[picappgallerysingle id="6612343"]Controversial American sprinter Justin Gatlin will not be allowed to make an early return to competitive competition, the International Association of Athletics Federations said on Monday. Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100metres champion was given an eight-year ban, reduced to four on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after he tested positive for elevated... 

Usain Bolt may have been the person to save track and field in the face of a number of doping scandals, as well as to highlight the merits of the junior school system. That’s according to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president, Lamine Diack. “I think it was the thing that was needed in our sport to see one athlete like him (Bolt) coming from the school system,”... 

By Gary Smith, World-Track World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt (L) with Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United world legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Usain Bolt’s glittering record breaking performances at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, in August, is definitely one of the sporting highlights of the year. The Jamaican smashed... 

A civil rights organisation has laid a charge at the world’s governing body of athletics against the president of Athletics South Africa (ASA) for inciting racial polarisation over athlete Caster Semenya. Afriforum chief executive Kallie Kriel said he had laid a charge against Leonard Chuene at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). "Chuene’s polarising statements,...