{"id":41267,"date":"2026-04-17T03:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/world-athletics-governing-body-rejects-11-athlete-transfer-applications-to-turkey\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:41:24","slug":"world-athletics-governing-body-rejects-11-athlete-transfer-applications-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/world-athletics-governing-body-rejects-11-athlete-transfer-applications-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"World Athletics: Governing body rejects 11 athlete transfer applications to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additionally, it said the applications, &#8220;through a wholly-owned and financed government club&#8221;, were part of an &#8220;aim of facilitating transfers of allegiance and enabling those athletes to represent Turkey at future international competitions, including the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;Given the common features across the applications, the panel assessed them together and determined that such an approach is inconsistent with the core principles of the regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a result of the decisions, the athletes are not eligible to represent Turkey in national representative competitions or other relevant international events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other athletes were Catherine Relin Amanang&#8217;ole, Brian Kibor, Ronald Kwemoi and Nelvin Jepkemboi from Kenya, Jamaica&#8217;s Rajindra Campbell, Jaydon Hibbert and Wayne Pinnock plus Nigeria&#8217;s Favour Ofili and Russian Sophia Yakushina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c3ex2717742o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additionally, it said the applications, &#8220;through a wholly-owned and financed government club&#8221;, were part of an &#8220;aim of facilitating transfers of allegiance and enabling those athletes to represent Turkey at future international competitions, including the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games&#8221;. It added: &#8220;Given the common features across the applications, the panel assessed them together and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41269,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267\/revisions\/41269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}