2008
27
Dec
Relish the memories - 2008 was a special year for sport, and the outlook for the next few does not appear half so rosy.
Next year is thin in terms of big international events. The World Athletics Championships take place in Berlin, and it is left to rugby union - a minority sport globally - [...]
2008
8
Dec
BOLT… only 22 years old and has 10 years to chase money
Chasing money on the European circuit will not be among the top priorities of the 2008 IAAF male Athlete of the Year Usain Bolt, next season. That’s the word from track and field agent, Ricky Simms, who has been managing the affairs of [...]
2008
20
Nov
Triple Olympic gold medal winner, Usain Bolt, is to stop over in Germany on his way to the International Associations of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF’s) Gala event in Monaco to take up offers for specialised driving lessons from auto makers BMW.
The 22-year-old, who left the island yesterday, was given a “fully loaded” custom made BMW M3 [...]
2008
5
Oct
SEVERAL members of Jamaica’s 2008 medal-winning Olympics team were yesterday honoured in a special ceremony and awarded with the country’s fifth highest national honour, the Order of Distinction, Commander and Officer Class.
In a classic 45-minute-long exercise witnessed by scores of excited Jamaicans, athletes Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Melaine Walker, Dwight Thomas, [...]
2008
26
Sep
Filed under: Americas
The world’s fastest man, Jamaican gold medalist Usain Bolt, visited David Letterman last night, and Letterman asked Bolt why he didn’t run hard through the finish line instead of slowing down at the end of the 100-meter dash:
“Before the finish line you’re dancing and whirling around and flapping your arms in celebration,” Letterman said. “Now that’s not technique. That’s something different from running technique, isn’t it?”
Bolt tried to make a joke that he wanted to fly, but Letterman wouldn’t let it go.
“But maybe if you had finished the race and then celebrated, maybe your world records would have been even lower,” Letterman said.
Bolt then made a tacit acknowledgment of what many have speculated about: He might have actually wanted to slow down so as not to set a world record so low that even he can’t break it.
“That’s true, but then it would take me a long while to get there again,” Bolt said. “So I was being smart when I slowed down.”
I like Bolt and love the fact that he made track and field more interesting during the Olympics, but I’m with Letterman: He should go all out through the finish line.
2008
13
Sep
MIAMI, USA (CMC) - American Olympic legend Carl Lewis has raised stern doubts over Usain Bolt’s recent stunning performances but has stopped short of accusing the Jamaican sprint marvel of doping.In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Lewis also lashed out at Jamaica’s drug-testing programme, saying that it too needed to be examined in light of [...]
2008
13
Sep
Carl Lewis won nine gold medals in four Olympic Games and is considered by many to be the greatest track and field athlete of all time.And while Lewis is impressed with Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who won three gold medals and set three world records in Beijing, he’s also skeptical that Bolt is doing it without the benefit of performance-enhancing drugs.
Steroid Nation passes along this quote from the London Times, which apparently began with a Sports Illustrated interview Lewis conducted:
“When people ask me about Bolt I say he could be the greatest athlete of all time. But for someone to run 10.03 one year and 9.69 the next, if you don’t question that in a sport that has the reputation it has right now, you’re a fool. Period.”
It’s a shame that athletes like Ben Johnson, Marion Jones and the entire East German athletic program of the 1970s and 1980s make us feel this way, but Lewis is right: There’s no proof that Bolt used steroids, but you’re a fool if you don’t at least acknowledge that it’s possible.
2008
5
Sep
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Usain Bolt rallied against cold, wind and Asafa Powell to win the 100 meters in 9.77 seconds Friday at the Van Damme Memorial.
Running against a strong headwind in his season finale, the three-time Olympic champion had a bad start and watched Powell go ahead. But Bolt pulled even with [...]
2008
5
Sep
TWO-time world championship medallist, hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London has sought to clear her name following a report by SportsIllustrated.com this week which linked her to performance-enhancing drug in 2006.
In a letter received by the Observer bearing Ennis-London’s name, the two-time Olympian explained that she never used any banned substance.
The article, co-written by Luis Fernando Llosa [...]
2008
4
Sep
Usain Bolt will run the 100 metres in the fastest field ever assembled at the Van Damme Memorial tomorrow, seeking to break the world record for the third time this season.
The Olympic champion will face Asafa Powell, the former record-holder who matched the second fastest 100 of all time on Tuesday, and Tyson [...]