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by **Kermit** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:51 pm

"We just (have to) continue to run fast," Bolt said. "In a couple of years everyone will continue to watch again and have less doubts."

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/28092009/ ... e-nfl.html

by **shivfan** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:54 am

It's going to be interesting to see what times Bolt can clock when he gets a full training programme in place for 2010....

by **Kermit** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:53 pm

Shivfan this is for you.

http://usainsuperparty.com/

This is what I like to see from our sport. Athletes doing their best to help the under privileged

by **Kermit** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:59 am

KINGSTON: – Jamaica’s most decorated female sprinter, Veronica Campbell-Brown, says doctors have identified another infected toe on her left foot. Since April, Campbell-Brown who has five Olympic medals, including back-to-back 200m victories in Athens (2004) and Beijing, had only identified one infected toe on her left foot, which kept her out of training for five weeks.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=3887

by **shivfan** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:25 am

Yeah, it's good to see Bolt doing his little bit to address the issue of poverty in Jamaica....

Pity about VCB. She probably needs to take a break to deal with her foot problems, and hopefully she'll come back stronger next year. I can't help feeling that her time at the top may just be slipping away.

by **Kermit** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:16 am

The parents and sister of one of the group's top runners, Leila Aman, who were also the mother and father in law to 2008 Boston Marathon and Houston Marathon champion Dire Tune, were shot and killed by Aman's brother in-law. The incident has forced some of the runners to stop training during a period of mourning.

http://www.universalsports.com//ViewArt ... =204807939

by **Kermit** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:29 pm

KINGSTON: The controversy surrounding the six MVP Track Club athletes who missed the Jamaica team’s mandatory training camp in Nuremberg, Germany ahead of the start of the championships in Berlin could soon reach the disciplinary committee.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=4045

by **SteveK26** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:30 pm

I wonder if they will be available for the Commonweath Games? Not that it will affect Jamaica cleaning up on all sprints anyway.Nice to have such strength in depth.

by **shivfan** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:42 am

Given that Sherri-Ann Brooks won the 100 at the last CG, that wouldn't be a major punishment, considering that quite a few Jamaican women athletes chose to miss the last CG....

If the JAAA has any sense, they would settle for a reprimand. Unfortunately, the JAAA doesn't always act sensibly.

by **Kermit** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:15 am

lol @ Shivfan, the same can be said for their government.

by **Javelin Sam** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:02 pm

it's like back in the dark ages when man thought that the world was flat...

apparently there is only JAMAICA overseas....

no news from anywhere else? how's GAY's groin doing after that all important surgery?? how's the chinese 110mH feeling after a year out of the sport?

by **Kermit** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:43 pm

Sam as soon as I know, so will you and everyone else. But if you have any information - bring it come!

by **shivfan** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:54 am

Yes Sam, feel free to post your own links....
:wink:

We can't expect Kermit to do everything!

by **Kermit** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:38 pm

NASSAU, Bahamas: World Championships 200m bronze medallist, Bahamian Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, has decided only to run the half lap event at major championships.

She, however, was quick to make it clear that she will continue to run the 100m on the circuit.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=4163

by **jjimbojames** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:19 pm

^^^ A sensible move IMO. She's getting on now (cue the 'Linford won an OG in his 30's brigade...' :wink:

) and no way is she getting to the 10.6s in one race, let alone after rounds. The 200m has yet to be affected by this improvement and she's likely to be in the mix for medals if she can keep her own form, and if fresh compared to say VCB or Kerron who may well double

by **Kermit** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:29 pm

Bahamas: Journalist, Brent Stubbs of the Tribune, reports that 38-year-old Bahamian, Chandra Sturrup, is thinking about leaving the sport in which she has served her country with distinction.

The highlight of this service must be her back to back sprint relay gold medals first at the World Championships in Seville, 1999 and at the Sydney Olympics the following year.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=4168

For me Sturrup has been a great ambassador for both the sport and her country

by **Kermit** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:59 pm

KINGSTON — Triple Olympic and World champion and world record holder Usain Bolt has not completely ruled out running at next year’s Commonwealth Games, but again said he will leave the final say to his coach Glen Mills.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=4196

by **Kermit** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:18 pm

he International Olympic Committee has been granted observer status by the United Nations general assembly, it was announced today.

The UN general Assembly has also adopted a resolution to observe the Olympic Truce at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and welcomed the first staging of the football World Cup in Africa, in South Africa next year, in another resolution.

http://www.insidethegames.biz/index.php ... &Itemid=73

by **Kermit** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:56 am

INDIANAPOLIS – The international statistics website All-Athletics.com has ranked American men and women athletes among the world’s best at middle distance running events for the 2009 season.

In rankings announced on Wednesday, All-Athletics.com ranked American women #1 in the world at middle distance running (800m-1,500m), with U.S. men ranked #2 globally.

The overall breakdown shows American women leading the world with 7,655 points, followed by Great Britain (2nd – 7,642 points), Russia (3rd – 7,612 points), Kenya (4th – 7,275 points) and Poland (5th – 7,234 points).

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=4249

The mentioned website is a subscription based website and shows that British women were ranked top in in the 800m - congratulations

by **Kermit** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:05 pm

MIAMI, Fla. — American sprinter Tyson Gay successfully completed surgery on his injured groin, his manager revealed on Saturday.

Gay, the 100 metres world silver medallist underwent a minor surgery on both sides of his groin in Philadelphia on Friday and his manager Mark Wetmore said he should be able to walk on Saturday.

http://www.world-track.org/?p=6154

by **lsabre** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:05 pm

Which, in turn, comes to silence those maintaining over various forums that Tyson Gay was feigning being injured ouf of fear of losing at the World Champs.... Hasty assessments once again?

by **shivfan** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:50 pm

Kermit wrote:KINGSTON — Triple Olympic and World champion and world record holder Usain Bolt has not completely ruled out running at next year’s Commonwealth Games, but again said he will leave the final say to his coach Glen Mills.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=4196

Yeah, if he does run, it will probably only be in the 200, or maybe the 400, if he chooses to take that on....

by **SteveK26** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:21 pm

They say the Commonwealths are the FUN GAMES , and wouldn't it be fun to see Mr. Bolt turn up for the 400!!!

by **jambob** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:47 pm

Olympic hurdles medallist Sally McLellan to try her hand at the heptathlon.

http://www.athletics.com.au/news/news/2 ... w_challeng

by **Kermit** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:27 am

Asafa Powell interview

http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do ... o_id=17022

by **Kermit** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:45 pm

European Triple Jump champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia has decided to skip the next indoor season following further surgery on her Achilles tendon in Finland.

http://www.european-athletics.org/index ... 7&Itemid=2

by **Kermit** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:59 pm

New York, USA – The 40th running of the ING New York City Marathon will start on Sunday (1 Nov) morning at 9:10 U.S. eastern time when the professional women leave the Staten Island end of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, bound for Brooklyn; the professional men will follow 30 minutes later. By noontime, New York will have two new champions and a round four-decade history.

http://www.iaaf.org/LRR09/news/newsid=54795.html

STREAM http://t1w2q.tk

by **shivfan** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:50 pm

Here's an interesting story on SAF....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... kable.html

"These days, now in her neat apartment in a more salubrious area of town, Fraser is still up at 4.30am to slave through coach Stephen Francis's murderous training sessions before studying at college for her child care and development degree and then jetting back to the track again or weights room."

by **Kermit** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:54 pm

Relaxation, in Tyson Gay's estimation, may be the crucial missing ingredient for U.S. sprint relay teams of late.

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/asset/ ... _4x1s.html

by **shivfan** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:21 pm

Glen Mills has stepped down as Jamaica's national coach....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8347802.stm

He will focus more on his club, Track Racers, and coaching Bolt.

I think this is a good move, because in his role as national coach, it could be argued that his position represented a conflict of interest with his role as coach of track Racers. It probably led to a worsening of relations with Stephen Francis/MVP and the JAAA, which took the form of Mills in his role as national coach.

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