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- Lagat books Beijing double while Felix takes 200 crown at US Athletics Trials
- EUGENE, Oregon AFP — World champion Bernard Lagat will chase a golden double in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at the Beijing Olympics. Allyson Felix and Jenn Stuczynski are just happy they are going to China next month. A tension-filled final Sunday of the US Olympic Track and Field...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- Powell itching to tackle Gay at 100m in London
- KINGSTON AFP — Former 100 metre world record holder Asafa Powell said he is eager to avenge his 2007 World Championships defeat to American Tyson Gay this summer. The two speedsters are down to meet at the London Grand Prix on July 25 and Powell said he is ready...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- Confident Lagat ready to follow El Guerrouj in Olympic double
- EUGENE, Oregon AFP — This time, Bernard Lagat would not mind following in Hicham El Guerrouj's footsteps. The retired four-time world 1,500-meter champion from Morocco won the 1,500 and 5,000 crowns at the 2004 Olympics with Lagat second at 1,500. Four years before at Sydney, El Guerrouj took 1,500...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- New medication gives Richards new hope for Olympics
- EUGENE, Oregon AFP — American 400-meter star Sanya Richards begins her bid to reach the Beijing Olympics here Sunday with confidence she will bounce back from an illness-related setback a year ago. The 23-year-old Jamaican-born sprinter missed the 2007 world championships at Osaka in her specialty after a fourth-place...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Jubilant golfer Murakami earns US Open slot
- TOKYO AFP — Artemio Murakami of the Philippines was celebrating on Tuesday after earning his ticket to this year's US Open, where he will make his Majors debut. Murakami birdied the last to clinch one of two berths, alongside Australian veteran Craig Parry, in the 36-hole qualifier at Ibaraki...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- China's Liu wins Japan GP 110m hurdles at canter
- OSAKA, Japan AFP — All-conquering Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang overcame wet and cold conditions here to easily win the men's 110-metre hurdles at the Japan Grand Prix Saturday with the Olympics only three months away. The 24-year-old Olympic and world champion, who also holds the world record of 12.88...
- Research articles 2008-05-10
- Gay headlines Jamaica International field
- KINGSTON AFP — World sprint double champion Tyson Gay, Olympic champions Veronica Campbell-Brown and Joanna Hayes and Sanya Richards headline the field for Saturday's Jamaica International Invitational athletics meeting. The Jamaica International is one of a select group of Area Permit meetings at which points can be acquired by...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Aussie Rawlinson eyes Japan as final Olympic training
- SYDNEY AFP — Australia's dual world champion Jana Rawlinson, troubled by a toe injury, said Monday she will spend the final three weeks of her lead-up to the Beijing Olympics training in Japan. The hurdler's training has been disrupted by the injury, which required surgery in January, forcing her...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Sprint world champion Gay to open season in Jamaica
- KINGSTON AFP — Double world sprint champion Tyson Gay will launch his 2008 Olympic athletics season at the Jamaica International Invitation meeting on May 3. Gay, who beat Bahamian Derrick Atkins and world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica for the 100m world title in Osaka last year, will...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Sisters in Japan hide millions in boxes: official
- TOKYO AFP — Japanese authorities on Tuesday arrested two sisters for allegedly hiding some 58 million dollars in cardboard boxes to evade tax on their inheritance, an official said. It was the largest sum of inheritance money ever concealed from authorities in Japan, said the official from the National...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Kluft still pondering Olympic title defence
- BIRMINGHAM, England AFP — Carolina Kluft again hinted here Friday she might abandon her attempt to defend her Olympic heptathlon title in August in order to concentrate solely on a single event at the Beijing Games. The Swede, who first suggested she was falling out of love with the...
- Research articles 2008-02-15
- China-born Li named top US athletics coach for guiding Lagat
- INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana AFP — James Li, the China-born coach of world 1,500m and 5,000m doubles champion Bernard Lagat, was named the USA Track and Field Coach of the Year, the US governing body announced Wednesday. Li, who was born in Chengdu and naturalized as a US citizen in 1998,...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- Athletics stars Gay and Defar take top IAAF awards
- MONACO AFP — World champion sprinter Tyson Gay of the United States and Ethiopian middle-distance starlet Meseret Defar were on Sunday named by athletics' world governing body, the IAAF, as the top athletes of 2007. Gay claimed a sprint double at the world championships in Osaka in August, and...
- Research articles 2007-11-25
- US win surprise victory over Brazil
- OSAKA, Japan AFP — The United States caused the biggest surprise in the women's World Cup volleyball tournament on Wednesday, beating world silver medall ists Brazil to remain undefeated with Italy. The American women, who have never won a major title, stormed back from two sets down to score...
- Research articles 2007-11-07
- Brazil, Italy, US undefeated at World Cup
- OSAKA, Japan AFP — World silver medallists Brazil powered past Peru in three sets on Tuesday, joining Italy and the United States as the undefeated teams in the women's World Cup volleyball tournament. The Brazilians, top favourites in the absence of world champions Russia, rallied to an easy 25-17,...
- Research articles 2007-11-06
- Japanese veteran haunted by WWII surgical killings
- OSAKA, Japan AFP — More than 60 years had passed, but Akira Makino still suffered nightmares about Filipino hostages and the injections that rendered them unconscious. Then there was the one about the surgical knife gouging a human liver. Every time he woke up to the flashbacks of horrific...
- Research articles 2007-10-28
- France's Keita banned for doping
- PARIS AFP — France's 400m hurdles Olympic bronze medallist Naman Keita was on Wednesday banned for two years after testing positive for testosterone. Keita failed the urine test at a training camp before the Osaka world athletics championships in August, leading to the ban handed out by the French...
- Research articles 2007-10-17
- Jepkosgei, Mulaudzi top line-up in Kenya meet
- NAIROBI AFP — Kenya's world 800m champion Janeth Jepkosgei and Olympic silver medallist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi of South Africa will be the main attractions at the second Tusker International athletics meet here on Saturday. Jepkosgei, in sparkling form since taking the world title in Osaka in August, may have a...
- Research articles 2007-09-27
- Richards romps to 400m glory
- STUTTGART, Germany AFP — Golden League jackpot winner Sanya Richards put in another commanding performance as the American picked up her third consecutive World Athletics Final win over 400metres here on Sunday. The 22-year-old, who picked up 500,000 dollars after this season's six Golden League wins, beat a strong...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- Powell delighted with Stuttgart 100 metres win
- STUTTGART, Germany AFP — World record holder Asafa Powell admitted he was delighted to dominate a strong field and win the 100 metres at the World Athletics Finals in Stuttgart on Saturday. The Jamaican came home in a time of 9.83seconds, just ahead of Norwegian Jaysuma Saidy Ndure who...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
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