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Usain Bolt to run at Penn Relays

World sprint double and relay world record holder Usain Bolt, will compete at the Penn Relays as part of the USA vs. the World event April 24, USA Track and Field announced Thursday. The Jamaican sprint ace is scheduled to compete in the men’s 4×100 relay and event he ran on the third leg when Jamaica smashed the world record at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He established world records... 

Usain Bolt anchors Racers Club to victory at Gibson Relays

Usain Bolt anchor Jamaica's relay team to win World and Olympic sprint double champion Usain Bolt anchored his Racers Lion Track Club to victory in the men’s 4x100m relay at the 2010 Gibson Relays, held at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday. The team of Kenroy Anderson, Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson and Bolt clocked a meet record of 38.08 seconds to take the gold medal... 

Bolt says he will take it easy in 2010

By Gary Smith, World-Track Usain Bolt reacts after winning the world championships 100m title in 9.58secs in Berlin PHOTO/Randy Miyazaki KINGSTON,  Jamaica — After setting the world alight with world record runs at the last two global championships, Usain Bolt says he will be taking things easy in a 2010 season that has no major championships on the schedule. Bolt, who won both the Olympic... 

Stewart hails rivalry with countrywoman Fraser

Two-hundredths of a second is all that separated compatriots Shelly-Ann Fraser and Kerron Stewart in the 100 metres finals at the IAAF World Champion-ships in Berlin this summer, as the pair dismissed the rest of the field en route to a Jamaica one-two in the highly anticipated event and in the process, fueling speculation of a fiery rivalry. This, however, was not the first time that the two sprinting... 

Retested Beijing athletes to learn fate in December

COPENHAGEN — Five athletes who tested positive for doping after blood sample retests from the 2008 Beijing Olympics will learn their fate in December, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. Bahrain’s Olympic 1,500 meters gold medallist Rashid Ramzi, who could have his medal stripped, and four other athletes tested positive for the blood booster CERA. All first-time doping offenders... 

Jamaican paper tells youngsters to 'stop being silly'

By Michelle Morris, World-Track Photo By Anthony Foster KINGSTON — The Jamaica Observer has warned country representative Yohan Blake and fellow Antiguan training partner Daniel Bailey that their "gesticulations and manoeuvers" in Paris last Friday were not cute. The paper was bringing to mind some pre-race comic-strip gestures from the pair prior to them racing the new personal bests... 

Business to learn lessons from Bolt

Lausanne, Switzerland – On Monday 6 July Usain Bolt will be on the campus of IMD, the leading global business school based in Lausanne for a unique event in which he will discuss motivation and how one sustains it through both failures and eventual victory with the business audience in attendance. The event is intended to enable business leaders to apply lessons in their respective careers from... 

No one will bet against the lightning Bolt

They sell insurance on the capture of the Loch Ness Monster, a hole-in-one, injuries caused by falling satellites, and NHL journeymen suddenly filling the nets with pucks. But no insurer wanted to touch a bet that the fastest man in the world would smash his own record at a track meet in Toronto last night. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, 22, was the star attraction of an eight-man field for the 100-metre... 
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