Turkey fails in bid to recruit 11 athletes ahead of Los Angeles 2028 Olympics

World Athletics has denied requests from 11 athletes to transfer allegiance to Turkey over what the sport’s governing body said “formed part of a coordinated recruitment strategy” by the Turkish government to attract athletes through lucrative contracts.The athletes in question are mostly Jamaican field athletes and Kenyan distance runners, in addition to Nigerian sprinter Favour Ofili and Russian multi-eventer Sophia Yakushina.Advertisement