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Athletics News for 1 July 2016
Cheruiyot to go for Rio distance double after wins at the Kenyan Olympic Trials
IAAF - 1 Jul 2016 18:22
Vivian Cheruiyot, the IAAF World Championships Beijing 10,000m champion, will chase a long distance double at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after winning both over 25 laps of the track and then the 5000m at the Kenyan Olymp...
Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova cleared to compete as neutral athlete in Rio
The Guardian - 1 Jul 2016 10:25
• 800m runner becomes first athlete to pass 'exceptional eligibility' guidelines• Stepanova helped expose systematic Russian doping Russian doping whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova has become the first athlete to be gra...
Yuliya Stepanova: Russian whistleblower can run at Olympics as neutral - IAAF
BBC - 1 Jul 2016 10:23
Russian doping whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova is cleared by athletics chiefs to run as a "neutral" at this summer's Olympics.
Rio 2016: Derek Redmond helped by father in Barcelona 1992
BBC - 1 Jul 2016 07:13
In the BBC Sport Olympics countdown, we recall when injured 400m sprinter Derek Redmond was helped to the finish by his father in 1992.
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