*The British Olympic Association and the World Anti-Doping Agency are currently embroiled in a very public spat over whose rules over doping bans are correct. * The BOA ban any hopeful Olympian for life if they have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. WADA mete out two-year bans.
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The British Olympic Association is deciding this week whether to revise its policy of imposing lifetime Olympic bans on athletes convicted of drug offences.
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London has been selected as the host city for the 2017 World Athletics Championships the IAAF have announced.   The governing body for world athletics decided that London would host for the championships for the first time in its history.
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Sportsvibe caught up with one of the most inspirational athletes in the world, Ironman Triathlete Chrissie Wellington.   See Chrissie talk about competing, what goes through her head and 'chicking' the opposition.   Interview by: Adrian Back  
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South African double-amputee 400 metres runner Oscar Pistorius has yet to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, despite competing at this year's World Championships.   Pistorius ran a personal-best of 45. 07 seconds in July to dip under the 45. 25-second qualifying mark for London.
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Olympic champion Maurice Greene is among the 2011 inductees into the National Track & Field Hall of Fame. Greene, along with Gail Devers, Vince Matthews, Clarence Demar, coach Bob Timmons and 2010 Hall selection Craig Virgin will be inducted in December at the 2011 USATF Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
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Two members of the British bobsleigh team are in hospital after crashing whilst training out in Germany, according to reports on the BBC. The two women athletes involved in the incident at the Winterberg track in the north-west of the country have not been named.
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British sprinter Dwain Chambers has revealed he is still considering whether to appeal his Olympic ban after stating that he wants to finish his career "on a high note. " Chambers completed a two-year ban in 2005 after he tested positive for, then admitted to taking performance-enhancing substances.
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Athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie has been announced as an official bid ambassador and member of the Athlete Commission for London's bid to host the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championship.
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Former British middle distance runner and Olympic silver medallist Steve Cram says he’s looking forward to a good showing by British athletes at next year’s games.   “I am very excited about next year,” he told the BBC.
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As two-time Olympian and European Indoor 3000m champion Helen Clitheroe recounts the most successful season of her career, she unknowingly presents a strong case to UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee that her Lottery funding should be reinstated.
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Some of Britain's greatest athletes, past and present, have been unveiled as official ambassadors for London's bid to host the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
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The BOA (British Olympic Association) have today confirmed that Ben Ainslie will be one of the first athletes to be selected to be part of Team GB for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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To celebrate the partnership with UK Athletics, Mitchum Anti-perspirant and Deodorant will be hosting an athletics masterclass with top GB athletes.
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While the recent World Athletics Championships in Daegu offered its audience the chance to feast on the planet’s finest competitors, for Tasha Danvers the viewing was not so easy.   “Yeah it’s a bit of a headache.
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Try as she might, Tanni Grey-Thompson cannot suppress a beaming, infectious grin. Less than twelve months until the Paralympic Games get underway, it would be a gross understatement to suggest that she is thrilled about the festival of disabled sport that will descend on London next August.
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In a world where sporting prowess and achievement is rewarded by multi-million pound deals and endorsements from the world’s biggest sponsors, it’s no wonder so many people look at sport as a career.
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*With less than a year to go, we bring you a 2012 Paralympic Games special featuring articles with some of the most inspiring athletes in the world, here to give you their unqiue stories of overcoming adversity to compete on the world's greatest stage. *   * *
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With a year to go until the London Paralympics gets underway, Welsh swimmer David Roberts is more excited about the prospect than most. He is currently an eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist, having competed at three games.
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*Arguments are still raging over whether the false start rule which put Usain Bolt, Dwain Chambers and Christine Ohurugu out of their events in the World Championships in Deagu this weekend. * * * Olympic organising committee chairman Lord Coe defended the policy and claimed it would still be in place for 2012.
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