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RIETI, Italy (AP) _ Now that sprinter Asafa Powell has lowered his 100-metre world record, he wants the one big prize missing from his collection _ an Olympic gold medal. ``Next year my only goal is the Olympics,'' the Jamaican said Monday, a day after improving his time by three-hundredths of a second to 9.74 at the Rieti Grand Prix. ``I plan to race many more times before the Olympics than I did this year.'' Powell has ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Olympic gold medalList Tim Montgomery pleaded guilty Monday in connection with a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and money laundering scheme, his lawyer said. The lawyer, Robert McFarland, declined to discuss details of the plea. The U.S. attorney's office had no immediate comment. Montgomery was charged last year along with his track coach, Steven Riddick, and 11 others in an alleged conspiracy to deposit $5 million in stolen, ...

The governing body for U.S. track and field is expanding its zero tolerance anti-doping policy to coaches. New regulations made public Thursday will require coaches to register with USA Track & Field, and coaches who have had athletes serve at least a two-year ban for doping or have been sanctioned themselves must be approved by a review panel. The rules, to take effect sometime next year, are the federation's first ...

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell and American 400-metre runner Sanya Richards are on the shortlist for the IAAF's world athlete of the year awards. Powell, who has twice equalled his world record of 9.77 seconds in the 100 metres this year, was on the men's list announced Wednesday by the International Association of Athletics Federations along with Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang of China and Lithuanian discus thrower Virgilijus Alekna. Joining Richards ...

Lornah Kiplagat set a world record in the 20-kilometre road race Sunday, winning in one hour three minutes 21 seconds at the inaugural IAAF World Road Running Championships. Kiplagat, who moved to the Netherlands from Kenya in 2003, broke the previous record of 1:03.26, set by Paula Radcliffe of Britain on Oct. 6, 2001, in Bristol, England. ``I used to have the world record over 20 kilometres, but then Paula took it and I really wanted it ...

Athletes are calling for longer bans and financial sanctions for people caught doping. At the IAAF's anti-doping symposium, athletes proposed extending bans from two to four years for a first offence, as well as having cheaters retroactively return prize money and possibly pay damages. ``We need to return to four-year bans for a first offence and lifetime for the second,'' Bahamian sprinter Debbie Ferguson said Monday. ``Two years is not ...

A recent study found banned steroids in nutritional supplements and ordinary vitamin tablets that doping experts say increases the risk for honest athletes. ``The situation in the nutritional supplement market has worsened and the risk of inadvertent doping is increasing,'' Hans Geyer, a researcher at the Cologne Doping Control Laboratory in Germany, said Sunday. ``It's absolutely catastrophic, even criminal in some cases.'' Geyer made the comments at a three-day anti-doping ...

Tracking accomplices of doping cheaters, identifying new designer drugs, and finding a test for human growth hormone are the biggest problems facing anti-doping authorities. Those predicaments were highlighted Saturday at the start of a three-day symposium organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Anti-doping experts are bracing themselves for gene doping and new and unknown forms of drugs, IOC medical commission president Arne Ljungqvist said. Athlete representatives lobbied for ...

The laboratory that tested Marion Jones' A and B samples is expected to report to the World Anti-Doping Agency within two weeks on why the results did not match. ``The laboratory concerned will conduct a discovery analysis to know why this occurred,'' WADA director general David Howman said Saturday. ``In any case where the B sample does not match the A sample, we ask the laboratory for a full report. ...

Canadian middle-distance veteran Kevin Sullivan raced to victory in the prestigious Fifth Avenue Mile on Saturday. Sullivan, from Brantford, Ont., won in three minutes 54.1 seconds, edging fellow University of Michigan product Nick Willis of New Zealand, who crossed in 3:54.7. Adam Goucher of Portland, Ore., was third in 3:55.1. Nate Brannen of Cambridge, Ont., was 10th in 3:59.4. Sullivan's victory comes on the heels of a successful track season ...

Scott Jurek of the United States won the Spartathlon on Saturday, a 245.3-kilometre race from Athens to Sparta that follows the 2,500-year-old route taken by legendary messenger Pheidippides. Japan's Inagaki Sumie was the top woman in the ultramarathon featuring 260 runners from 32 countries on a winding course along highways, dirt roads and mountains. Jurek completed the annual race in 22 hours 52 minutes 18 seconds and was followed by ...