American sprinter Erriyon Knighton has been handed a four-year ban, ruling the 21-year-old out of the 2028 Los Angeles Games, Afrosport reports. The two-time Olympic finalist tested positive for the anabolic steroid – trenbolone – in March 2024, a banned substance used for muscle growth. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on Friday that its panel upheld appeals from both the World Anti-Doping Agency...
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo has not put a foot wrong since winning a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics as the Motswana won the men's 200m race at the Silesia Diamond League in Poland on Sunday. The 21-year-old sprinter ran a blistering time of 19.83 seconds to set a new meeting record in Silesia despite having to recover from a poor start to the race. Tebogo...
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, Joseph Fahnbulleh of Liberia, and the Zimbabwean duo of Tapiwanashe Makarawu and Makanakaishe Charamba will all represent Africa in the men’s 200-metre final in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Tebogo ran a time of 19.96 seconds to win semifinal 2 in the men’s 200m on Wednesday, beating reigning men’s 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles of the United States, who clocked a time of 20.08s...
Nigeria superstar and women's 100m hurdle champion, Tobi Amusan loses the quest to become the Female Athlete of the Year for 2022. American hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone defeated Amusan for the female prize while Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis claimed the men's award. McLaughlin-Levrone and Duplantis, both won the Rising Stars awards just four years ago, and they broke world records multiple times in their respective events...
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