Usain Bolt has taken a massive step in his preparation to defend his Olympic Games sprint titles after the World record holder purchased one of the starting blocks that will be used in London. Bolt has been complaining of having problems with the new blocks being used on the international circuit – revealing that they are a little bigger than normal. The Jamaican has struggled all season to get... 

Friday, the best athletes in the world will meet in Monaco on the occasion of the Samsung Diamond League meeting Herculis as their last stop before heading to London for the Olympics. As an opening, USA 4x100m teams will bring their best games to test themselves before the Olympics Games, and should bring on Louis II track Tyson GAY, Justin GATLIN, and also Carmelita JETER and Allyson FELIX. For... 

EUGENE, Oregon (Sporting Alert) -– Justin Gatlin was the fastest qualifier from the heats in the men’s 100 metres at the U.S. Olympic Games trials at Hayward Field on Saturday. The 2004 Olympic Games champion clocked 9.90 seconds to win his heat in the quickest time on the evening and defeated World Indoor finalist Trell Kimmons (10.11). Also moving into the semis is American record holder... 

Former World and Olympic sprint champion Justin Gatlin says could take “something ridiculous” to get on the podium at this summer’s London Games. The American 2004 Olympic 100m champion has been enjoying a good spell this season – since returning from from a lengthy suspension – and he said a sub 9.70s might very well be needed to win a medal in London. “I’m thinking about... 

Olympic bronze medallist Walter Dix sounded his own warning ahead of this summer’s London Olympic Games with a wind-aided 9.85 seconds to take the invitational 100m at the 2012 Mt. SAC Relays on Saturday. The American was pushed slightly by a wind of +2.4 m/s, but his move in the second part of the race shows that his training is right on schedule for the busy summer. Dix made a decision to switch... 

Bershawn Jackson has hit back at Great Britain’s star hurdler Dai Greene after the reigning world champion took a swipe at the American 400m hurdlers for failing to medal last summer in Daegu, Korea. American 400m hurdler Bershawn Jackson in action at Pre-Classic PHOTOS/ Randy Miyazaki “Greene said ‘he knew we weren’t going to medal; we were too overrated,” Jackson was quoted... 

American 2004 Athens Olympic Games champion Jeremy Wariner won the men’s 400-metres dash at the Texas State Invitational on Saturday. Wariner, who is using the early meetings as tune up for the U.S. Olympic trials later this year, clocked 45.64 seconds in a dominating performance to win the event on the day. The former Baylor star, running his first individual 400 of the season, was however,... 

In this month’s issue of Esquire magazine, there’s a great read on the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt. What made the piece so fascinating and enlightening was this paragraph: “Ethan Siegel, a theoretical astrophysicist at Lewis & Clark College, recently charted a graph to demonstrate that, judging by the incremental progression of the 100-meter world record over the... 

Villanova taught Sean Tully how to be an engineer, but his greatest lesson on structural wear and tear didn’t take place in a classroom. The former Syosset High School track star can look back now and see where he went wrong. But a professional career that could culminate at the 2012 Olympic Games almost ended before it started, until he realized that even for the most dedicated among us,... 

America Lolo Jones all smiles after winning in Doha World Indoor Now, how long does it take one to learn a lesson? Ask Lolo Jones and she would tell you ‘a little over two hours’. After her near-to-catastrophic run in this afternoon’s semi-final when she qualified by virtue of just one hundredth of a second, Jones finally struck the perfect race. One she had been waiting for since her dramatic...