Jamaican Usain Bolt capped a remarkable year by storming to victory in the 200 metres at the World Athletics Final on Sunday.
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David Beckham will take centre stage when the Olympic flag is handed to London at Sunday's closing ceremony in Beijing. Beckham, whose popularity in China dwarfs that of even record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps or sprint sensation Usain Bolt, will take part in London 2012's eight-minute slot in the Games finale designed to showcase the next host city.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt won 100 meters gold at the Beijing Olympics in a world record time on Saturday, running 9.69 seconds to claim victory in an exhilarating showdown with his compatriot Asafa Powell.
World record holder Usain Bolt barely broke sweat despite the sweltering temperatures to cruise through the Olympic 100 metres heats along with compatriot Asafa Powell and world champion Tyson Gay on Friday.
World 100 and 200 metres champion Usain Bolt is also fixing his sights on the long jump. Long jump world record holder Mike Powell said last Friday that Jamaican Bolt could jump nine metres in the event.
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Usain Bolt made it three out of three as he helped Jamaica claim gold in the 4x100 metres relay at the world championships on Saturday in the second-fastest time ever run.
Former world record holder Asafa Powell won his third consecutive 100 metres race of the season at the Monaco Grand Prix on Monday in his last major meeting before the Beijing Olympics starting next week. The Jamaican Commonwealth champion clocked 9.82 seconds, his best time this year. Only compatriot Usain Bolt, who took the world record from Powell on May 31, and American world champion Tyson Gay have run faster in 2008.
Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the 100 metres at a Paris Golden League meeting on Friday in 9.79 seconds, recording his best time of the season despite a poor start in damp, chilly conditions.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
The American was due to face world record holder Usain Bolt and fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell in front of a capacity 50,000 crowd.
Asafa Powell equalled the second fastest time ever over 100 metres when he clocked 9.72 seconds at the Lausanne grand prix.
Noah Lyles always wanted to be the next great sprinter after Usain Bolt retired and the 20-year-old American took a big step toward that goal with the year's fastest 100 metres at the US Championships in Iowa on Friday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Usain Bolt collected his third Olympic gold medal when he helped Jamaica smash the world record to win the men's 4x100 meters relay on Friday.
A world record pole vault for Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva and an electrifying 800 meters run by 18-year-old Kenyan Pamela Jelimo lit up the Bird's Nest Stadium on Monday evening.
Shelly-Ann Fraser surged to Jamaica's first Olympic women's 100 metres gold medal on Sunday and led compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart to the event's first national podium sweep.
Jamaica's Asafa Powell beat compatriot and world record holder Usain Bolt in the men's 100 metres at a Grand Prix meeting on Tuesday.
Usain Bolt, the 100 metres world record holder, ran the fastest time in the 200 this year, winning in 19.67 seconds, at the Athens Grand Prix on Sunday.
World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100 metres of all-time on Sunday, a wind-assisted 9.68 seconds to win the American trials.
World 100 meters record holder Usain Bolt defeated his closest rival Asafa Powell to qualify for the Beijing Olympics on Saturday. In what had been billed as the clash of the world's two fastest men, Bolt ran 9.85 to finish first in Jamaica's Olympic trials, while Powell, the former record holder, clocked 9.97 seconds.
The two fastest men in the world will go head-to-head on Saturday when world record holder Usain Bolt runs against Asafa Powell in the Jamaican Olympic trails.
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powered her way to 100 metres gold on Sunday to become the first person to win four gold medals over the distance at the athletics world championships.
Usain Bolt established himself as the fastest man on the planet on Saturday by setting a world record in the 100 metres. Now the 21-year-old Jamaican has his eyes on a bigger prize -- Olympic gold in athletics' blue ribband event.
Victor Conte, the man at the centre of what was the United States's biggest doping scandal, believes the latest drug scandal to rock the sports world is all part of a cover up to protect the bottom line.
Jamaica's triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt believes he can take the 100 metres world record down to 9.58 seconds and go below 19 seconds in the 200 metres.
On his first official visit to a member country after assuming office in August, world athletics chief Sebastian Coe urged India to promote track and field at the school level if it wants to excel on the international stage.
Usain Bolt, who shattered the world record each time to capture Olympic gold in the 100 metres, 200 and 4x100 relay, dismissed speculation his sudden rise to supremacy was aided by doping.
The American stayed on course for a world championship sprint double by qualifying fastest for the 200 metres final.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
World 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin said on Tuesday he is "shocked and surprised" at doping allegations made against his coach Dennis Mitchell, like Gatlin a convicted doper, but added that he sacked him as soon as he heard about the issue.
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Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, may continue competing until the 2017 world championships in London, the Jamaican has told the BBC.
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China picked up a first gold medal at their home world athletics championships when Liu Hong led Lu Xiuzhi across the line after the duo blew away the field in the women's 20 kilometre walk on Friday.
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Factbox on American Justin Gatlin who won the 100 metres gold at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday at the age of 35.
Part of Sebastian Coe's new job as head of world athletics will be to shift the conversation about his "ostensibly clean" sport from doping to spectacular performances, he said on Sunday.
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