Rashid Ramzi News

The IOC decided Thursday not to reallocate the gold medal that admitted drug-cheat Marion Jones won in the 100 meter sprint at the 2000 Olympics.

Bern, Dec 9 The Executive Committee of the Internacional Olympic Committee will hold its last meeting of 2009 starting today through Thursday in the Swiss city of Lausanne, confirmed the sports entity.

Taylor Phinney is getting some last-minute help in the quest to keep his specialty event on the Olympic cycling program.

Sports authorities are gaining the upper hand in the fight against "the corrosive evil" of doping, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Wednesday.

Would you believe, college hoops at 6 a.m.? Dwight Perry The Seattle Times Anyone up for toast and jam? ESPN's round-the-clock broadcast of college basketball last week included a Monmouth-Saint Peter's game at 6 a.m. Eastern time.

Five months after lifting the Stanley Cup, Sidney Crosby carried the Olympic torch as thousands of people lined a downtown street.

Gouverneur High School graduate Noreen Chamberlain Wagner will be inducted into the LaFayette College Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday.

College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths - in the classroom.

France qualified for its fourth consecutive World Cup when officials missed an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry that led to William Gallas' overtime goal in a 1-1 tie against Ireland.

Detroit fans may be denied yet another chance to watch the Lions on television. Team spokesman Bill Keenist says that as of Wednesday afternoon, more than 7,000 tickets remained available for Sunday's game against Cleveland at Ford Field.

Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his Olympic 1500 metres gold medal for doping, the secretary-general of Bahrain's Olympic Committee said.

Copenhagen- The re-allocation of some of Marion Jones' medals from the Sydney 2000 Olympics could start before the end of the year, a senior International Olympic Committee member said on Thursday.

Newly-crowned world 1500m champion Yusuf Saad Kamel of Bahrain moved closer to repeating his father Billy Konchellah's feat of winning the world 800m crown when he qualified for the final here on Friday.

Canada's Nathan Brannen, seen in this file photo, failed to advance to the 1,500-metre final at the world championships on Monday.

The middle-distance runners take centre stage at the world championships today. Gold medals will be on the line in the men's 1 500 metres and the women's 800 metres on the fifth day of competition in Berlin's Olympic Stadium.

By Tom Knight Doping continues to stalk athletics, and despite every effort to outlaw the drug cheats there is no guarantee that the 12th World Championships, which start on Saturday in Berlin, will be clean.

Full disclosure has not always been Bernard Lagat 's specialty. In 2004, he declined to reveal that he had become a United States citizen in order to preserve his ability to run in the 2004 Olympics for Kenya.

Alan Webb Is Moving to Portland to Work With Alberto Salazar An official announcement should come later today, but the "Washington Times" has already broken the story.

BERLIN: Liu Xiang and Rashid Ramzi top a host of headline stars who will miss out on the World Athletics Championships that start here on Saturday.

Asbel Kiprop could board the plane back home from Berlin with three medals: The 2008 Beijing Olympic 1,500 metres gold and World Championships in Athletics medals in the 800m and 1,500m races.