DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – London’s chances of hosting the 2017 athletics world championships are dead if it does not retain the 2012 Olympic Stadium for athletics, the president of the sport’s global governing body told Reuters on Saturday.

“If they have no stadium, they have no chance,” International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) president Lamine Diack said in an interview at the Daegu world championships.

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will not be rushed into revising the controversial false-start rule that sent Usain Bolt crashing out of the world championships 100 meters, a top official said on Wednesday.

The one-and-you-are-done rule has been in effect since January 2010 and most elite sprinters do not like it.

DAEGU, South Korea, Aug 31 (Reuters) – The International
Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will not be rushed
into revising the controversial false-start rule that sent Usain
Bolt crashing out of the world championships 100 metres, a top
official said on Wednesday.

The one-and-you-are-done rule has been in effect since
January 2010 and most elite sprinters do not like it.

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – A controversial false start rule that sent world record holder Usain Bolt crashing out of the world championships on Sunday drew immediate fire from world 100 metres silver medallist Walter Dix.

The defending champion was ejected from the 100 metres final after false-starting. Athletes who false start are immediately disqualified under a new rule introduced by the world governing body last year.

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – Usain Bolt will not win the 100 meters at the Daegu athletics world championships, according to Maurice Greene, once the world’s fastest man.

Greene, never one to shy away from grabbing headlines, predicted on Saturday that Bolt’s young training mate Yohan Blake would end the world record holder’s reign as world champion.

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – Jenn Suhr sharpens her pole vault technique in an icy hut where frost often covers her pole during a New York winter.

That discomfort pales in comparison to the pains the Olympic silver medallist has endured this spring and summer, she told Reuters in an interview on Friday.

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – Jamaican former world record holder Asafa Powell pulled out of the world championships 100 metres with a groin strain Thursday, spoiling a highly anticipated showdown with current title holder Usain Bolt.

“Asafa is very disappointed to say the least,” his agent Paul Doyle said in a statement. “He was really hoping to be able to run.”

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – U.S. sprinter Allyson Felix will receive some last-minute tips from a trailblazer as she launches her bid for a unparalleled 200-400 meters double at the world championships, the three-times world 200 meters champion’s coach said on Thursday.

“Valerie Brisco is coming in,” said Bob Kersee of the first woman to win both events at an Olympics in 1984 at Los Angeles.

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – Sanya Richards-Ross’s coach’s description of the U.S. 400 metres world champion might not sit well with airport security officials.

“(He) kept saying I was a ticking time bomb,” the Jamaican-born Richards-Ross told a media conference on Thursday ahead of the Daegu world championships. “He didn’t know when I was going to go off, but I was going to go off some time.”

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) – Senegal’s Lamine Diack was overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday, but vice president Sergei Bubka needed a second vote to retain his position.

Bubka, the retired world pole vault record holder from Ukraine, had finished an out-of-the running fifth in the original vote by the governing body’s congress.