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The Independent
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- The Independent
Olympic champion Gabby Thomas demands drastic change to stop doping in athletics
Triple Olympic champion Gabby Thomas has suggested drastic new measures to try and combat the doping issues currently plaguing athletics. During the past decade, nearly 400 Kenyan athletes have been suspended for doping-related offences, including women's marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich earlier this summer, while United States sprinter Fred Kerley is currently provisionally suspended for an alleged anti-doping whereabouts violation. Just this week, Ukrainian triple jumper Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk – who won silver at the 2023 World Championships – received a four-year ban for doping and India's 1500m champion Parvej Khan was handed a six-year ban for multiple whereabouts failures and a positive test for an illegal substance. These are just a small number of the doping allegations that have clouded the sport in recent times and Thomas – who won gold in the 200m and also helped USA claim victory in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays at the Paris Olympics last summer – has proposed a radical solution. Writing on social media, the 28-year-old wants lifetime bans for any coaches implicated in doping, rather than seeing them welcomed back into the fold. 'Doping coaches should be banned for life from coaching in the sport,' she wrote on Instagram. 'Whether you were banned while competing as an athlete or caught distributing as a coach (for some, both). I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. If you train under a coach who is known for doping (once, twice, or even three times for some) you are complicit. That's my stance.' Thomas added further thoughts on X (formerly Twitter) and said that she is desperate to see the sport of athletics improve its image around these issues while she's an active athlete. 'When I graduated from college, I came into this sport sooo naive,' Thomas continued. 'After six years, I just want better for athletes. We deserve it. My goal is to leave this sport better than I found it.' Thomas's comments, as well as coming hot on the heels of the announcement of Bekh-Romanchuk's doping ban, could also be seen as a not-so-subtle dig at Dennis Mitchell, the coach of her sprint rivals Sha'Carri Richardson and Twanisha Terry. As an athlete, Mitchell finished fourth in the 100m final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, dubbed 'the dirtiest race in history, before trying to explain away an excess testosterone finding in 1998 by claiming the night before the test he'd drunk five beers and had sex with his fiancee four times, stating that "it was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat". He served a two-year ban. Later, when under oath in 2008 during the BALCO investigation, Mitchell testified that he'd received human growth hormone (HGH) injections from his coach, Trevor Graham, and that when he was an adviser to Marion Jones in 1997, they had sought Graham's counsel about performance-enhancing-drug use. Then, in 2017, two-time doping suspendee Justin Gatlin sacked Mitchell as his coach after he was recorded allegedly offering to supply performance-enhancing drugs to undercover reporters. Whether or not Thomas's comments were a deliberate nod to Mitchell, her proposed plan would rule him out of coaching in a bid to clean up the sport.
The Independent
11 hours ago
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Diamond League 2025: Lausanne schedule and start times
A busy end to the Diamond League season continues apace as a strong field assembles in Lausanne just a few days after the last meet in Poland. The Silesia event featured an entertaining sprint duel between Kishane Thompson and Olympic champion Noah Lyles of the United States, and the pair were set to clash again at the Athletissima meet with the World Athletics Championships looming next month, but the Jamaican has pulled out of the final three Diamond League meets, citing shin discomfort. Fresh from a stunning return to action after injury, Keely Hodgkinson will bid for more two-lap success in the 800 metres, and will go head-to-head with British middle-distance rival Georgia Hunter-Bell. With the Diamond League finals across Switzerland in Zurich now just a week away, plenty of others will be looking to build momentum into a key part of the season. Here's everything you need to know. When is the Lausanne Diamond League event? The Lausanne Diamond League event, also known as the Athletissima, will be held at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise on Wednesday 20 August. How can I watch it? Viewers in the United Kingdom can watch the action live on BBC Two, with coverage on the channel from 7pm BST. A live stream will be available via the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website. Schedule (all times BST) 6.30pm Men's shot put 6.30pm Women's javelin 7.04pm Women's 400m 7.05pm Women's pole vault 7.11pm Women's 800m 7.25pm Women's high jump 7.29pm Women's 3000m steeplechase 7.49pm Women's 200m 7.50pm Men's long jump 7.55pm Men's 5000m 8.14pm Women's 100m hurdles 8.23pm Men's 800m 8.32pm Men's 400m hurdles 8.40pm Men's 100m 8.52pm Women's 4x100m Full live results can be found here Diamond League 2025 venues 26 April: Xiamen, China 3 May: Shaoxing, China 16 May: Doha, Qatar 25 May: Rabat, Morocco 6 June: Rome, Italy 12 June: Oslo, Norway 15 June: Stockholm, Sweden 20 June: Paris, France 5 July: Eugene, United States 11 July: Monaco 19 July: London, United Kingdom 16 August: Chorzow, Poland 20 August: Lausanne, Switzerland 22 August: Brussels, Belgium
Powys County Times
a day ago
- Powys County Times
Keely Hodgkinson won't rule out making attempt at new British record in Lausanne
Keely Hodgkinson has left open the possibility of breaking her own British 800 metres record at Saturday's Diamond League meet in Lausanne. The Olympic champion marked her return from a 376-day absence on Saturday in Silesia in stunning style, clocking a world-leading one minute and 54.74 seconds, the ninth-fastest women's 800 metres performance in history. It was also the second quickest Hodgkinson had ever run her signature event, behind her own national record of 1:54.61 set at the London Diamond League last year. 'I guess I was pretty close the other day, so I wouldn't rule it out, no,' said the 23-year-old. ⭐️ Keely is BACK ⭐️ 376 days away, no stress 😤 Keely Hodgkinson clocks a time of 1:54.74 in the women's 800m for a new meeting record and world lead. #SilesiaDL | @keelyhodgkinson — British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 16, 2025 'I think it just depends, like, when you're running those kinds of times you've really got to be on the pace. Point four out can cost you point four later on. So getting the first lap right is really important and coming into that second lap is really important. 'I wouldn't say it's off the cards, but we'll just have to see what the body is feeling.' Just two women – Jarmila Kratochvilova and Nadezhda Olizarenko – have ever recorded times under one minute and 54 seconds. The former set the current world record of one minute and 53.28 seconds in 1983. I have said before that I think 1:53 is possible (but) you've got to really get that right,' said Hodgkinson. 'It's got to be a really good day. It's probably one of those one-off peak days where everything's gone right. It definitely would be an aim of mine. It would be a great achievement to be getting closer and closer to that 1:53. I do believe it's possible, but we'll just have to see what happens.' Hodgkinson has less than a month remaining until the 800 metres heats begin at the world championships in Tokyo, where she hopes to back up her Olympic victory with her first world title. She even has the name of the Japanese capital tattooed on her arm, in commemoration of the place where she made her Olympic debut – and collected a silver medal – in 2021. Presser done ✔️ Athletes have given their thoughts and views. It's all eyes on the competition to come now 😮💨 #LausanneDL 🇨🇭 #DiamondLeague 💎 — Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) August 19, 2025 Hodgkinson's injury-plagued post-Olympic year began with a recurrence of a knee issue before she sustained a left hamstring tendon injury in February, then injured her right hamstring in May, though it was 'supposedly not as bad as the other one'. The Atherton athlete and her team are now building speed back into her training – the injury, she revealed, is known as a 'sprinter's injury' – ahead of the global showdown. She added: 'Things have gone really well. The body's a lot stronger, all I've done is train all year so I'm definitely in a really good place physically. It's just all about things coming together now and hopefully putting those mental blocks and barriers behind me.'
