On Tuesday, Spain's minister for sports acknowledged that country has a problem with doping that must be addressed as Spain bids for the 2020 Olympics. Jose Ignacio Wert, minister of Education, Culture, and Sport said he would crack down on doping violations and bring Spain in line with WADA's anti-doping code. "Of course we have a problem with doping, there's no secret it's one of the hottest topics of the moment," he said. The statement follows last week's Court of Arbitration for Sport deci... Read More
A 38-year-old Colorado man died in an avalanche on Monday while snowboarding in sidecountry terrain near Telluride. A pair of skiers discovered Nate Soules after seeing signs of a slide outside Telluride's eastern boundary in the Bear Creek area shortly after noon. Soules was travelling alone but was equipped with avalanche survival equipment, including a beacon, Avalung, and an avalanche airbag. San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters said the airbag had been deployed but was "shredded." Soule... Read More
Officials in Washington, D.C. are considering using snipers from the federal government to cull 80 percent of the white-tailed deer population in Rock Creek Park. Deer have caused disturbances in nearby neighborhoods and have eroded areas of the park from over grazing. Wildlife officers euthanized one animal last month after it crashed through the window of a public library. The plan calls for snipers from the United States Department of Agriculture who would operate during winter nights to av... Read More
Two well-known Norwegian climbers died late last week in an apparent accident on Kjerag in southwestern Norway. Bjorn-Eivind Aartun and Stein-Ivan Gravdal were attempting to put up a new ice route on Kjerag's 3,228-foot face. When they failed to return by Thursday, friends alerted emergency services. A helicopter found the partners hanging upside down from their rope, with blood visible on the cliff below them. Norway's national climbing association said today that the deaths may have been cau... Read More
American distance runners broke five national indoor records at meets across the country this weekend in one of the busiest stretches of racing of the year. Bernard Lagat won the 2012 Millrose Games in New York in 13:07.15, bettering Galen Rupp's 2011 mark by more than four seconds. Rupp, racing at a separate meet in Fayeteville, Arkansas, in turn ran 8:09.72 to break Lagat's old U.S. two-mile record by two seconds. Brigham Young University runner Miles Battey also lowered the NCAA mile record... Read More
