Popular American sprinter Justin Gatlin has announced his retirement from athletics.
Gatlin who won 100m gold at the 2017 World Championship in London, scoring a rare victory over Usain Bolt, made the announcement in a post to his official Instagram page on Thursday night.
Chronicling his journey from playground to the world athletic’s stage, the sprinter said track and field changed his life.
Meanwhile, Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian figure skating star who helped her team win Winter Olympic gold in Beijing, failed a drugs test in December.
Valieva, who was the first female skater to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics as her team won last Monday, had a sample collected on December 25th at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in St. Petersburg. But the positive result was only reported on Tuesday – the day after she helped to win team gold, but before the medal ceremony had taken place.
A series of appeals means this case will now be taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to make a final ruling – with International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams saying he wanted a resolution “as quickly as possible”.
