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Mega sports events are coming back to Western countries - temporarily

15 November 2011

This weekend signalled a temporary halt in the growing trend to move the world's largest sports events away from Western countries when London beat Doha to host the World Athletics Championships in 2017, and the Gold Coast in...[more]




IOC investigates the president of international athletics for corruption

09 November 2011

Bribes from the former ISL marketing company did not only go to FIFA officials. At the moment, the IOC is investigating whether the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Lamine Diack, also...[more]


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The major medical blunder of the twentieth century

09 July 2008

As one of the consequences of the Cold War from the end of World War II and up to 1989, the competition on the battlefield of sport became fiercer and fiercer, and at some point rumours started circulating in the west about...[more]