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Loza Abera wins MFPA best player Award 2020
Addis Ababa, September 28, 2020 (FBC) – Loza Abera has won Malta Football Players Association Award of 2020 as best female player of the year.
Loza Abera said she wants to play for top teams in Europe and win more trophies after winning the 2019/2020 Maltese Women's Player of the Year award.
The Ethiopia international was voted by fans as…
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Former IAAF head found guilty of corruption, jailed
Addis Ababa, September 16, 2020 (FBC) -Lamine Diack, former head of athletics' world governing body, has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of them suspended, after being found guilty of corruption.
The Senegalese, 87, faced…
Ethiopia begins doping tests on more than 150 elite athletes
Addis Ababa, September 14, 2020 (FBC) -The Ethiopian national anti-doping office said it has begun doping tests on athletes.
More than 150 elite athletes are undergoing the two-day tests being done in partnership with world athletics…
Ethiopia to host 2020 CAF annual congress
Addis Ababa, September 7, 2020 (FBC)– Ethiopia has been selected to host the 2020 Confederation of African Football (CAF) annual congress scheduled for early December.
CAF President Ahmad Ahmad confirmed Addis Ababa as the venue for this…
Olympics must go ahead at any cost – Japan’s Olympic minister
Addis Ababa, September 8, 2020 (FBC) -The rearranged Tokyo Games must be held "at any cost" in 2021, says Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto.
The Games, which had been due to start in July, were postponed for a year in March amid…
Sifan Hassan sets new women’s one-hour world record
Addis Ababa, September 6, 2020 (FBC) -Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan smashed the world record for the rarely-run women's one-hour event at the Brussels Diamond league meet on Friday.
Sifan, the reigning world 1,500 and 10,000m…
Netsanet, Senbere & Andamlak named on strong RunCzech field for world record attempts
Addis Ababa, September 2, 2020 (FBC) -Ethiopia’s current world record holder in the women’s only division, Netsanet Gudeta headlines a strong field lined up for Saturday’s special 21-kilometre race in Prague with further records in mind.…