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/ 22 September 2009
SA athletics officials will meet this week to discuss the future of their president, who faces calls to go after he admitted to lying.
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/ 20 September 2009
Athletics South Africa must ”fire” its president Leonard Chuene for ”lying” about gender tests conducted on 800m world champion Caster Semenya.
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/ 19 September 2009
Athletics SA president Leonard Chuene admits he refused to accept advice from doctor Harold Adams to withdraw Caster Semenya from the championships.
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/ 18 September 2009
It’s hard to imagine a case more tragic than that of Caster Semenya. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about the 18-year-old runner.
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/ 18 September 2009
Emails between the doctor of the athletics team, Harold Adams, and Leonard Chuene makes it clear that Chuene knew Caster Semenya was gender tested.
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/ 17 September 2009
Athletics South Africa (ASA) on Thursday requested that a commission of inquiry be established into how it handled the Caster Semenya saga.
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/ 17 September 2009
Athletics South Africa (ASA) boss Leonard Chuene is investigating claims that athlete Caster Semenya was duped into undergoing gender tests.
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/ 16 September 2009
Athletics South Africa president says the reports have been personalised to get rid of him.
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/ 21 November 2008
Not so long ago Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene was demanding a public apology from Moss Mashishi, the president Sascoc.
SA’s Olympics governing body is full of whites and Indians who don’t understand transformation and who lack vision, says Butana Komphela.
Leonard Chuene will have the last laugh on Sunday over his number-one enemy, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), when he is re-elected as president of Athletics South Africa. No one is standing against him. In the run-up to the elections, Chuene has been under pressure to resign.
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/ 2 November 2007
With prospects of yet another foreigner winning the Soweto Marathon, Athletics South Africa has decided to invest in the future of the sport. And that future, it says, lies with middle-distance runners such as 24-year-old University of Free State star Boy Soke. On Sunday, Soke will run the 10km route of the Soweto road race.
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/ 21 September 2007
Athletes have become the first casualty of mining company Harmony’s drastic drive to cut its soaring costs. The company has decided to rid itself of about 40 star athletes on its payroll and invest in developing talent. Professional runners at Harmony earn between R500 and R14 000 a month, depending on experience.