Category: Sports
Rwanda: Cycling Team Out to Shine in Tour of Eritrea
NAIROBI (HAN) April 16. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By Peter Kamasa. The Rwanda National Cycling team is geared up ahead of this year’s Tour of Eritrea scheduled for April 16-24. The tour will have three different races covering a total distance of 670km. This is the sixth edition of the annual Tour of Eritrea,…
Ethiopia told to do mass doping tests or face IAAF ban
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 12. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By ELIAS MESERET. Ethiopia must carry out mass doping tests on up to 200 athletes by November or be the latest to face further action by the World Anti-Doping Agency and a possible ban by the IAAF, track and field officials in the country said Thursday.…
Ethiopia to test 350 athletes in doping probe
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 8. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Ethiopia will test more than 350 athletes for the use of banned substances by November as it probes suspicious results, the Horn of Africa nation’s athletics federation said. The move comes after discussions with the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Association of Athletics Federations, Alebachew…
Athletics-Ethiopians shake off doping concerns to strike gold
Oregon (HAN) March 21. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By Gene Cherry. Ethiopia, one of five countries under the watchful eye of the IAAF over concern for their drug-testing systems, dominated the long races to finish second at the world indoor championships that ended on Sunday. Led by world record holder Genzeba Dibaba, the African…
Aregawi Suspended by Sweden After Failed Dope Test
STOCKHOLM (HAN) March 1, 2016 –Geeska Sports. World indoor 1500 metres champion Abeba Aregawi has been banned from Swedish athletics after she tested positive for an unspecified banned substance, the national federation said on Monday. The suspension means the Ethiopian-born runner’s place in the Swedish team for the Rio Olympics in August is now in…
Ethiopia Anti-Doping Agency: 9 Athletes Under Investigation
Nairobi (HAN) March 1, 2016 –Geeska Sports. Nine Ethiopian runners, five of them “top athletes,” are under investigation for doping, the general secretary of the country’s anti-doping agency said Monday, raising fears of another damaging scandal for track and field in the run-up to the Rio Olympics. Solomon Meaza told The Associated Press that the…
Eritrea: The Forgotten Rider, Tesfom Okubamariam
Nairobi (HAN) March 1, 2016 –Geeska Sports. By: Pierre Carrey Five hours earlier, the finisseur claimed the gold medal of the Continental Championships, outsprinting two professionals of Team Dimension Data, Algeria’s Youcef Reguigui and fellow Eritrean Mekseb Debesay. He had a clean two-meter gap on the finish line in Benslimane, Morocco. With five men in the top 10, his…
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Ethiopia’s Hadnet Asmelash Dreaming of turning Pro in Europe
Mogadishu (HAN) February 27, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Girlfriend of Lampre-Merida rider Tsgabu Grmay is one of the best female cyclists in Africa.From her home in Ethiopia, Hadnet Asmelash never missed a stage of the Giro d’Italia last year. Whatever the race went through, the flat stages or the Dolomites, she tried to see…
Eritrea: Teklehaimanot Inspiring Africa More Than Ever
Nairobi (HAN) February 24, 2016 – Geeska Sports. “Some people say Daniel won’t come to the event because he has nothing to do anymore with us, African riders. But me, I know he will come. He has to come, African Championships made him,” Razak Umar told Cyclingnews. Speculations stopped when Team Dimension Data’s pro cyclist, the…
