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Well, the World Champs will be shown on Eurosport. With that, access to the World Athletics Champs for most of Europe will be guaranteed, if one has cable. Nice to see this one!

DAEGU ON EUROSPORT

MONACO (MON): Great news for athletics fans in Europe. The IAAF announced the conclusion of a
Pan-European broadcasting deal brokered by IEC in Sports, IAAF’s media rights
agency for Europe and Africa, with Eurosport
for the IAAF World Athletics Series of events from 2011 to 2013. The agreement
begins with LIVE coverage of the 2011 IAAF World Championships, Daegu, Korea (27 Aug to 4 Sep) and also covers the
following edition in 2013 in
Moscow, Russia (10 – 18 Aug). Eurosport
expects to reach very strong viewership for Daegu 2011 and will broadcast at
least the 100 hours of dedicated coverage it showed for the 2009 IAAF World
Championships that took place in Berlin
and attracted 66 million different European viewers on Eurosport. In addition
to the outdoor World Championships, the deal also includes wide coverage of the
2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Istanbul,
Turkey (9-11
March), the World Junior, World Youth, World Cross Country and World Half
Marathon Championships. As well as Eurosport’s television broadcasting of the
World Athletics Series events on Eurosport and Eurosport 2, the agreement also
allows for LIVE streaming via internet and mobile devices.

SUCCESFULL EDITION OF EUROPEAN
U23

OSTRAVA (CZE): The 8th edition of European U23
Championships in Ostrava
achieved in All-Athletics.com scoring 164 555 points and is currently the
fourth best multidays competition in 2011. Better only US Championships, SPAR
European Team Championships in Stockholm
and NCAA Championships. Only the 2003 edition in Bydgoszcz
(165 228) has more points than Ostrava
from the other European U23 Championships.

EL-SHERYF GETS HERCULIS INVITE

MONACO (MON): The organizers of Herculis Samsung
Diamond League in Monaco
this Friday reacted promptly on the injury of Teddy Tamgho who was not able to
jump in Ostrava at the European U23
Championships and will pass also his expected clash with Philips Idowu in Monte Carlo. They secured
the participation of new top competitor, the fresh European U23 Champion Sheryf
El-Sheryf from Ukraine
who improved on Sunday to 17.72
m. In Monaco
competing will be also the other star from Ostrava
event, Russian long jumper Darya Klishina who improved in Ostrava to 705 cm. She will face the
reigning World Champion and World leader Brittney Reese of USA and fresh Bahamian record
holder and CAC winner Bianca Stuart.

ENNIS AT UK TRIALS

BIRMINGHAM (GBR): World and European heptathlon champion
Jessica Ennis will compete in no less than five individual disciplines at the
forthcoming Aviva UK Trials and Championships as she steps up preparations for
the defence of her World title later this summer. While the 25-year-old will
contest the high jump and 100m hurdles – the disciplines she won back in 2009
when she last competed at the Trials – she will also line up in the long jump,
shot put and javelin. Ennis’ first national title was the hurdles in 2007, but
this year she must contend with Tiffany Ofili-Porter, who only two months ago
broke the 15-year-old British record with a season’s best 12.77secs. The City
of Sheffield
athlete has already won the Gotzis Hypo meeting this summer and admits a good
performance at Birmingham Alexander Stadium on 29-31 July could set her on her
way to World Championships glory in Daegu next month. Organizers are informing
in a release.

US RELAYS IN LIGNANO

LIGNANO (ITA): Tuesday´s 22nd Sport Solidarieta meet in Lignano will
have US national men and women teams running 4×100 m relay in preparation for
the World Championships. Another top star is Russian pole vault queen Yelena
Isinbayeva. Great clash is expected in men´s 100 m when Jamaican Steve
Mullings (his first race since Jamaican Trials) runs against in-shape Nesta
Carter and US Mike Rodgers. In the women 100 m the start of the world champion
Shelly-Ann Fraser is expected. Women 100 m hurdles will see Kellie Wells against Nia
Ali and another world champion Brigitte Foster-Hylton. Oscar Pistorius will
have his last chance for individual qualification for the 400 m in Daegu.

THORKILDSEN FOR LUZERN

LUZERN (SUI): The Spitzenleichtathletik meet of Luzern this Thursday (EA
Classic) attracted another world star for the jubilee edition. Men´s javelin
will see world and European champion Andreas Thorkildsen. Also throwing Turkish
record holder Fatih Avan who recently won a silver medal at European U23
Championships in Ostrava, US Champion Mike Hazle, Ukrainian record holder
Roman Avramenko and Igor Janik of Poland. Women´s 100 m will see olympic
medalist Sherone Simpson from Jamaica.
Already earlier the participation of Yelena Isinbayeva was announced.

OTHER NEWS

LONDON (GBR): Visa has announced it will sponsor four
new United States
Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls on their journey to the London 2012 Olympic and
Paralympic Games providing direct funding, promotional support and life skills
training in their quest for glory. Paralympic swimmer Jessica Long, track and
field athlete Lopez Lomong, wheelchair basketball player Alana Nichols and
gymnast Alicia Sacramone, join an elite group of long-time Visa-sponsored US
athletes that include Olympic champions such as swimmers Michael Phelps and
Katie Hoff, track and field sprint athlete Allyson Felix, beach volleyball
player Kerri Walsh, gymnast Nastia Liukin and decathlete Bryan Clay.

INDIANAPOLIS (USA):
Seventy-nine young athletes have been selected to represent the United States at the 2011 Pan American Junior
Athletics Championships July 22-24
in Miramar,
Fla. Among them fast sprinter
Marvin Bracy and hurdlers Trinity Wilson and Eddie Lovett.

BUDAPEST (HUN): Last week it was the 183rd week in his career that
Jamaican sprint sensation Asafa Powell leads the All-Athletics.com Men’s 100m
World Ranking. Powell had been used to this position, but not lately. Thanks to
his excellent recent performances Powell took the leading position in the
latest rankings. Both other new event leaders last week are shot putters. It is
the first time ever that Dylan Armstrong can call himself a world ranking
leader. The Canadian thrower now shares the top spot in the men’s Shot Put with
Christian Cantwell of the USA.
Valerie Adams of New Zealand
had already led the women’s world shot put ranking for 119 weeks before, but it
took exactly one year for her to regain the lead again from Nadezhda Ostapchuk
of Belarus.
Informs All-Athletics.com website.

SYDNEY (AUS): Athletics Australia
confirmed that Victoria
Police have found a complaint made by John Steffensen about an alleged incident
with Athletics Australia President Rob Fildes OAM at the 89th Australian
Athletics Championships as unsubstantiated. Athletics Australia was
informed that, in the opinion of officers at Richmond Police Station, Fildes
has no case to answer. Steffensen has been informed of the decision through his
lawyers.

LONDON (GBR): Britain’s athletes should be
allowed to march in the Opening Ceremony at London 2012, the chairman of the
International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commisssion Frankie Fredericks has
claimed here. The four-time Olympic silver medallist said that if UK Athletics’
head coach Charles van Commenee imposed his blanket ban on the track and field
team taking part in the Ceremony then they risked missing out on some of the
most special moments of the Olympics. The Games are due to open next year on
July 27, a
week before the athletics event begins on August 3, but van Commenee believes
it would be counterproductive for the athletes to attend the event just days
before the biggest competition of their lives. Fredericks, however, disagrees
and has offered to help find a solution so that Britain’s athletes can take
participate by shortening the length of time that they spend taking part in the
Ceremony. Fredericks carried the Namibian flag
at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona
when his country made its debut in the Games, which did not stop him winning
silver medals in the 100 and 200
meters. Informs insidethegames. Van Commenee has claimed
that the Opening Ceremony “doesn’t fit in the professional preparation for the
biggest event of your life”.

RATINGEN (GER): After the Ratingen
meet all is set for the names who will compete for Germany in Daegu in combined
events. Jan-Felix Knobel qualified already in Gotzis and should be in Korea with Rico
Freimuth and Pascal Behrenbruch. The women heptathlon team will be composed by
Jennifer Oeser, Lilli Schwarzkopf and Julia Mächtig. Final confirmation from
the national federation DLV is still necessary.

BARCELONA (ESP): The 17th International meet in Barcelona this Friday (EA
Premium) confirmed the participation of Jamaican Daegu-bound sprinter Yohan
Blake at 100 m.
It will be the first competition for Blake since Jamaican championships. He
will attack not only the meet record (10.14) but it is expected that he can
come close to the stadium record 9.96 by Linford Christie when winning the
Olympic gold in 1992. Also competing is Cuban world record holder Dayron Robles
at 110 m
hurdles and Spanish European champions at 1500 m Nuria Fernandez with
Arturo Casado.

MONTREAL (CAN): Sprint Management (formerly Top Elite
Management) is proud to announce the signing of 23 year old Canadian Hurdler
Phylicia George. Phylicia is coming off of back to back wins in the NTL series
that saw her set a new personal best in Halifax of 12.76 (-1.0) and repeat
three days later by winning the Toronto Track & Field Games over fellow
Canadian Perdita Felicien 12.87 (-1.7). Phylicia is one of three Canadians who
will represent Canada
at the World Championships later this summer. Phylicia will continue to train
as planned towards worlds and will race next at the Aviva Grand Prix early
August in London
where she will make her Diamond League debut.

MAYAGUEZ (PUR): Grenada stars were competing at the
weekend´s CAC Championships, but only in relays. Young star Kirani James and
world leader Rondell Bartholomew ran second and fourth leg for Grenada
team which as fifth with 3:04.27 clocked new national record at 4×400 m.

NAIROBI (KEN): One of the current world leaders will
not compete in Daegu at the World Championships. It is Kenyan steeple runner
Paul Kipsiele Koech, he was only 7th at the trials with 8:34.35. He leads 2011
World lists with 8:01.83 from Bislett Games in Oslo. But it is not for first time that it
happened to Koech. He is running at world level since 2002 and so far made
three times (World Championships 2005 and 2009 and Olympic Games 2004).

NAIROBI (KEN): German statistician and national records expert Winfried
Kramer points out that at the Kenyan trials the walks were most probably held
at the same course used at last year’s African championships which was
considered as short.