Top French runners Mehdi Baala, seen here in 2009, and Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad seem set to escape any sanction from the French athletics federation after the duo came to embarrassing blows on the ...

Former European 1500m champion Mehdi Baala has been given a key role within the FFA leading into Paris 2024 ©Getty Images Baala, whose exchange of blows with combustible fellow countryman Mahiedine ...

French team mates Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad have been provisionally suspended after trading blows in an extraordinary incident after the 1,500 meters at the Monaco Diamond League.

PARIS, July 23 (Reuters) - French team mates Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad have been provisionally suspended after trading blows in an extraordinary incident after the 1,500 metres at ...

French team-mates Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad traded blows in an extraordinary incident after the 1,500 metres at the Monaco Diamond League on Friday, the Daily Mail reported. Baala ...

The French athletics federation provisionally suspended middle-distance runners Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad on Saturday after they traded punches during a Diamond League meeting Baala ...

PARIS -- The French athletics federation cleared middle-distance runners Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad to compete in the world championships. Baala and Mekhissi-Benabbad, both Olympic ...

Mehdi Baala, the double European 1500 metres champion sanctioned by the French Athletics Federation (FFA) in 2011 for his part in a trackside punch-up with a team-mate, has been given a key position ...