SI.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) -- Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
World and Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele were among five contenders shortlisted for the male Athlete of the Year award.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Monte Carlo - Three-time sprint world champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica heads a shortlist of five men vying for the World Athlete of the Year award from the ruling body IAAF. Bolt, winner of the prestigious award last year, lowered his own world records...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Shocka! Houtkop had his facts wrong. Does he ever have them right? According to him "FACT" is not a Sepedi word either so it doesn't exist. Amazingly the media tart "could not be reached for comment" either. It does appear though that the ANC has had enough of him if the big gun - Mathews Phosa - has been called in to sort out his mess(es). *** ANC Youth League President Julius...
Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Dramatic update to the case of South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya. The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee has suspended Athletics South Africa President Leonard Chuene, the entire board and other ASA employees "for their handling of...
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By Kim Saulse 07 November 2009 The Department of Sport and Recreation has applauded the South African Olympic governing body Sascoc for its action against Athletics South Africa. This happened after Sascoc suspended the national athletics federation yesterday afternoon. The Sport Ministry’s statement adds that ASA has to allow the process of the law to be completed. ASA’s president Leonard...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
South Africa's Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya's gender tests.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
South Africa’s Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya’s gender tests.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
South Africa's Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya's gender tests.
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
South African gold medalist Caster Semenya is the subject of racist attack on her gender identity. The people of South Africa have expressed outrage over these accusations which surfaced in Berlin during August 2009. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Let us celebrate our world champions Support for Caster Semenya Courtesy of ANC Today November 6, 2009 The ANC NEC of 17-19 September...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Athletics South Africa was suspended by the country's powerful national Olympic committee over its controversial handling of the Caster Semenya gender row.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
People have been getting faster and faster over the last few decades. Usain Bolt shattered both the 100m and 200m world records at the World Championships in Berlin, knocking tenths of a second off each. Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie's world marathon (42km) record of two hours, three minutes and 59 seconds is nearly 23 per cent faster than it was in the 1920 marathon.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Athletics South Africa (ASA) was suspended by the country's powerful national Olympic committee on Friday over its controversial handling of the Caster Semenya gender row. "The suspension is based on the fact that ASA, through its officials and office bearers, has engaged in acts of misconduct and misdemeanours in relation to the Caster Semenya affair," the Sports Confederation and Olympic...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mebrahtom Keflezighi was the first American in 27 years to win the New York City Marathon. Cameron Stracher , the publisher of the New York Law School Law Review and author of a forthcoming book about the American running boom in the 1970's and 1980's, discusses why he thinks American running was on the decline and what Keflezighi's win means for the future of the sport in the United States - and what...
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krishpatel1212@gmail | 09/12/2009
Is Caster Semenya Female OR Male, OR Somewhere in Between ? Semenya blew away the competition at last month’s IAAF World Track & Field Championships in Berlin. But the runner's stunning times, coupled with her muscular build and deep voice, led many to question whether she was, in fact, a woman. The International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body of international track and field,
jonson87 | 09/11/2009
The IAAF has received the results of gender tests on Caster Semenya, winner of the women's 800 meter world title last month, and will meet with the South African runner before completing its report. details here
sonupt5@gmail.com | 09/11/2009
World champion Caster Semenya ‘Hermaphrodite’ test results It has just been revealed that test results have shown that World 800m Champion Caster Semenya is a ‘Hermaphrodite’. It is just the latest twist in the ongoing gender row, which surfaced after the 18 year old’s success in Berlin.As reported from SkyNews, the test results have shown Semenya to have both male and female sex organs, and no womb
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