Athletics: Making sure fate is sealed
Valerie Adams fears her drinks or food could be spiked with banned drugs when she heads to Moscow next month for the track and field world championships.
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Athletics: Rising star pins qualifying hope on Swiss meeting
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Some returned with silver, some returned with bronze. Some returned on top of the world with discs of gold and memories of vanquished rivals. Some came home with dreams of greater glory next time.
Athletics: Adams wants inquiry into rival's win
Two-time Olympic shot-put champion Valerie Adams wants officials to look into Nadzeya Ostapchuk's win at the 2010 world indoor championships after it emerged yesterday Ostapchuk is facing a life ban for two failed drugs tests.
Kiwi athlete dies in Tahiti
A New Zealand athlete who collapsed after winning a race in Tahiti this week has died in hospital.
Life ban awaits Ostapchuk
Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Valerie Adams' great shot put rival, is expected to be slapped with a life ban by the IAAF for failing two drugs tests.
Kiwi athlete in critical condition
New Zealand athlete Lesley Cantwell remains in a critical condition in hospital in the Tahitian capital after collapsing following a 5000m walking race.
Pistorius judge cries 'trial by media'
Oscar Pistorius' court hearing was adjourned until August 19 after a brief appearance last night in which the magistrate railed against media coverage of his case.
Val Adams keeps streak alive
Valerie Adams has continued her long winning streak with a victory at the Diamond League meeting in Oregon today - but her lead was only 3cm
Row erupts over schoolboy rugby star
A row has erupted between an athletic coach and a top school over a star athlete who was allowed to play in a rugby match only weeks before a world athletic championship.
Turkish champions face doping charges
Olympic 1500m track champion Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey has been charged with doping and could be stripped of her gold medal.