Powell slams plan to rewrite records
jump world recordholder Mike Powell said plans to rewrite world records set before 2005 are “a slap in the face” and vowed today to fight the move.
European Athletics has proposed that only world records that stand up to strict criteria should be recognised in order to make a clean break with the sport’s doping scandals.
Powell, who jumped 8.95 metres in August 1991, said the proposals were “disrespectful, an injustice and a slap in the face”. “I’ve already contacted my attorney,” the American, 53, told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“There are some records out there that are kind of questionable I can see that but mine is the heart and guts, one of the greatest moments in the sport’s history. They would be destroying so many things with this decision, without thinking about it. It’s wrong. Regardless of what happens, I am going to fight.”
Under the proposals, world records will only stand if set at approved international events and if the athletes concerned had undergone a certain number of
THREE MORE RUSSIANS ADMIT TO DOPING
Three more Russian athletes including a sprinter stripped of Olympic gold have admitted doping, the country’s tainted track and field body (RUSAF) said on Wednesday.
Among the trio was sprinter Yulia Chermoshanskaya, a member of Russia’s gold-meda winning 4x100m relay team a the 2008 Olympics. The relay quartet was last year stripped o gold after Chermoshanskaya tested positive. Shot putters Anna Omarova and Soslan Tsiri khov both disqualified in