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The irrepressible Bolt, paraded around the King Baudouin stadium in a convertible car at the start of the meeting, glided round the bend of the newly laid track before cantering over the finish line to beat the previous best of American Tyson Gay in 2006.
Tags: Sanya Richards, golden league, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele, Carl Edwards, league meeting, Brussels, european meeting, Atlanta
On the last day of the Golden League season, the Van Damme Memorial will see Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele and Sanya Richards compete for the $1 million jackpot. The prize goes to anyone who wins all six of the premier European meets. If more than...
Tags: Kenenisa Bekele, Usain Bolt, Van Damme Memorial, golden league, league meeting
The presence of Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt has guaranteed that the fifth of the six-leg Golden League on Friday (today) will be a sell-out after his treble world gold medal haul...Bolt, who set new world records in the 100 and 200m (9.58 and...
Tags: Jamaican Asafa Powell, Zurich, world records, golden league
Usain Bolt wowed the Stade de France last night, running 9.79 seconds – his season's best – in the pouring rain to set a 100 metres meet record in Paris. The Jamaican, who said his performance felt as if he was "flying", once again blew the field – and...
Tags: Usain Bolt of Jamaica, Kerron Stewart, Paris, golden league, league meeting, Rome, olympic champion, Isinbayeva, paris golden, champion usain
Bolt, gold medallists headline Jamaican world team Berlin, July 15: Triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt and three other individual Beijing winners headline the Jamaican team for next month's athletics world championships in Berlin, the international...
Tags: world record, gold medallists, triple olympic, Jamaican Usain Bolt, olympic gold, golden league
Sanya Richards of the USA set a year best time Friday in winning the 400m Golden League meeting at Oslo in 49.23sec. Richards is now gunning for the jackpot having already won the Golden League opener in 49.57sec in Berlin last month. "I've been feeling...
Tags: Sanya Richards, golden league
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep captured third spot Friday in the 100-metre hurdles event at the Golden League Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway. The native of Whitby, Ont., clocked a time of 12.78 seconds, which was just off the pace set by Damu Cherry of the United...
Tags: Asafa Powell, golden league, bislett games, Oslo, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep
Every now and then Sanya Richards looks in the mirror and pinches herself to make sure she's not dreaming. "This is the life I always wanted, the life I always dreamed about," said the St. Golden League series. "Sometimes I can't believe I am the same...
Tags: Sanya Richards, golden league
March that 12 meetings had already been confirmed for the Diamond League, with three more in Berlin, Rome and Doha to be decided on. The 2009 Golden League opened on Sunday in Berlin.
Tags: Berlin, golden league, Diamond League
Berlin, June 14: Russia's Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva won the women's pole vault competition at the Berlin Golden League meeting on Sunday, staking a claim for the USD 1 million jackpot for the winner of all six major meetings.
Tags: Berlin, golden league, Sanya Richards