Usain Bolt News

The 2012 Olympics will not be overshadowed by the grandness of last year's Beijing event, London Games chief Sebastian Coe said yesterday.

Ricky Webber, a sixth grader at Frelinghuysen Middle School, is a pre-black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Usain Bolt walked away with the Athlete of the Year award at the 2009 World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo last weekend and I am glad my colleague on the International Association of Athletics Federations Council and Jamaica Olympic Association secretary-general Neville McCook introduced me to the world sprint champion.

Seven-time world champ Manny Pacquiao said the record pay-per-view buys of his "Firepower" match with Miguel Cotto has proven there's no need for "trash talk" to sell a fight.

Cinema giant Odeon hopes to strike gold by screening the London 2012 Olympics in 3D.

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.

While their names and faces have become familiar, the roads paved by Jamaican Usain Bolt and American Sanya Richards on the way to their World Athlete of the Year honours were anything but ordinary.

Anthony Foster, Gleaner Writer MONTE-CARLO: Two of the world's fastest men, world sprint double record holder Usain Bolt and fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell endorsed the move by the International Assiociation of Athletics Federations to reduce the number of rounds at major championships.

22, 2009, in Monaco. Michael Steele/Getty Images 2 of 3 Sanya Richards celebrates after winning the women's 40-meter race at the Zurich IAAF Golden League athletics meeting on Aug.

Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica and 400-meter runner Sanya Richards of the United States have won their second IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards.

American Tyson Gay, right, beat Jamaica's Usain Bolt at the 2007 world championships, but the Jamaican has taken sprinting to an unprecedented level since.

You know you've transcended your sport when you get an ESPN Sportscenter commercial.

Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards were named the 2009 Jesse Owens Award recipients on Thursday, the second time that each has earned the USA Track and Field honour.

Oscar Pistorius. Image credit: photograph by Elvar Plsson, via Wikimedia Commons.

World and Olympics triple gold medallist Usain Bolt has decided to take a year long break.

Professor Gordon Shirley , principal of the University of the West Indies , Mona, exchange documents with Glen Mills , president of Racers Track Club, during the official launch of the UWI Athletics Initiative and 2009/10 Seminar Series at the UWI Mona Visitors' Lodge yesterday.

Longer toes may be one reason why sprinters are different from rest of us weekend joggers and couch potatoes.

The West Indies ought to be disbanded as a cricketing force. Followers of the game with memories of mighty deeds and fine gentlemen might regret the break-up but the culture has been ruined and every attempt to improve it thwarted.

Based on his popularity and spectacular year, Bolt is the front runner for this year's award.

High achievements: Hooker produced an injury-defying performance to take out the world championship in Berlin in August.