Usain Bolt streaks to 200m silver
OSAKA, Japan: NATIONAL 200 METRES champion Usain Bolt buried the demons of 2005 to win a silver medal in the men's 200m final at the 11th IAAF World Champion-ships here yesterday. Bolt, the man who stills holds the world junior record for the distance, clocked 19.91 seconds...
Australian hurdler powers way to second world title
OSAKA, Japan (Reuters): JANA RAWLINSON stormed to victory in the women's 400 metres hurdles yesterday to become only the second Australian to win two world titles.The 24-year-old outpaced defending champion Yuliya Nosova over the last 200m to reclaim the title ...
Saladino leaps to victory
OSAKA, Japan (Reuters): IRVING SALADINO claimed Panama's first World Championship gold medal with a dramatic last-gasp victory in the men's long jump yesterday. Saladino took the gold medal with the final leap of the competition in Osaka, soaring 8.57...
'Strange' win for German
OSAKA, Japan (Reuters): GERMAN POLICEWOMAN Betty Heidler won a surprise gold in the women's hammer at the World Championships yesterday. Heidler won her first major title with her second throw of 74.76 metres, just two centimetres more than twice world...
Take Tocumen
Big bucks are in store at Caymanas Park tomorrow for any punter good enough to win the mushrooming Pick-9. The carryover stands at a whopping $7.6 million. The Pick-9 embraces races two to 10 while the Super-6 covers races five to 10. Wednesday's Super-6 was caught...
Equine flu halts racing in Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia (AP):ONE OF Australia's biggest race meets - the Sydney spring carnival - was postponed indefinitely after eight of 10 horses from a stable at Randwick race course tested positive yesterday for equine influenza. Ian Macdonald, primary...
Hong's suspension dropped, but fines remain
The Jamaica Racing Commission, on August 16 heard an appeal by trainer Jackson Hong against the fines and suspension for the positive tests returned by CIRCLE DROME on two separate race days, May 28, 2005 and June 11, 2005, both for the prohibited substance ...
Roddick not happy with win
NEW YORK (AP): MARTINA HINGIS broke her pattern, Svetlana Kuznetsova pounded away and Andy Roddick won but wasn't happy yesterday in reaching the third round of the U.S. Open. After Hingis and 106th-ranked Pauline Parmentier of France traded six straight service breaks...
Reggae Boyz to go for big guns in Colombia friendly
JAMAICA'S REGGAE Boyz are expected to go for their big guns when the team travels to face Colombia in an international friendly next month. While final negotiations are still ongoing, the outing booked for the September 12 FIFA international match date...
FROM THE BOUNDARY - The president is the man - remember that
THINGS ARE happening so fast in West Indies cricket that one can hardly keep up with them. On the field, for example, apart from the many players who have represented the West Indies since 2000, in Brian Lara, Jimmy Adams, Carl Hooper, Ridley Jacobs,...
Broad steers England to victory
MANCHESTER, England (AP): STUART BROAD took a career best 4-51, then combined for a 99-run eighth-wicket stand to help England to a three-wicket win over India at Old Trafford yesterday in the fourth one-day international.Broad hit the winning run to reach the target...
Five WI players on list for renegade Indian League
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: FIVE WEST Indian cricketers - other than former captain Brian Lara - have been approached by the Indian Cricket League (ICL) to take part in their inaugural season. This was revealed by a source close to the West Indies team...
Platini looks to remodel Champions League
MONTE CARLO (Reuters): UEFA PRESIDENT Michel Platini wants to give domestic cup winners a place in the Champions League.Confirming a Reuters report, Platini said he would seek approval from the executive committee of European soccer's governing body in October ...
Records set to tumble at Olympics in Beijing - England coach
BANGKOK (Reuters):WORLD RECORDS will tumble in unprecedented numbers at next year's Olympics in Beijing, with the swimming world gearing up for the fastest and fiercest Games yet, according to Britain's head coach Bill Sweetenham.Sweetenham, who coached...
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