American world indoor 60m favourite Ivory Williams has withdrawn from this weekend’s IAAF championships because of a positive test for marijuana, his manager said on Wednesday. “He had a marijuana positive,” Ray Flynn said in a telephone call from the United States. “To the best of my knowledge it was at the US championships,” Flynn added. With the positive, Williams was... 

Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados, the reigning World Outdoor 110m hurdles champion, leads an all-star list of international hurdlers scheduled to compete at the 2010 Reebok Boston Indoor Games on Feb. 6, organizers announced today.   He will be joined in the men’s race by Ladji Docouré, a former World Outdoor Champion in the high hurdles. Brathwaite, the first World Champion ever from Barbados, upstaged... 

By Gary Smith, World-Track PARIS — Usain Bolt says he is not one bit concerned with those skeptical about his abilities to break world records without the use of enhancing substances. The towering Jamaican resurrected the sprinting fraternity at the Beijing Olympic Games last summer, when exploded to world record times to win the men’s 100m and 200m. His meteoric rise to stardom, which... 

American Olympic sprint legend Carl Lewis has been hit by some hard criticism from the Caribbean Track and Field Forum after comments he made during an interview on a British website. Lewis questioned the sudden rise to stardom of Usain Bolt, who he argued improved a bit too quickly from 10.00seconds in the 100m to a world record of 9.69seconds in just one year of running the event. Some of the comments...