In 2006 and 2010, Spanish police launched wide-ranging antidoping investigations, finding abundant evidence of illegal activities by doctors, professional riders and track-and-field athletes.
Her lifetime ambition is to follow in the footsteps of the North African nation's legendary middle-distance track and field athletes and win Olympic gold.
Britain's track and field athletes were absent from the ceremony as they are yet to travel to Beijing from the team's Macau training camp.
These items ranged from empty boxes of Serostin (a human growth hormone) and testosterone, to personal notes from elite track and field athletes thanking Conte.
The Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council decreed last year that a maximum of seven track and field athletes would be included in the overall squad.
Sunday was a mixed bag for American track-and-field athletes.
Staff members say the center, part of a network that includes several others in Spain, is managed by the regional government and works often with professional athletes, including cyclists, track-and-field athletes, soccer and tennis players, providing advice on nutrition and training regimes and top-class fitness equipment.
Track and field is littered with athletes tainted by scandal.
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It's an odd predicament, to say the least, but if you're familiar with the kind of off-field trouble that professional athletes can get into, an imaginary girlfriend doesn't sound like much of a headache for human resources.
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Whereas Page, Zuckerberg and Mayer innovated on the web, 40-year-old Kevin Plank provided a new experience for athletes on the field.
As athletes neared the field of play, herded by priests and whip-bearers, they were reminded of all who had offended Zeus and disgraced their home communities.
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We saw an awful lot of the action, as well as doing our jobs, we used to get the equipment ready for the track events and escort the athletes to he field.
At an Olympics that has already been rocked by Twitter blunders and a badminton scandal, the youngest competitors are handling themselves with dignity and poise in a field dominated by more experienced athletes.
More often than not, it's about putting the best athletes on the field and letting them outwork and outrun their opponents, a strategy that has brought the U.S team three gold medals and one World Cup since 1996.
In addition to the media flight, the on-field integration includes UA branded attired athletes and signage throughout.
Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and local athlete Jared Deacon are the other British athletes in the 400m field.
The earnings window for athletes in sports like gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, and figure skating is very small, both in terms of the number of athletes that will cash in as well as the length of time they have to cash in.
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But the athletes and coaches on the field and the brands willing to pony up the money to gain 30-seconds of exposure during breaks in the action are not the only benefactors of the Big Game.
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But to be honest, it has to do with the overall culture here in Jamaica, wherein track and field is a major sport, and athletes, for instance, are trained from an early age about how to sprint.
"We cannot send any replacements for the two athletes now, but we will field a relay team in Japan, " he said.
In probing tableaux composed with alluring depth of field, Wiseman often shows two or more athletes training at once (and captures their staccato polyrhythms on the sound track, which he recorded himself).
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The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
He points to the varied platforms on which you can connect to what is happening in the game: using FiOS to watch live games on smartphones, mobile apps track player stats, or mobile services used by athletes to monitor their health off the field and safety on it.
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All athletes in a sport, like track and field, become suspect even though the majority, he believes, are clean.
These universities stockpiled the best athletes in football, basketball, track and field, swimming and wrestling and compiled long winning streaks.
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During time trials this week to narrow the U.S. field of 101 to 64, many racers returned to the athletes' tent wounded and winded.
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The 160-strong US track and field team will train in and around the city as will 60 athletes from the Jamaican squad.
Detractors will argue that steroids and doping can pose health risks to the athletes involved, but athletes undertake serious health risks by simply walking onto the field or straddling a bike.
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The most enticing option is the head-to-head proposition, which pits two athletes in direct competition or puts a single athlete up against the field.
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