Athletics

Powell blasts back at Bolt with second-fastest 100m time

Asafa Powell equalled the second-fastest time over 100 metres when he clocked 9.72 seconds here last night.

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Governing body to get makeover with Collins' departure

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

The departure of Dave Collins was not the only parting of the ways announced by UK Athletics yesterday. The former Royal Marine will be leaving the domestic governing body of track and field and so will his job description. The post of performance director is to be replaced by that of head coach.

Collins leaves UK Athletics

Monday, 1 September 2008

UK Athletics have parted company with performance director Dave Collins.

Van Commenee to replace Collins in UK Athletics role

Monday, 1 September 2008

There were 7,003 souls braving the rain in the stands at Gateshead International Stadium yesterday and 18 Olympic medallists competing on the track and in the field, four of them British. There was, however, one notable absentee from the British Grand Prix, the post-Olympic meeting billed as "the return of the heroes". Dave Collins, the performance director of UK Athletics, was nowhere to be seen.

Rain fails to dampen Ohuruogu's sparkle

Monday, 1 September 2008

The rain poured down on Gateshead International Stadium yesterday, but there have been post-Olympic parades of a more dampened nature for British athletics teams. Back in 1976, there was just the one British medal winner to present to the capacity 15,000 crowd at the International Athletes' Club Coca Cola Invitation at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. Brendan Foster, third behind Lasse Viren and Carlos Lopes in the 10,000m in Montreal two weeks previously, won the two-mile race.

Bekele may be in his comfort zone but he is still streets ahead

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Effortless Ethiopian tops the bill at British Grand Prix

Ohuruogu needs time to reflect after one lap in the chariot of fire

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Christine Ohuruogu is not the first athlete to return to these shores as an Olympic 400 metres champion. Back in 1924, after riding his chariot of fire to one-lap glory at the Stade Colombes in Paris, Eric Liddell was mobbed at Waverley Station and borne through the streets of Scotland's capital on the shoulders of his fellow students from Edinburgh University. He had been born in China and returned there to join his father as a Christian missionary. He died in a Japanese internment camp in Weifang in 1945.

No fireworks, or lightning, but Bolt eases to another triumph

Saturday, 30 August 2008

At 8.59pm local time on a balmy Swiss evening here, the athlete in lane five settled into his starting blocks in the Letzigrund Stadion. The crowd, filling the compact arena to the brim of its 26,000 capacity, ceased their whistling, their roaring and their banging on the metal advertising hoardings and hushed to near silence. The starter's gun cracked the air and the men's 100m in the Weltklasse meeting was up and running. The Lightning Bolt was back in business.

Weltklasse encore gives Bolt chance to take a bow

Friday, 29 August 2008

A final snapshot before leaving Beijing on Tuesday: a young Chinese man in the Forbidden City pulling a "bow and arrow" pose for the benefit of his camera-clicking girlfriend. A welcoming picture from Zurich yesterday, from the meeting hotel for the Weltklasse, the first stop on the post-Olympic track and field circuit: Ricky Simms, manager of Usain Bolt, the Jamaican phenomenon who famously struck the pose in the "Bird's Nest" stadium, clutching a giant polythene bag at the "welcome desk". Should it not have the word "swag" emblazoned across it? "Actually, it's Usain's laundry for the past week," Simms said, opening the bag for inspection.

Bolt raring for fresh assault on 100m, saying ‘I’m not tired’

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Usain Bolt insisted yesterday that he will not be taking it easy when he returns to the track in Zurich tomorrow night – his first race since completing a golden treble at the Olympics in Beijing.

Bolt heads Jamaican express speeding to Beijing

Monday, 28 July 2008

With the Beijing Olympics due to start in just 11 days, the London Grand Prix sent its usual quota of runners and jumpers heading towards China with polar extremes of emotion.

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