media following than men (57% to 43%), women lag in overall news coverage (46% to 54%)…
For violating the Rodchenkov Act, El Paso-based Eric Lira — who supplied performance enhancing drugs to Blessing Okagbare among others — has been sentenced to 3 months in prison, a year of supervised released and the forfeiture of $16,410…
Steve Waithe, who formerly coached at Northeastern, Penn State and Tennessee, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to a variety of fraud charges connected to a scheme in which he set up fake social media and e-mail accounts to attempt to trick women, come of whom he coached, into sending him nude pictures…
Nigeria’s Favour Ashe has been arrested for theft and fraudulent use of a debit/credit card. An NCAA 100 runner-up for Auburn, the Nigerian champion clocked a 9.96 PR last year…
The AIU has banned Yuriy Mousevich for 5 years. The former Belarusian Olympic coach breached the AIU code of conduct in withdrawing Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from the ’21 Olympics…
Kenya has built a house for the family of Kelvin Kiptum as a tribute to the late marathoner…
WA has confirmed that it will not recognize the 44.49 by Christopher Morales Williams as a WR because of the absence of false-start blocks. It also denied recognition to two potential WJRs: JaMeesia Ford’s 22.36 in the 200 at Clemson (doping control not in accordance with WA guidelines) and Melknat Wudu’s 8:32.20 for 3000 at Millrose (no drug test)…
Writer Steven Mills calls it the “Bol Effect.” In just a few hours after tickets for the ’25 European Indoor in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, went on sale, all of the tickets for the Saturday evening session were sold. That’s when the women’s 400 is scheduled, and the hope of many fans is that national hero Femke Bol will be racing…
World Athletics has suspended the testing laboratory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, for up to 6 months. That leaves the continent without an accredited facility…
The International Testing Agency has launched an initiative in coordination with USADA and WADA and other groups to combat the use of HGH before the Olympics…
Kentucky head coach Lonnie Greene guides both Devynne Charlton and Masai Russell, He said recently, “I said to them, one of you going to break the World Record, you have to decide which one is going to do that.”…
They don’t often throw the discus indoors, but they did at Berlin’s ISTAF meet. Kristjan Čeh won the men’s competition at 215-7 (65.72) and Jorinde van Klinken took the women’s at 208-4 (63.50)…
Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh admits it is hard for her to compete while her country is battling the Russian invasion. “It’s challenging for me to compete after reading the news of rockets sent to civilians. I’m thinking about how many people died, how many peoples’ houses were destroyed. It’s difficult.”…
At age 40, Melaine Walker, the ’08 Olympic 400H champ, is making a comeback. “The aim is to get to the Olympics,” says the Jamaican vet…
USATF canceled its National Youth Indoor Championships, scheduled for March 8-10 in Louisville, because of low entry numbers…
Visitors to Paris this summer will have a chance to see the 5 gold medals that Paavo Nurmi won in the 1924 Olympics. The medals will be on display at the Monnaie de Paris…
Said Ahmed, an SEC champ and All-America for Arkansas who made two OT 1500 finals, is now in a new race. At 41, he is running as a Democrat for the Massachusetts State House…
The International Fair Play Committee has joined WADA and the IOC in condemning the plans for the Enhanced Games, which will purportedly allow drug use by all competitors. “Such an event would be devoid of any fair play and sportsmanship. Moreover, they represent a potentially catastrophic healthcare risk to its participants as athletes and their collaborators will inevitably try to push beyond healthy limits.”..
CAS rejected the Russian Olympic Committee’s appeal of its suspension from the IOC; the suspension was tied to the invasion of Ukraine, and specifically to the ROC’s bringing several sports organizations from occupied Ukrainian territories under its umbrella. That violated the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee and thus the Olympic Charter…
Darrell Hill: “Believe it or not, the greatest shot putting country in the world is hosting multiple World Indoor Tour competitions, where professionals compete and earn money (kinda?), without any throwing events.”