DES MOINES – LaShawn Merritt admits that Kirani James was the better man on the day after the American was beaten in the Rio Olympic Games Preview Men’s 400m by the Grenadian at the 2016 Drake Relays on Friday night.
Kirani James ran a world-leading 44.08 seconds to beat rival LaShawn Merritt and win the Rio Olympics Preview men’s 400m at the 2016 Drake Relays presented by Hy-Vee in Des Moines, IA.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – World Indoor 60m hurdles sprint champion Omar McLeod sizzled to a stunning personal best of 9.99 seconds to win the men’s 100m at the Arkansas John McDonnell Outdoor Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday (23).
WACO, TX – Olympic gold medallist Asafa Powell continued his Rio 2016 preparations with a victory over the 200m at the 2016 Michael Johnson Invitational here at Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium on Saturday night (23).
NEW YORK – Usain Bolt says he is still behind on his fitness, but is confident about being ready to defend his Olympic Games sprint title in Rio, later this summer.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake says he’s grown into a different path and no longer wishes to be cited as “The Beast.”
NASSAU, Bahamas – Jeremy Wariner says he was encouraged by his performance at the Chris Brown Invitational this week and expects to run faster soon.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Former World champion Yohan Blake clocked a world-leading 9.95 seconds to win the men’s 100m dash at the 2016 MVP Track & Field Meeting inside the National Stadium in Kingston on Sunday.
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa, Sporting Alert – Caster Semenya was left in excitement after she became the first South African athlete to complete a clean sweep of the 400m/800m/1500m triple at the 2016 South Africa Senior Championships.
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic – Olympic Pole Vault champion Renaud Lavillenie and the World champion Shawn Barber have both been confirmed to battle at the 2016 Golden Spike – IAAF World Challenge meeting in Ostrava on 20 May, organizers said.
KINGSTON – World silver medallist Elaine Thompson believes her indoor experience this season will play a massive a part of her preparations for the Rio Olympics later this summer.
After posting the Olympic qualifying standard earlier this week, South Africa’s middle-distance star runner Caster Semenya is now targeting to go below two-minutes for the 800m in her next race.
South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk has done something no other sprinter in history has ever done. Something that not even the man labeled as the greatest sprinter of all-time, Usain Bolt, has done before.
Akani Simbine improved his own South African men’s 100m record after flashing to 9.96 seconds at the ASA Nite Series in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Australian rising star Luke Mathews failed to upstage world record holder David Rudisha in the men’s 800m, but the 20-year-old recorded the mark he needed to earn a place to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the IAAF Melbourne World Challenge on Saturday.
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