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Published on December 3, 2009 |

To understand where Caster Semenya’s interminable struggle for self-identity might end, it is necessary to go back to the beginning. Alone amid the scorched savannah of South Africa’s Limpopo province, where the physical horizons are endless and the personal ones less so, it becomes possible to see how far she has run already. In the…

Published on November 29, 2009 |

Melbourne, Australia – The W’s dominated the lead-up to the Great Australian Run. Sammy Wanjiru, Olympic marathon champion, World Marathon Majors champion, World record holder in the Half Marathon and Benita Willis, Australia’s only World Cross Country champion, hogged the publicity. Surprisingly, a third ‘W’ came through on the day, Austria’s Gunther Weidlinger upstaging Wanjiru,…

Published on November 28, 2009 |

Come December 14 when the Jamaican athletes who returned adverse findings at the National Track and Field Championships in June complete their three-month bans, they will be free and clear to run, as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has decided not to pursue the matter any further. In October, WADA requested the case files of…

Published on November 27, 2009 |

LONDON (AP) — Tim Montgomery says he started taking performance-enhancing drugs because he wanted to beat American sprint rival Maurice Greene and become the fastest man in the world. The former 100-meter world-record holder, who also said he and former partner Marion Jones stored their steroids in the refrigerator “next to the vegetables,” spoke to…

Published on November 27, 2009 |

The Bolivian city of Sucre, the constitutional capital of the South American country, was the venue of the 16th “Juegos Bolivarianos” (22-26 November), where Ecuadorian Hugo Chila was the best performer of the competition winning gold in the Triple Jump and silver in the Long Jump; he set national records in both events. A silver…

Published on November 26, 2009 |

Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones, at one time the world’s fastest couple, were so relaxed about their use of performance-enhancing drugs that, according to Montgomery, they kept their drugs in the fridge “next to the vegetables”. And Montgomery tended to keep his syringes “under a pile of clothes”. From his prison in Alabama, where he…

Published on November 26, 2009 |

Source: hindustantimes.com Usain Bolt walked away with the Athlete of the Year award at the 2009 World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo last weekend and I am glad my colleague on the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council and Jamaica Olympic Association secretary-general Neville McCook introduced me to the world sprint champion. I am…

Published on November 25, 2009 |

Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, the world’s two fastest men ever over 100 meters, will race in New York, London and Brussels next year, athletics sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The sources said former world record holder Asafa Powell would take part in the European races and could join the pair in New York. New…

Published on November 24, 2009 |

Triple Olympic and World Championships gold medallist, Usain Bolt, is all set to host several international athletes at the Bolt 9.58 SuperParty on December 5 at Richmond Estate, St Ann. Heading the list is American sprinter Wallace Spearmon, Bolt’s friendly rival at the 200-metre distance. So far, other international athletes who have agreed to come…

Published on November 22, 2009 |

MONTE-CARLO: Barbadian World 110m hurdles champion, Ryan Brathwaite, says the World record will be his target next season. “I’m aiming for the World record,” he quickly noted. “I’m going back to the drawing board and repairing the things that need to be fixed,” he added, but when asked if it is not too early to…

Published on November 22, 2009 |

KINGSTON: World-renowned sprint coach Stephen Francis, on Thursday, said that the relationship between the Jamaican Government and the nation’s athletes need to be “symbiotic and not parasitic”. Francis, founder/director and head coach of MVP Track & Field Club, the home of Asafa Powell, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Melaine Walker, Shericka Williams, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter,…

Published on November 21, 2009 |

Antiguan sprinter Daniel Bailey, the training partner of Jamaican Usain Bolt, has started legal proceedings against Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet which erroneously published an articles claiming he failed a drug test during this summer’s World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Bailey’s manager Cubie Seegobin confirmed the defamation case had been filed with the Swedish Press Council on…