Sports Call – Close to 200 athletes will represent New Zealand at the Rio Olympics shortly and a lucky few will reach that achievement before they even make their twenties. At one end of the spectrum, one of New Zealand’s oldest and most accomplished Olympians – Sir Mark Todd –…
Cheboksary (Russia) (AFP) – Pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva defiantly claimed all hope of competing at the Rio Olympics is not lost after posting a world leading mark in the Russian Championships on Tuesday. Russian track and field athletes are banned from the Games in August unless they can prove…
Data from IAAF.org Rank Mark Competitor DOB Nat Pos Venue Date 1 4.86 Ekateríni Stefanídi 4 FEB 1990 GRE 1 Athína (Filothéi) 08 JUN 2016 2 4.84 Yarisley Silva 1 JUN 1987 CUB 1 Birmingham (Alexander), GBR 05 JUN 2016 3 4.83 Sandi Morris 8 JUL 1992 USA 1 Doha…
Data from IAAF.org Rank Mark Competitor DOB Nat Pos Venue Date 1 5.92 Sam Kendricks 7 SEP 1992 USA 1 Beijing (National Stadium) 18 MAY 2016 2 5.91 Shawnacy Barber 27 MAY 1994 CAN 1 Elite Austin (Myers Stadium), TX 02 APR 2016 3 5.83 Renaud Lavillenie 18 SEP 1986…
Exclusive: Mayor of Rio de Janeiro says he felt “at war” in London, security in Rio will be massive but less oppressive Rio de Janeiro will be swarming with soldiers and military police through the Olympic Games in part because of terror threats being imported by participating nations like…
Zika virus outbreak in Brazil causes athletes to withdraw from Summer Games Thousands of training hours. Multiple sacrifices. Maintaining a strict diet. For much of the past four years, athletes from across the world have thrown themselves into the sport they love in hopes of realizing their Olympic dream in…
Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant “super bacteria” off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete when the Games start on Aug. 5. The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio’s most…
EUGENE, Ore. – TrackTown USA is pleased to announce that single-day tickets for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field at historic Hayward Field will go on sale to the public at 9 a.m. Pacific time on April 15. If you want a good seat to one…
There could be quite a few empty seats at the Olympic Games in Rio this summer. With just half of tickets sold and only four months before kickoff, Brazil’s new minister of sports, Richardo Leyser, is looking into ways to boost ticket sales. He told Brazilian newspaper Folha that the…
Athletics superpower Russia is running out of time to eradicate doping and may not be able to send a track and field team to this year’s Rio Olympics, Dick Pound, chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent commission, said on Wednesday. “There seems to be some evidence that they’re…
