Per Radio France International, a French court accepted a request from Diack’s legal team to lift a ban on the 87-year-old leaving the country in December.
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The same rule could also apply in the case of Blessing Okagbare
The International Association of Athletics Federations on Tuesday upheld a ban against Russia’s Athletics Federation over doping in the country.
Former Technical Director of Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Omatseye Nesiama, has become a Technical Official Level One Lecturer in the International Association of Athletics Federations, thus becoming the third Nigerian to attain that status.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the competition is scheduled to hold from September 8 to September 9 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Russia will remain banned from world athletics until December at the earliest, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced.
Following an International Association of Athletics Federations council meeting, national federations will be divided into three categories with differing obligations based on their level of success and the perceived risk of doping.
The Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, gave the assurance to Nigerians on Wednesday in Benin when he hosted members of the Local Organising Committee, IAAF delegate and media partners of the event.
Partnering with sports ministries, city governments, race organisers and member-federations around the world, the IAAF initiative incorporates races to be held in cities across 15 time zones.
Nesiama made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, after attending the IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, Spain.
IAAF said in a statement: “The IAAF is pleased to confirm a list of 10 men and 10 women nominees who were selected by an international panel of athletics experts, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of the IAAF.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and sprint hurdler, Tobiloba Amusan, lead a team of 12 athletes to compete at the IAAF World Championships from August 4 to 13
Two of the records were set by Kenya’s Mary Keitany in London on April 23, while the third one was by Sweden’s Armand Duplantis in February, in the world under-20 indoors
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okagbare is a World Championships silver medallist and is ranked 18th in the world in 200m
The competition held from April 22 to April 23 at Nassau, Bahamas
The competition is scheduled to hold from March 24 to 26
This was made known in a statement after the 208th IAAF Council Meeting held at the Riviera Marriott Hotel, Cap d’Ail, France
Nick Davies, who was chief-of-staff to the IAAF President, Seb Coe, was initially suspended along with his wife, Jane Boulter-Davies, and the IAAF medical manager, Pierre-Yves Garnier, in June
The President of CAA, Hamad Kalkaba, on Saturday in Lagos said the body would support the building a High Altitude Performance Centre in the northern part of the country
The International Association of Athletics Federations President, Lamine Diack, and the Secretary General, Essar Gabriel, will leave the international federation…