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EME NEWS LONDON : Long distance Kenyan track female world champions will have different ways early next year.

JAN ZELEZNY REMEMBERS HIS FIRST GOLD MEDAL IN BARCELONA'S OLYMPIC STADIUM The three times Olympic gold medallist, who is visiting Barcelona to watch the Davis Cup Final, reveals that the javelin final in I 92 changed his life completely.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and 400m runner Sanya Richards of the United States have won their second IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards.

Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt headlines a group of nine athletes contracted to compete in the new Diamond League circuit next year, league organizers and the IAAF announced on Saturday.

LESS than two months after wrapping up his successful 2009 season, in which he won three gold medals at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt returned to training yesterday at the UWI Bowl in Kingston.

New Zealand Olympic champion shot put exponent Valerie Vili is a nominee for the 2009 world Athlete of the Year award.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva lead the contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.

Bolt and Bekele on short list Olympic and world champion sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds Lightning Bolt, a three-month-old male cheetah cub, at the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters in Nairobi.

The short run through a cheering crowd yesterday, however, certainly won't diminish Bolt's status as the top sprinter in the world or dampen expectations for another victory at this weekend's World Athletics Final.

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt runs beside a Greek schoolboy, in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Friday, Sept.

On a frantic final day of competition in the Olympic Stadium Kenenisa Bekele underlined his place as one of the all-time greats of distance running when he added the world 5,000 metres title to Monday's 10,000 gold.

Former Methuen High and Dartmouth College All-American Sean Furey had an off day in the javelin finals at the World Championships at Olympic Stadium.

Ethiopia's superstar Kenenisa Bekele edged out the defending champion, Kenyan-born American and defending champion Bernard Lagat, at the line to win the men's 5,000-meter title.

Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen captured gold in the men's javelin final during the world track and field championships in Berlin on Sunday.

Hovering around 6-2, 170 pounds, Devin Bogert may be built more like the average javelin than the average junior javelin thrower.

ROME: Tyson Gay scorched to victory in the 100m here on Friday in 9.77, leaving fierce rival Asafa Powell in his wake as he set the fastest time of the year at the Rome Golden League meeting.

Tyson Gay ran a world leading 9.77 seconds to win the 100 metres at Rome's Golden Gala on Friday and show Olympic champion Usain Bolt that he will not surrender his world sprint titles without a fight next month.

Ezinne Okparaebo improved her own Norwegian record on the 100m race at the Golden League meeting in Oslo on Friday, from 11.32 to 11.29, and placed fifth.