Athletics


Ennis voted Sportswoman of the Year by journalists

December 9 - Jessica Ennis (pictured) was today voted the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) Sportswoman of the Year, reward for her outstanding performance at the World Championships in Berlin in August when she won the gold medal in the heptathlon just a year after serious injury forced her to miss the Olympics in Beijing.


We have stablised ASA, claims Mali

December 8 - Athletics South Africa (ASA) is stable after its board was suspended and replaced with an interim leadership body in the fall-out from the Caster Semenya (pictured) scandal, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) claimed today.














IAAF to take Russian drug cases to CAS

By Duncan Mackay 

Tatyana TomashovaNovember 27 - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said today it had lodged an appeal seeking harsher doping bans on seven Russian female athletes, including two-times world 1500 metres champion Tatyana Tomashova (pictured), at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.