GEORGE TOWN - Usain Bolt edged teammate Kemar Bailey-Cole in a photo finish to win the 100 metres at the Cayman Invitational track meet Wednesday. Bolt kicked his 100-metre season off with a less than impressive time of 10.09 seconds. Bailey-Cole, who finished with the same time, is one of Bolt's ...

GEORGE TOWN - Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt says he is feeling strong and will be aiming for a fast time in the 100 metres when he competes at the Cayman Invitational Wednesday. “I am definitely going to try running my fastest, pushing myself because I am feeling good,” ...

KINGSTON- Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has been ruled out of Saturday's Jamaica International meeting because of a slight hamstring strain, his agent said Tuesday. The 100 and 200 metres world record holder felt tightness in training and in consultation with Coach Glen Mills decided ...

  LONDON - Tens of thousands of tickets for Usain Bolt's return to the scene of his London Olympic victories sold out within 75 minutes of going on sale on Friday, organisers said. Bolt, who won three sprint golds in London last year to match his Beijing haul, will compete in the IAAF Diamond ...

KINGSTON - Usain Bolt, the two-time reigning Olympic champion at 100 and 200 meters, will run at the Jamaica International Invitational athletics meet on May 4, organizers announced on Wednesday. Yohan Blake and US sprint star Allyson Felix will also compete in the meeting, but meet director Donald ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt and British athletics queen Jessica Ennis won the top prizes as athletics dominated the Laureus World Sports Awards on Monday.Bolt was crowned the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the third time following his triple gold-medal winning ...

PARIS  - French sports daily L'Equipe announced their annual awards for the 2012 year in sport this week with Olympic gold medallists' Usain Bolt and Teddy Riner leading the list. The well respected paper handed Bolt the men's 'Champion of World Champions' award for the third time following ...

TOKYO - World's fastest man Usain Bolt is still toying with the notion of adding the 400 metres or long jump to his repertoire after retaining his 100 and 200 Olympic titles.The 26-year-old, who also helped defend Jamaica's 4x100 relay crown in London, said on Wednesday he could opt to branch out ...

LONDON  - Jamaican track star Usain Bolt could win four track golds at the Olympics after admitting he may run the 4x400 metres relay. The 25-year-old comes into the London Games as the defending champion in the 100 and 200m as well as the 4x100m relay. But he hasn't ruled out the 4x400m relay ...

OSLO  - Usain Bolt made it three out of three on his European tour of 100m outings with a thrilling victory over Jamaican teammate Asafa Powell in the Diamond League meeting here on Thursday. Other stand-out performances came from Australian world champion Sally Pearson over the women’s ...

OSTRAVA  - Sprinters of the world, unite! Usain Bolt, the athlete who has galvanised the sport with a sensational series of world record-breaking performances, can have an off day.The Jamaican, so solid on the track since his stunning rise to world fame and acclaim when he set then-world bests ...

OSTRAVA  - Reigning double Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt is targeting a 9.7sec time when he takes to the track to race the 100m here on Friday in his European season debut.The Jamaican will be making his sixth appearance in the eastern Czech city, where he holds the meet record of ...

KINGSTON - Double world record-holder Usain Bolt shook off two false starts to open his 2012 season with a world-leading 9.82 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday.Bolt, running his first 100m of the season, looked in control from the start as he posted ...

KINGSTON  - Sprint king Usain Bolt will run his first individual race of the Olympic season on Saturday when he lines up for the 100m at the Jamaica International Invitational at the national stadium.After running the anchor leg on the Racers’ 4x100m club relay team that clocked a ...

LONDON - Reigning Olympic champion Usain Bolt has said that he is looking for another breathtaking performance at the London Games, aiming to go as fast as possible for the 100 and 200 metres."People are looking forward to me running 9.4, 19 seconds, anything that's amazing," the 25-year-old ...

LONDON : Former world record holder Asafa Powell will face current incumbent Usain Bolt over 100 metres at the Bislett Games in Oslo on June 7, organisers announced. The two Jamaicans are also due to meet the week before at the Diamond League meeting in Rome as they build up to the London Olympics ...

KINGSTON  - Usain Bolt and Veronica Campbell-Brown, winners of the 200m world titles last year in Daegu, South Korea, were named Jamaica's top sportsman and sportswoman of 2011.Sprint superstar Bolt had been overlooked for the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association's top athlete award, ...

ZAGREB (AFP) - Jamaican athletics superstar Usain Bolt ran a track record 9.85sec in the 100m at the athletics meeting here Tuesday, smashing longstanding American rival Tyson Gays mark of 9.92 set last year. The 25-year-old Olympic titleholder - who lost his world crown last month after being ...

PARIS (AFP) - Usain Bolt is the headline act for the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, but the Jamaican sprint star has warned that more world records are not likely to be on the cards. Bolt has dominated the 100 and 200m since storming to double gold in world record times at the Beijing ...

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt cruised to victory in the 200m at Friday's Diamond League meeting here while American 400m runner LaShawn Merritt returned after a 21-month doping ban, insisting he's a clean athlete. Bolt won in a time of 20.03sec in an unfavourable headwind ...

WASHINGTON - US officials believe that extremists may have been warned after the United States provided Pakistan with intelligence on bomb-making factories, The Washington Post reported Saturday in a dispatch obviously designed to put more pressure on Pakistani security agencies. Citing American ...

OSLO (AFP) - Usain Bolt delivered a stunning 200m victory at the Bislett Games on Thursday but Caster Semenya was outshone by unheralded Moroccan Halima Hachlaf in the women's 800m. Bolt, the double world and Olympic champion and world record holder in both the 100 and 200m, was making his season's ...

OSTRAVA (AFP) - Jamaican athletics superstar Usain Bolt easily beat compatriot and this season's fastest man over 100m Steve Mullings here on Tuesday at the Golden Spike event. The 24-year-old world record holder timed 9.91sec, the same time as he ran in the Diamond League event in Rome last ...

PARIS (AFP) Jamaicas Usain Bolt was again the highlight of a thrilling year of athletics, claiming triple gold and a double sprint record at the World Athletics Championships in August. Bolt, who had in 2008 set the Beijing Olympics alight with a treble gold showing in record time, again lived up ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser won the women's 100 metres title here at the world championships on Monday in the joint third fastest time ever of 10.73 seconds. The 22-year-old Olympic champion - who thus emulates compatriot Usain Bolt after he added the men's world title to his Olympic ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Cuban Dayron Robles will take inspiration from Usain Bolt's world record-breaking performance in the 100m when he takes to the track in his own discipline, the 110m hurdles. In the absence of Athens Olympic gold medallist Liu Xiang of China, who is also defending world champion from ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Olympic champion Usain Bolt and reigning world champion Tyson Gay cruised into the semi-finals of the men's 100m on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships here on Saturday. The first golds of the August 15-23 meeting went to Valeriy Borchin in the men's 20km walk and ...

LONDON (AFP) - Tyson Gay insisted he could give Usain Bolt a run for his money at next month's World Championships in Berlin despite his ongoing problems with a groin injury. Gay, a double world champion, is the fastest man in the world this year at 100 metres and 200m. But Bolt, the Olympic ...

KINGSTON (Jamaica) (AFP) - Beijing Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt won the 100 meters at the Jamaican Athletics Championships on Saturday in 9.86 seconds, the fastest wind-legal time in the world the year. Bolt, running into a 0.2m/sec headwind and racing in lane four next to rival ...

LONDON (AFP) - Usain Bolt could have run the Olympic 100m in 9.55 seconds had he not eased up before crossing the finish line, according to a scientific study released Thursday. The 22-year-old Jamaican broke his own 100m world record to win Olympic gold, clocking 9.69sec despite decelerating in ...