Brigita Langerholc

Monaco, May 8: Track and field's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has said that athletes and officials involved in illegal betting at the Olympic Games and other events will face bans of up to four years. - Indiatalkies.comRead Full Story

Track and field's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has said that athletes and officials involved in illegal betting at the Olympic Games and other events will face bans of up to four years.Read Full Story

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The IAAF plans to cut more than $20 million in expenses the next three years, including $4 million in 2010, to weather the global financial crisis, a senior athletics source said Friday.Cuts would come from all areas of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) with the organization also hoping to benefit from an improved exchange rate between the dollar and the euro.The IAAF's executive board heard the proposals at a meeting in Monaco...Read Full Story

Despite calls for change by swimming's governing body, international sports bodies agreed Tuesday to maintain the revenue-sharing formula that will provide track and field with the biggest share of television money from the 2012 London Olympics.The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, which represents the 26 sports on the London program, rejected a call Tuesday by swimming body FINA to change the criteria for distributing the projected $375 million in TV revenues.Under the...Read Full Story

DUBAI (Reuters) - The 28 Summer Olympic sports federations, feeling the squeeze from the global economic downturn, decided on Tuesday to review the way broadcast revenue from the Games are distributed.Federations taking part in London 2012 will share around $375 million from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) TV deals.Athletics will get the biggest share with $35 million. Soccer, swimming, basketball, cycling, gymnastics, tennis and volleyball, ranked in group two, can expect about...Read Full Story

SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The workload will be a little lighter when Usain Bolt goes for double gold at this year's world championships and the 2012 London Olympics.The Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion, like most other sprinters, will need to run only six races instead of the traditional eight he faced for a Beijing sprint double.A streamlined scheduled announced Tuesday for the London Games and already approved for the Daegu world championships shaves two races from most...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Olympic hammer throw champion Harold Connolly has died at age 79, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Thursday.A four-time Olympian, Connolly won the gold at the 1956 Melbourne Games and set six world records in the event between 1956 and 1965, according to the IAAF.Connolly gained further world attention when he met Olga Fikatova, the Olympic women's discus champion from Czechoslovakia, at the 1956 Games and a romance...Read Full Story

The Government have been issuing instructions regarding improvement of standards of sports and games in the country since the year 1975, 1988, 1997 and 2001 with provision on tenure cap of the office bearers/administrators of National Sports Federations but the same was kept in abeyance since 2001 due to strong opposition from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and National Sports Federations (NSFs). In 2010, the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi in its order on a civil writ petition observed...Read Full Story

A day after the sports ministry came out with a revised sports bill, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Tuesday rejected the measure, saying the government is trying to strangulate the autonomy of the sports federations and hijack the Olympic movement in India."This is a more draconian bill, which if passed will shackle the IOA and National Sports Federations (NSFs) and will hit at the very root of the autonomy of the Olympic Charter. We will never be a party to it" IOA acting president...Read Full Story

New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) The General Association of National Sports Federations (GANSF) Monday stated that it has no quarrel with the sports ministry over transparency and good governance and is only opposed to the clauses on age and tenure in the draft National Sports Development Bill. At their meeting with the sports ministry-constituted four-member committee, headed by retired justice Mukul Mudgal, some 40 NSFs were unanimous in strongly opposing the age and tenure clauses stipulating...Read Full Story