Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will compete in a 150 metres street race in Manchester, England, on Sunday after recovering from a car accident, his agent said on Monday.
Olympic and World champion sprinter Usain Bolt said the final call on his participation in the Delhi event would be taken by his coach next summer.
If Jennifer, the mother of Usain Bolt, is to be believed the Olympic champion might be trying out something new at London two years from now.
The American sprint legend says the 400m challenge could provide the Jamaican the motivation to keep running beyond the 2012 Olympics.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt believes his first meeting of the season with compatriot Asafa Powell in Paris on Friday will produce the fastest 100 metres of the year.
India's badminton sensation Saina Nehwal was Thursday declared the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year for her stupendous show in 2009.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt's remaining 200 metres season may be in jeopardy because of a strained Achilles tendon, the Jamaican said on Wednesday.
Olympic 100m champion and world record holder Usain Bolt has agreed to be an ambassador at the August 14-26 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
Triple Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt will take part in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi said in Port of Spain.
Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will not compete in the New Delhi Commonwealth Games from Oct 3-14, coach Glen Mills told Reuters on Saturday.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt is on the road to recovery from a sore Achilles that kept him off the track for two weeks, the Jamaican said on Saturday.
Former world record holder Asafa Powell clocked the fastest time of the year when winning the 100 metres in 9.83 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on Thursday.
Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt opened his 100 metres season with the year's fastest time, clocking 9.86 seconds in Daegu, South Korea on Wednesday.
Triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt ran the fourth-fastest 200 metres of all-time with a blistering 19.56 second sprint in front of his home fans at the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday.
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.
A fatigued Usain Bolt will wait until this weekend to decide whether or not to compete in China and South Korea later this month, his agent told Reuters on Wednesday, rebuffing media reports the world's fastest man had cancelled his Asian trip.
Triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt will get an early look at the 2011 world championships site when he runs a 100 metres at Daegu, South Korea on May 19, his manager and organisers said on Monday.
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.
When Usain Bolt blazed to glory at the Beijing Olympics, he was feted as the hero his tainted sport had been crying out for. Now, having repeated them in Berlin, he can consider himself the saviour of the world championships. When the event was changed from four-yearly to biennial it lost much of its lustre, and to many fans became just another, slightly more glamorous extension of the Grand Prix circuit.
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.
Olympic and World Champion Usain Bolt, who has set his sights on the 300m record, has said his best is yet to come.
Kerley, hoping to be the first American winner since Justin Gatlin in 2004, ran brilliantly for second, with De Grasse finishing fast in another lifetime best.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran the fastest ever 150m on Sunday in a street race held in a chilly and windy Manchester City Centre. He came home in 14.35 seconds, beating the previous best recorded by Italian Pietro Mennea of 14.8 in 1983. Britain's Marlon Devonish was second in 15.07 seconds.
Kenyan Pamela Jelimo claimed the Golden League's $1 million jackpot on Friday, while fellow Olympic champion Usain Bolt beat Asafa Powell to win the 100 metres at the Memorial Van Damme meeting.
Usain Bolt continued his domination of the sprints with a comfortable 100 metres victory at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica suffered minor injuries on Wednesday when he crashed his BMW sports car on the outskirts of his Caribbean homeland's capital, authorities said. Bolt, 22, lost control of the high-powered vehicle and plowed into a ditch on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
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.
Usain Bolt will fine-tune his preparations for the Rio Olympics by competing at the Anniversary Games in London on July 22.
Renowned wax museum Madame Tussauds on Wednesday unveiled India captain Virat Kohli's statue at Lord's Cricket Ground in London to mark the launch of the ICC World Cup.
Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt should seriously consider running the 400 metres, Michael Johnson said on Monday.
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.
Triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt will switch his running spikes for cricket pads on Sunday when he takes part in a tournament in Jamaica. Bolt will play in a mini-tournament in Discovery Bay organised by West Indies captain Chris Gayle and featuring current and former players from the region.
Usain Bolt enthralled a capacity crowd in Brussels with his showmanship and stadium record on Friday, but said later he was missing Jamaica and seeking some respite.
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.
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.
Jamaica's triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt tore his own 200 metres world record to shreds in Berlin on Thursday, clocking 19.19 seconds in the final to complete a breathtaking sprint double at the world championships. Bolt, a day short of his 23rd birthday, made the most of a fast start to take a massive 0.11 seconds out of the previous record he had set winning gold at the Beijing Olympics -- a year ago to the day.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt shattered his own 200 metres world record in Berlin on Thursday to win gold at the world championships in a breathtaking 19.19 seconds and secure his place as the greatest sprinter ever seen. One year exactly after he posted 19.30 seconds at the Beijing Olympics to beat Michael Johnson's "untouchable" 19.32 from the Atlanta Games, he sliced another 11 hundredths of a second off just as he did in Sunday's 100 when he ran 9.58.
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
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