Sports / Athletics

Bolt wraps up golden season with victory 07 Sep 2013 - 02:34 am

BRUSSELS: Jamaican track star Usain Bolt wrapped up another gold-laden season at the season-ending Diamond League meet yesterday with victory in 9.80sec in...

Athletics: Bolt bids for season swansong in Brussels 06 Sep 2013 - 04:15 am

BRUSSELS: Usain Bolt (pictured) will seek a final flourish to bring down the curtain on another season where he confirmed himself as the...

Bolt mulls retirement after 2016 Olympics 05 Sep 2013 - 12:55 am

BRUSSELS: Jamaican track star Usain Bolt is considering retiring after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he said yesterday. But any plans...

Athletics: Sprinter Johnson to revisit scene of global disgrace 02 Sep 2013 - 11:49 pm

SEOUL: Disgraced drugs cheat Ben Johnson (pictured) will revisit the scene of his downfall this month, wrapping up a global anti-doping tour in...

Bekele sets sights on Great North Run, Rio marathon 02 Sep 2013 - 12:07 am

SULULTA, Ethiopia: Ethiopian track legend Kenenisa Bekele said yesterday he was still a long way off from thinking of retirement and is instead...

Bolt sprints to Zurich victory 31 Aug 2013 - 01:10 am

Spectators get autographs from Usain Bolt of Jamaica, as he celebrates winning the men’s 100 metres at the Weltklasse Diamond League athletics meeting...

Disgraced sprinter Johnson leads anti-doping cause 31 Aug 2013 - 01:07 am

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price of Jamaica celebrates with the mascot, after winning the 200 metres. LONDON, England: Disgraced drugs cheat Ben Johnson has resurfaced as...

Bolt not worried about failure in Rio 29 Aug 2013 - 12:33 am

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt poses after a news conference during his visit to the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, yesterday. ZURICH: Usain Bolt is...

Merritt eases to victory as world champions shine 24 Aug 2013 - 12:34 am

Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman celebrates after winning the 1,500M during the IAAF Diamond League track and field contest at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm,...

Isinbayeva wants to leave ‘decayed’ home town for Monaco 23 Aug 2013 - 04:27 am

MOSCOW: Russia’s pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva (pictured), who last week stoked controversy by voicing strong support of recent anti-gay laws, declared she...

Two Russian gold medallists astonished by new claims 20 Aug 2013 - 11:56 pm

FROM LEFT: Tatyana Firova, Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina and Kseniya Ryzhova of the Russian women’s 4x400 metres relay team pose during the IAAF...

Controversy tarnishes the country’s glory 20 Aug 2013 - 11:45 pm

MOSCOW: Russia basked in the glory of its triumph at the World Athletics Championships but the event was shadowed by a controversy over...

Golden hat-trick for Bolt, Fraser-Pryce in Moscow 19 Aug 2013 - 01:38 am

FROM LEFT: Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade and Usain Bolt of the Gold medallists Jamaica pose during the victory ceremony for the...

Superstar Bolt receives ‘amazing’ lightning photo 19 Aug 2013 - 01:25 am

AFP photographer Oliver Morin (left) gives Jamaica’s Usain Bolt a print of a picture he took of him during the 100m final prior...

Swede protester has nails revarnished after IAAF warning 19 Aug 2013 - 01:24 am

MOSCOW: Swedish high jumper Emma Green-Tregaro (pictured) has repainted her nails after being warned by the IAAF that the rainbow colours she sported...

Bolt bags third world 200M title 18 Aug 2013 - 12:58 am

Winner Usain Bolt of Jamaica takes pictures after the Men’s 200 metres final during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki Stadium...

Farah and Fraser-Pryce seal world track doubles 17 Aug 2013 - 12:23 am

Britain’s Mo Farah celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the men’s 5,000m final at the 14th IAAF World Championships at Luzhniki...

US still men’s 4x400 relay kings 17 Aug 2013 - 12:23 am

MOSCOW: World 400 metres champion LaShawn Merritt anchored an emphatic American men’s 4x400 metres relay triumph yesterday, a year after they were stunned...