May 24, 2013

Track and Field: Bolt, Felix win 2012 athlete of the year awards

Jamaica's double Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt stikes a pose while inaugurating a Puma store in Barcelona

(Reuters) – Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix were named male and female athlete of the year respectively by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at a ceremony in Barcelona on Saturday. Jamaican Bolt, who retained his 100 and 200 meters titles in London in August, is the first man to win the [...]

Bolt and Pearson named Athletes of the Year

Pearson of Australia, and Bolt of Jamaica, pose with their IAAF Athlete of the Year awards in Monte Carlo

(Reuters) – Jamaican Usain Bolt and Australian Sally Pearson were named Athletes of the Year by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Saturday. Bolt, winning the award for the third time, bounced back from disqualification for false starting in the world 100 meters final to retain his 200m title, before anchoring Jamaica to [...]

Blake works harder than me, but won’t take 200 title: Bolt

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Usain Bolt of Jamaica sprints to victory and a new world record in the men’s 4×100 metres relay final during day nine of 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships at Daegu Stadium on September 4, 2011 in Daegu, South Korea. (September 3, 2011 – Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images AsiaPac) (Reuters) – Usain Bolt gave a [...]

Argument erupts over Radcliffe’s marathon record

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(Reuters) – Marathon bodies opposed on Tuesday a move by the governing IAAF to reclassify Paula Radcliffe’s 2003 women’s world record and replace it with a slower time. The International Association of Athletics Federations agreed in Daegu, South Korea, last month to acknowledge as women’s world records only those times set in all-women competitions. Performances [...]