Read more1Mireia Belmonte Receives Award For Greatest Spanish Sports Woman in the Last Half Century11 December 2017Last week, Spain's Mireia Belmonte received the award for the finest Spanish sportswoman in the last 50 years, an award that had legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal as its male recipient. The award was presented at the 50th anniversary of Diario AS, a major newspaper in Spain. Belmonte told the new...
Read moreGlobal Athlete Calls On Sponsors To Honour "Duty Of Care To Protect Athletes" As Nike Backs Banned Salazar02 October 2019Global Athlete Calls Out Sponsors The Global Athlete Start-Up Group has called on sponsors "to develop a meaningful athlete-first approach that demands sports change the outdated 'athletes last' mentality", "to start caring more about athletes’ rights and wellbeing" and honour their "duty of care to...
Read more6Should Doping Bans Be Extended To Tokyo 2021 For Those Who Would Have Missed 2020 Olympics?13 April 2020Athletes have voiced their opposition to those serving doping suspensions and excluded from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July this year being eligible for a Games delayed until July next year due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As the call for suspensions during the health crisis to be ex...
Read moreLord Coe Calls On IOC To Postpone Olympics "Very Quickly" & Rule Out Any 2020 Date23 March 2020Sebastian Coe, the Olympic track champion of the 1980s, head of World Athletics and Britain's most senior Olympic figure, has called on the International Olympic Committee to announce a postponement decision on Tokyo 2020 Games "very quickly" while assuring athletes that the big event will not take ...
Read moreMel Marshall Urges Sport To Continue Standing Strong Against Drug Cheats14 April 2020Mel Marshall wants sport to stand firm in the face of drug cheats and explore every avenue to protect those who play by fair means and send a strong message to those who don’t. A consequence of the postponement of Tokyo 2020 until July 2021 will be that several athletes who would have missed the Oly...
Read more6IOC President: Lifetime Doping Bans "Not Possible"24 August 2015The spate of recent doping allegations in track and field is bringing up new calls for athletes in all sports to be given lifetime bans for any doping violations, a punishment that International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach supports but admits is not feasible. “This is legally just not po...