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Here's A Relay Race Handoff Gone Horribly WrongHere’s the rare bungling at this year’s IAAF World Championships in Doha that was not the fault of the event’s corrupt, rapacious organizers. While the Jamaican team sped to victory in last weekend’s women’s 4x100 relay final, the final two runners on the Chinese team seemed to forget how their even...

Nobody Thought Through These Invasive Starting Block Cameras At The IAAF World ChampionshipsLots of things have not gone well at the IAAF’s World Athletics Championships in Doha. Everyone competing is either spooked by the ghostly silence of almost no spectators in attendance or half-dead of heat exhaustion. Here is one more thing not going well: a bunch of athletes have been criticizing t...

Over 40 Percent Of Competitors Withdraw From World Championship Marathon Run In Sweltering Qatari HeatOf the 68 competitors that started the women’s marathon at the World Athletics Championships, 28 ended up withdrawing by the end, with at least one runner getting taken away in an ambulance while another was spotted in a wheelchair. The high dropout rate came as a result of terrible weather conditio...

Report: Elite Runners Will No Longer Be Called “Losers”

Buck up, elite runners! You are no longer in any danger of being called a loser—in an official capacity, at least....

Caster Semenya Won't Be Allowed To Defend Her 800-Meter Title At The World Championships

South African runner Caster Semenya won’t be allowed to compete in her primary event, the 800 meters, two months from now at the 2019 World Championships, because a Swiss court has reversed the June ruling that temporarily suspended the IAAF’s discriminatory hormone policy....

Caster Semenya Appeals To Swiss Supreme Court To Stop IAAF's Discrimination Against Her

South African runner Caster Semenya is officially appealing the discriminatory regulations put in place to stop her from competing in her best event, the 800 meters. ...

PSG President Charged For Alleged Bribery Over World Championships In Athletics Bid

If there’s one realm of sports more openly corrupt than soccer, it is international athletics competition. Further proof of this well-known fact comes from France, where reports today say Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has been charged with “active corruption” for allegedly bribing...

Caster Semenya Wins Final 800-Meter Race Before The IAAF Can Start Discriminating Against Her

For the 30th straight time on the track, Caster Semenya won an 800-meter race. The South African runner led from the gun at today’s Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar, winning by 2.77 seconds with a 1:54.98 result, the fourth-fastest time of her career....