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Lead Stories: Friday, November 21, 2008

Track & Field: Weekly Preview

Posted January 26th, 2008 at 10:30 AM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

With three major international invitationals set for this weekend –Saturday’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games, Saturday’s Norwich Union International in Glasgow, and the Russian Winter meet in Moscow on Sunday– TPR begins its peak-season weekly previews. Some of the expected key highlights:

In the Sprints…

Thus far in 2008 the major news in the sprints has been off the track, beginning with the New Year’s Day announcement by the US Anti-Doping Agency that Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin would have to sit out a four-year ban. (How’s that for setting the tone for the year?) Gatlin is appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. [For a recent interview Gatlin gave Reuters, please click here]

The most solid field of the weekend will be in Boston, where reigning world indoor champion Leonard Scott makes his ‘08 debut. Reigning US indoor champion DaBryan Blanton, and Leroy Dixon [Pictured], a 400m relay gold medallist last summer in Osaka, are also in the field.
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Moscow To Host ‘08
European Indoor Cup

Posted November 17th, 2007 at 11:33 AM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

The Russian capital city of Moscow has been awarded the right to host the 4th edition of the European Athletics Indoor Cup, which will be held on Saturday February 16, 2008.

It will be the first time Moscow has hosted a major athletics event since the successful IAAF World Indoor Championships took place in 2006, and will take place in the 5,000 seat CSKA Arena, which hosts the successful IAAF Indoor Meeting “Russian Winter” every January.

Eight teams will take part in each of the men’s and women’s competitions and will be led by the French men and the Russian women, who are the defending European Cup champions both indoors and outdoors.
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Moscow to host international coaching conference

Posted September 20th, 2007 at 2:38 AM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results

More than 200 coaches are expected to take part in an international coaching conference entitled The Winning Difference: Focus - Beijing Preparation, which will take place in Moscow from the 2nd to 4th November.

The conference will be jointly organised by the All Russian Athletic Federation and the European Athletics Coaches Association (EACA) and will include the EACA’s General Meeting and elections.

Confirmed conference speakers include Edwin Ozolin (RUS), Scott Drawer (GBR), Ekkart Arbeit (GER) and EACA President Frank Dick (GBR).

For more information, please visit: European-Athletics.org

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Daegu, Moscow to host 2011, 2013 IAAF World Champs

Posted March 27th, 2007 at 12:22 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results

Daegu, South Korea, and Moscow were selected to host the 2011 and 2013 editions of the World Athletics Championships, the IAAF announced on the final day of the IAAF Council Meeting in Mombasa, Kenya.

The bids by South Korea’s third largest city and the Russian capital beat back the bids presented by Brisbane, Australia, and Barcelona, Spain.

Kim Bum-Il, the Mayor of Daegu who served as the Marketing Director for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, said the biggest challenge facing his city will also be their primary goal, which is to create “a new athletics culture in the emerging countries.”
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