All the athletics news that would not fit anywhere else, by EME News MANNHEIM (GER): The 20th edition of the Bauhaus junior meeting in Mannheim June 29-30 will be broadcasted live on the internet on leichtathletik.tv. Over 500 junior athletes are expected to compete, with so far 18 nations confirmed to travel to the event. BERLIN (GER): Green light for German distance runner Corinna Harrer, who has been in bed for over a week with food poisoning. Harrer confirmed she will start in the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome as well as in her hometown meeting of Regensburg on June 8th according to leichtathletik.de. LEE VALLEY (GBR): Athletics Weekly informs that if Adam Gemili’s loss to a 100 m unknown has left confusion don’t panic – the Olympian still ran 10.2 and his rival was a robot. Ahead of starting his season, the world junior 100m champion put his training to the test on Tuesday by taking on a slightly different kind of competition. In a man vs machine head-to-head at the Lee Valley training venue, the 19-year-old sprinter clocked 10.2 to finish a tenth of a second behind Brian the Robot, the new mascot of insurance comparison website confused, in his first race with a human. Gemili is expected to open his season at European U23 Trials in Bedford on June 15-16. BIRMINGHAM (GBR): lan Richardson has been appointed as Event Group Lead for Jumps and Combined Events after fulfilling the position in an interim capacity in recent weeks. As part of his duties, Richardson - formerly England Athletics’ National Coach Mentor and UKA’s National Event Coach for pole vault - will also continue to work alongside Development Manager Jo Jennings to support coaches of athletes on British Athletics‘ Futures Programme as well as working with targeted coaches. The 32 year old currently coaches a group including Scottish record holder Gregor MacLean and national under-20 champion Dan Gardner. Informs British Athletics website. PUNE (IND): Indian city Pune has finally been named as the host of the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships ending months of uncertainty after three cities refused to host the continental showpiece. With just a month to go to the competition, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) confirmed the city had stepped in to secure this year‘s event that will now be held at the Balewadi Sports Complex, a 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games venue, on July 3 until 7. Writes Insidethegames. PRETORIA (RSA): Media are writing that Oscar Pistorius stood for his entire 15-minute court hearing Tuesday, staring straight ahead, hands clasped in front of him and giving away little emotion as the world got its first close up view of the double-amputee Olympian and murder suspect in nearly four months. Magistrate Daniel Thulare postponed the case on Tuesday until Aug. 19 to allow police to complete their investigation. JENA (GER): After high water and floods canceled the Jena meeting now the Ernst Abbe Stadium is under the water. The damages and financial loss are big. The Jena club is in danger concerning its future. PRAHA (CZE): Czech capital is also suffering from floods. The Stromovka Area which contains the Otakar cJandera Hall for athletics (national indoor championships site) is under water and several damages are registered. The responsible people are hoping it will be not as dramatic as in 2002 when similar high water was in Praha. So far mainly youth and school meets in affected cities are being canceled, under water also stadiums in Vlasim and Sazava. NEW YORK (USA): Runnersworld informs that approximately 48 000 runners are registered for this year‘s New York City Marathon, race organizers New York Road Runners have announced now that the lottery for open-registration spots has closed. As such, the race has the potential to supplant the 2011 edition of the marathon, which had 46,759 finishers, as the largest in history. LAUSANNE (SUI): The month of May saw the 2013 European Cup Race Walking, the first of the summer‘s European Athletics Classic Permit Meetings, and many fine performances from European athletes in the first four of the 2013 IAAF Diamond League meetings. European Athletics is consequently pleased to announce that athletes from 12 different countries have been nominated for the May award. The voting will close on 18 June at noon. ST. PETERSBURG (RUS): Foreign athletes can be naturalized to perform for the Russian national athletics team in events with low results level. The president of the All-Russian Athletics Federation Valentin Balahnichev declared about that for national media. „Naturalization will concern those disciplines in which we didn’t have any success during the past 20 years and where we cannot change anything even if we have talented athletes. I mean the endurance events and first of all men middle and long distances, where we had no high-level athletes except of Yuri Borzakovskiy. We want to pay real attention to those events,“ Balakhnichev said to R-Sport news agency.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:20:23 +0000
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