Posts from — December 2011

Bolt, the Jamaican sprint marvel, has identified the 25-year-old Williamson, one of his training partners, as one of the sprinters that could seriously rival him. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Observer

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Goodbye 2011 track and field – Glittering promises for next year 
• Olympic year is almost  here – but are we ready for it?
• Beijing’s clean Olympic air….mostly luck? 

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“Well, I wouldn’t vote for him. I think Usain Bolt has transcended our sport and he has been the sportsman of the last few years, but 2011 wasn’t his greatest year,” Matthews told The Gleaner. “If you had asked me in 2008 and 2009, I think there is no question he would have been Sportsman of the Year, but this year, no. He had a good year, he had an outstanding year, but it’s a moot point as to whether he or Yohan Blake, for instance, would be number one in the world in the 100 (metres), he doesn’t stand out so much.” Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• London 2012 Olympics are a Halley’s comet moment, Sebastian Coe
• Top Olympics sports stories of 2012 – #1 Usain Bolt’s disqualification

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Sprinter Usain Bolt is aiming to do something special at the London 2012 Olympics. The fastest man in the world said in an interview: “I want to do wild things at this Olympics – that’s my focus. I want, at the end of the Games, for people to sit down and say, ‘Did that really happen?” Read more >>

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Yohan Blake Foundation joins JIS in adopting Boys’ Home
• Olympic Stadium will have legacy, insists Coe
• Athens 2004 Olympic Games aggravated Greece’s debt
• Olympic stadiums to be renamed after corporations with the highest big
• Could the London Olympics become the ‘best games’ ever over Sydney?
• Olympics 2012 offers a chance at upliftment 

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Some dietary advice for  athletes at the London Olympics: Watch how much liver you eat. Too much can raise the risk of testing positive for clenbuterol.

The official advice from Britain comes after the World Anti-Doping Agency issued a warning last month about the dangers of athletes eating contaminated meat. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Concerns raised about the cost of the 2018 Commonwealth Games
• Kelly Ann Baptiste Sportswoman of the Year in Trinidad 
• London’s major pumped about the Summer Olympics

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British sprinter James Ellington admits he has no clue about the identity of the anonymous ebay bidder who has pledged £32,500 to sponsor him between now and the London Olympics, though he is hopeful the mystery will be solved on Monday. Read more>>

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Bolt can better Beijing, Berlin 

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World and Olympic champion and double World record-holder Usain Bolt will be going after a third straight Laureus Sports Awards after he was nominated for the 2012 that will be presented in February.

Bolt, who won in 2009 and 2010, is the only track and field athlete in the male category….Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona; tennis star Novak Djokovic; Tour de France winner, Australian, Cadel Evans; German basketballer and NBA star Dirk Nowitzki; and German motor racing star Sebastien Vettel. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Observer

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Outstanding Jamaican track athletes Veronica Campbell-Brown, Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake lead six women and six men shortlisted for the 2011 RJR National Sportsman and Sportswoman Awards. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Observer

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Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell plans to compete in next year’s indoor Grand Prix event in Birmingham as part of his preparations for the London Olympics.

The 29-year-old Jamaican star has not participated on the indoor circuit for several years but now plans to race in Birmingham on February 18. Read more>>

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Olympic sprinter beats target on eBay
• Istanbul 2012 record number of entries
• IAAF Athlete Representatives Exam a success
• 2011 a progressive year in track and field for T&T
• ‘Olympic Monster’ lurking in waters by London 2012 site

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Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt was quick to remind those who think young Jamaican training partner Yohan Blake will be the favourite for next year’s London Games 100 metres that he was still the man to beat.

“A lot of people have said guys are going to beat me but I am still No 1. I am still the Olympic champion,” the world’s fastest man told Reuters in a telephone interview from Kingston on Saturday.

“It doesn’t really matter what people say. I go out there and prove them wrong everyday,” Bolt said from the set of a new Gatorade campaign that is launching early next year. Read more>>

Source: SuperSport.com

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Blake, Todd most improved, says Maurice Wilson 
• Four golds…can Bolt do it?
• Wolmer’s  dominate Wesley Powell Invitational 
• The economics of track and field tickets for London 2012
• Congrats VCB and Yohan
• VIDEO: Yohan says thanks

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