World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has cancelled races in China and South Korea later this month and decided to bring his season to a close because of fatigue, the Jamaican wrote on his website on Friday.
Carl Lewis minces no words and is scathing in his opinion on giving all attention to recently-retired Usain Bolt
Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt won the 100 metres with a late surge at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting on Friday while Russian Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own world record in the women's pole vault.
Jamaican Usain Bolt shattered two world records and won three world championship gold medals in Berlin -- now he is ready to hit the clubs and the beach. Bolt, who raced almost daily in Berlin and was the biggest crowd-puller, demolished the 100 and 200 metres world records and helped Jamaica win the 4x100 relay on Saturday.
The world's fastest man Usain Bolt cruised to victory on Thursday in the 200-metres final at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, setting a World record in the process with a superhuman time of 19.19 seconds.
Usain Bolt is confident he will not be overwhelmed by emotion at the World Athletic Championships in London on Saturday and has his sights set firmly on signing off with victory.
Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt should seriously consider running the 400 metres, Michael Johnson said on Monday.
As the sprinter runs his last race, we veer off the trodden tourist trail in Jamaica and revisit his hometown, Trelawny Parish.
The West Indies Cricket Board is scrambling to get a team together for the first Test against Bangladesh, starting on Thursday, after the selected players decided to boycott the match due to contract disputes. The WICB has said the match would go ahead but has not stated whether it is recruiting an alernative team after Tuesday's boycott announcement.
Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt believes the tainted image athletics has acquired after several high-profile drugs cases in the past few years will clear as time goes by.
Triple Olympic and world champion sprinter Usain Bolt returned to his first love, cricket, and on Sunday he showed that he certainly knows how to handle both bat and ball.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle has stormed his way back to the number one place in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after a series of fine performances against New Zealand. The 29-year-old Jamaican has gained five places in the rankings to knock India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Australia's Michael Hussey down to second and third place respectively.
Dr. Ere Shesiah, chief consultant pathologist of the Jamaican government, told an inquest that Bob Woolmer "died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation associated with Cypermethrinide poisoning".
Triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt cruised to 200 metres victory in a Brussels Golden League meeting record on Friday while three athletes shared the final $1 million jackpot.
Usain Bolt is already a triple Olympic and world champion but he will not rest until he believes he has achieved the status of an athletics legend, the Jamaican said on Wednesday.
A gunman took 180 passengers on board a plane hostage at a Jamaican airport late on Sunday evening, but released all its passengers unharmed later, according to a CNN report.However, five crew members of the Canadian plane were still being held as hostages, airline officials said.A spokeswoman for the airport told CNN that the hostage crisis took place while a CanJet flight was taking off from Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay to Halifax, Canada.
A year ago Michael Johnson predicted Usain Bolt would probably break his then 12-year-old 200 metres world record, but not yet. An hour later he was eating his words as his 19.32 was taken by the Jamaican's 19.30. Johnson, this time, said on Thursday he thought Bolt was too tired to take it down further, only to watch stupefied as he took 11 hundredths off to complete a clean sweep of world and Olympic sprint titles, all secured with world record runs.
Triple Olympic champion Jamaican Usain Bolt cruised into the second round of the 200 metres at the world championships on Tuesday, 36 hours after shattering the 100m world record to win gold
The flying Jamaican took a massive 0.11 seconds off the previous record mark he ran to win the Olympic gold medal in Beijing one year ago to the day. That left defending champion Tyson Gay a distant second even though the American's time of 9.71 was the third-fastest ever. Asafa Powell of Jamaica was third in 9.84.
Images from Friday's IPL match between KKR and Delhi Capitals in Kolkata
'There is room for cautious optimism following the Harris anointment that America will return this year to more normal politics after the aberration of the Trump presidency,' points out Shreekant Sambrani.
The United States suffered a humiliating 5-0 defeat by Mexico in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup at Giants Stadium on Sunday.
World record holder Usain Bolt brought a flash of Jamaican sunshine to another miserable European evening when he raced to 100 metres victory in 9.91 seconds at the London Grand Prix on Friday.
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell believes his rivalry with the current number one Usain Bolt could mirror that of some of the great boxers -- if he can be bothered to build up the hype.
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell believes his rivalry with the current number one Usain Bolt could mirror that of some of the great boxers -- if he can be bothered to build up the hype.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt predicted on Tuesday he could reduce his own world 100 metres record to 9.54 seconds when the right opportunity comes.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle has recovered from a hamstring injury and been named in a 13-man squad for the first two one-day internationals against England in Guyana.
Asafa Powell will take on fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt over 100 metres in what should be the highlight of the London Grand Prix on July 24, organisers said on Wednesday.
Olympic champion Usain Bolt clocked the fourth fastest 200 metres time ever to win the Lausanne Grand Prix in 19.59 seconds in torrential rain on Tuesday.
Highly-rated 19-year-old batsman Adrian Barath has been named in the West Indies squad for Thursday's first Test against Bangladesh in St.Vincent.
West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor, who has officiated in a record 126 Tests, will retire from international matches in March.
The one-day cricket series between India and the West Indies has been put under "special swine flu surveillance" in view of the H1N1 virus spread in Kingston.
West Indies opening batsman Xavier Marshall has tested positive for a banned substance, a senior cricket board official said. Jamaican Marshall and Tonito Willett from Leeward Islands tested positive last month at a camp to pick the side to face England in the Stanford Twenty20 winner-take-all $20 million (11.1 million pound) match on November 1, a report said.
Jamaican 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell is not the world's best sprinter, retired 200 and 400 record holder Michael Johnson said. That honour, he said, goes to American world champion Tyson Gay. "Asafa Powell is a great talent but he can never get it done. He's failed time after time at the championships."
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says the next step in his side's development would be securing a trophy as they look to cap off a promising season by winning the Europa League. United, who finished third in the Premier League, hold a 5-0 lead over Austrian side LASK Linz heading into the second leg of their last-16 tie which will be played without fans at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
Usain Bolt continued his domination of the sprints with a comfortable 100 metres victory at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting.
Chris Gayle's swagger is unmatched, and the 'Universe Boss' shows no modesty or pretension when asked where he sees himself among the pantheons of greats in West Indies cricket. "I'm definitely up there. I'm definitely up there with the greats without a doubt," Gayle, who came for an interaction after a request from the travelling Indian media contingent, answered it in two straight sentences.
The three fastest men ever cruised through their opening 100 metres heats under clear blue skies at the start of the Olympic athletics programme on Friday.
Jamaican Usain Bolt has his sights set on smashing his already electrifying 100 metres world record, the triple Olympic champion said on Sunday. 'I think I could definitely go faster -- 9.5,' Bolt, whose record is 9.69 seconds, said. 'I think I could go 9.4, but I think the world stops at 9.4.'
West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect due to an illegal action. An independent analysis of Samuels' action by Mark King, a member of the cricket body's panel of human movement specialists, in London revealed that his off-break and fast deliveries exceeded the permitted 15 degrees level of tolerance.
