Sport
Athletics
Black sprinters better because they ‘escape burglaries’: athletics official
Former England Athletics director Julian Starkey was accused of making the comment at an event in November and has been banned from holding such a position for three years.
- by Jeremy Wilson
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Raising the bar: Eleanor Patterson fights back to defend world title
Australian high jumper Eleanor Patterson overcame injury when she won gold at the world championships in 2022. This year, history is repeating itself.
- by Billie Eder
Top Scottish ultramarathoner sorry for using car during race
A Scottish doctor who lives in Australia has blamed jetlag for her decision to accept a car ride during an 80km race between Manchester and Liverpool.
Teens star as 200m sprint, Sally Pearson’s hurdles records fall
Australia unearthed two track stars of the future at the national junior athletic championships, with Delta Amidzovski breaking Sally Pearson’s under-18 record in the 100m hurdles, and Queenslander Gout Gout setting a new national record in the under-18 men’s 200m sprint.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Running
An Essendon connection and a family affair: The two teenagers who won the Stawell Gift
Bella Pasquali won the women’s final ahead of the woman who beat Pasquali’s mother in the same race eight years ago, while Ryan Tarrant had a little help from some key Bombers en route to claiming the men’s race.
- by Michael Gleeson
‘It’s scary’: Pole vaulter Marschall snaps pole at Australian championships
Two-time Commonwealth champion Kurtis Marschall has been lucky to escape serious injury after snapping his pole in the vault final at the Australian athletics championships in Brisbane.
- by John Salvado
‘I want to be a threat on the global scene’: Browning clocks record run
Rohan Browning reckons it’s only a matter of time before he joins countryman Patrick Johnson in the exclusive sub-10 second club after clocking the fastest 100m time by an Australian on home soil, and the third quickest ever by an Australian.
- by John Salvado
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Drugs in sport
‘It wasn’t racism, it was incompetence’: Peter Bol on botched doping case
Sports Integrity Australia and the federal sports minister have refused to comment on independent test results that cleared the runner of using EPO.
- by Andrew Webster
Editorial
World athletics championships
Peter Bol’s drug test result looks increasingly to be running on empty
Australian runner Peter Bol’s career was brought to a standstill after he was accused of drug cheating but questions about the validity of the test have authorities running for cover.
- The Herald's View
Analysis
Drugs in sport
Peter Bol deserves a Senate inquiry into handling of his doping case
Serious questions remain about the conduct and competence of the government agencies involved. Those questions must be answered.
- by Andrew Webster
Exclusive
Drugs in sport
‘Catastrophic blunder’: Independent testing reveals Peter Bol did not use EPO
Peter Bol’s legal team claims “inexperience and incompetence at the Australian Sports Drug Testing Laboratory led to an incorrect determination”.
- by Andrew Webster