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BBC Sport - UK Athletics chief promises records if London wins 2017 bid. 6 November 2011 Last updated at 13:18 GMT UK Athletics boss Ed Warner has promised record-breaking conditions and big crowds if London hosts the 2017 World Athletics Championships. London goes head-to-head with Qatari capital Doha on Friday in an International Association of Athletics Federations vote in Monaco. Warner said: "We are putting in place conditions which will be ideal for athletes to break records in London. "The Olympic Stadium is going to be full - morning and evening sessions. " Warner believes London has an overwhelming case to win the bid. . • 1983 Helsinki • 1987 Rome • 1991 Tokyo • 1993 Stuttgart • 1995 Gothenburg • 1997 Athens • 1999 Seville • 2001 Edmonton • 2003 Paris • 2005 Helsinki • 2007 Osaka • 2009 Berlin • 2011 Daegu "There will be fans from nations all around the world. "We have got a very strong commercial bid.
"It's absolutely critical for the health of global athletics that we nurture the audience in the core western European market. " London 2012 Olympics: World Athletics Championship bid given boost with news of athletics' 99-year lease in the stadium. Prime Minister David Cameron backs London's bid to host 2017 World Athletics Championships. London 2017 World Championships bid team to use Jodie Williams and Denise Lewis to beat Doha. BBC Sport - London beats Doha to stage 2017 World Athletics Championships. 11 November 2011 Last updated at 16:40 GMT The World Athletics Championships will be held in the United Kingdom for the first time after London was selected ahead of Doha to host the 2017 event.
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack said London won the vote 16-10. The English capital, which failed with bids to host the 2001 and 2015 Worlds, will use the 2012 Olympic Stadium. Bid leader Sebastian Coe said: "This bid has been developed by athletes and athletics, for athletes and athletics. " The Olympic Stadium (capacity 60,000) has been built and the running track is part of its 99-year lease The proposed date of late July or early August avoids clashes with European and American football The stadium is likely to be sold out for every session London's cultural diversity "This is the natural continuation of the work being done on 2012. " Warner said: "I'm not a veteran of bids but people tell me always keep a late reveal. Play media. UK Athletics loses key sponsor in run-up to World Championships. BBC wins back rights to broadcast World Athletics Championships | Media.
The BBC has won back the rights to the World Athletics Championships in 2015 and 2017, when the event will take place in London. The event was broadcast on Channel 4 for the first time earlier this year from Daegu, South Korea, but its coverage – and in particular the performance of rookie anchor Ortis Deley – was heavily criticised. Channel 4 also has the rights to the 2013 championships, to be held in Moscow. But in 2015, when it will take place in Beijing, and 2017, when it will take place in London after UK Athletics beat a rival bid from Doha earlier this month, it will return to the BBC. The International Association of Athletics Federations has signed a deal with the European Broadcasting Union, of which the BBC is a member, to cover the whole of Europe and Africa.
The IAAF had a contract with the EBU until 2009, when it decided to sell the rights directly through an agency. • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. London 2012 Olympics: Dwain Chambers hopes to end career on British soil at Games. Britain's Olympic doping ban is unfair. Marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe has changed her stance regarding Britain's lifetime Olympic bans for doping offenders, saying it unfairly penalises compatriots like sprinter Dwain Chambers. Britain is the only country with such a strong sanction, but it is under threat since the Court of Arbitration for Sport last week overturned an IOC rule that bars any athlete who has received a doping suspension of more than six months from competing in the next Olympics.
While the verdict cleared the way for Olympic 400-metre champion LaShawn Merritt to defend his title next year in London, Chambers is still barred because of the national rules. Radcliffe said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that such an isolated stance by the British Olympic Association unjustly singles out the country's athletes. "I actually supported the rule that if you had a drugs ban you shouldn't be allowed to compete in the Olympics - it should be a life ban," Radcliffe told the AP. London 2012 Olympics: Dwain Chambers really does epitomise the Games spirit. London 2012 Olympics: BOA to decide whether to throw Dwain Chambers and Co 2012 lifeline by ditching bylaw. British Olympic official Colin Moynihan says WADA sanctions are weak. Darren Campbell: 'My mum said don't take drugs ... and she scares me!' - Profiles, People.
"He went, 'you need to do what the others are doing, get on the juice'," Campbell recalls. "I went 'the juice? ' He went, 'yeah, the juice'. I went 'right, OK' and that's one of the reasons I retired. " Dismayed by the evidence of widespread cheating in athletics, Campbell turned his back on the sport for two years, got a job with an insurance company and played semi-professional football. But a couple of years later, watching Toby Box and Jason John finishing second and third behind Linford Christie at a televised meeting in Sheffield, he felt the urge to race again. "I thought 'I need to go back, I used to beat those guys'. " He asked Christie if they could train together, but at first was turned down. I ask why he wasn't more forceful, why he didn't go straight to the authorities or at least lambast the pair for trying to corrupt him?
Why did he say no? Campbell's business partner, the man who conceived the whole enterprise, is Jon Williams, nutritionist to the Welsh rugby team. London 2012 Olympics: Dwain Chambers deserves to miss out on Games, says ex-100m champion Maurice Greene. “I knew he [Chambers] was taking drugs when he was running against me because the people he was dealing with came to me and said they could help me too,” said Greene. “I told them I wasn’t interested because without any drugs I was beating all the guys they were helping.
I was never tempted. But still their actions cost me.” When he was at his peak in the late Nineties, running usually with Chambers struggling in his wash, Greene was renowned for his self-esteem, a showman whose muscular frame pounded down the track, seemingly endangering its very surface. It was his implacable certainty rather than any ingestion of outside assistance that won him four Olympic medals. “I was patient,” he explained of his approach. And among those whose efforts he will be analysing for television next August, he sees only one who shares such confidence. “Listen, it’s obvious, if [Usain] Bolt runs like he did in China, then no one can touch him. “I can see a way to beat him, for sure. And they are? Greene slams drugs cheats | Latest News | London 2012 | Sky Sports Olympics.
World 400 metres hurdles champion Dai Greene thinks it is "terrible" that athletes with doping sanctions will be allowed to compete at the London Olympics. The British athlete could run against America's LaShawn Merritt, who recently served a suspension for three failed drugs tests, in the 4x400m relay in 2012. Merritt was originally prevented from competing in the London Games despite returning from his suspension, but had that ban overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. And Greene has not been afraid to voice his outspoken opinion on the subject, believing that those who have cheated in the past should not be allowed back into the Olympics. "I think it's terrible that LaShawn Merritt will be at the Olympics, I don't condone it at all," the Welshman told Sky Sports News. "It is a tough one, but I just don't think there's any place for them (drugs cheats) in sport.
Hard work "It is a tough one, but I just don't think there's any place for them (drugs cheats) in sport. " Danish doping decision puts pressure on BOA to lift life ban | London 2012. By David Owen November 13 - The Danish Sports Confederation (DIF) has abrogated rules forbidding former doping offenders from representing Denmark in the Olympic Games, in a move likely to increase pressure on the British Olympic Association (BOA) to take similar steps.
DIF said the decision was a reaction to last month's landmark ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that an International Olympic Committee (IOC) ban on convicted drug cheats was "invalid and unenforceable". Niels Nygaard, DIF chairman, said the body was taking the "natural consequence" of the CAS ruling. The IOC's Rule 45, created in June 2008, had barred any athlete who had received a doping suspension of more than six months from competing in the next Olympic Games. CAS's ruling followed a joint request for arbitration filed by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the IOC itself. But it was also apparent that the CAS ruling might force the BOA to re-think its regulations. BBC Sport - Amsterdam to host 2016 European Athletics Championships. A Profile of Athletics in Russia. IAAF latest rule can prove controversial for Jamaica | TrackAlerts. Diamond League winners to get wild card entry for World Championships | Athletics Weekly - the best coverage of the No.1 Olympic sport.
Home > News > Diamond League winners to get wild card entry for World Championships IAAF extends wild card entries for World Championships to Diamond League winners, while top-15 finishers at World Cross will be considered as having World Champs 10,000m ‘A’ standard Up until now, the only way of competing at the IAAF World Championships was to achieve the qualifying mark and gain selection from a national federation, or enter with an automatic ‘bye’ as the defending champion. But as of next year it will be easier – and somewhat more interesting – to guarantee a spot at the World Championships. The IAAF this week announced that the overall event winners of each track and field discipline in the Samsung Diamond League will all be rewarded with a wild card entry for the following year’s IAAF World Championships.
The rule will mainly benefit powerhouse nations such as USA, Kenya, Jamaica and Ethiopia, who all have brutal selection criteria and often leave quality athletes at home. World Championships will create athletics legacy - Richard Caborn. Insidethegames.biz | Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News.