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Athletics News - September 2007

Liu Xiang is welcomed home as sprinting's cold war continues

September 28th 2007 12:27
Liu Xiang celebrates breaking the world record last year
So we’ve had the world championships, the world athletics final and the climax of the Golden League in recent weeks but don’t be fooled – the season’s not over yet!


Tonight’s meeting in Shanghai will be kicking off a south Asian tour for many of the athletes on show which will also include competitions in Yokohama and Deagu in the coming days


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Between a rock and a hard place.

September 26th 2007 22:23
What do Ben Johnson, Justin Gatlin, Barry Bonds, Floyd Landis, Ian Thorpe and Lance Armstrong all have in common?

All have risen to the pinnacle of their respective sports, all have achieved great things, all have been adored by millions, and all have become fabulously wealthy as a result of unparalleled excellence in their chosen field


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Greek athletes still evading justice after trial is delayed again.

September 25th 2007 10:37
Three years after Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou sensationally withdrew from the Athens Olympic Games amid a huge drug scandal the struggle to convict them of any impropriety rumbles on as their trial is once again delayed.

On the 12th of August 2004 Kenteris and Thanou missed their 3rd drugs test in the run up to the Olympics – the testers had previously failed to catch up with the pair in Tel Aviv and Chicago in the weeks prior to the games


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World Athletics Final Report

September 24th 2007 12:12
Dayron Robles
There were several performances over the past weekend worthy of note and some far more expected than others.

Take Asafa Powell for example, expected to win but with a super fast time of 9.83 ran into a -0.3 headwind (making it the second fastest ever into a headwind) he provided the watching world with a performance to wax lyrical over during those long winter months before next year


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All set for the world athletics final

September 21st 2007 16:15
Ok so many of the top draw stars wont be in attendance this weekend; Veronica Campbell, Bernard Legat, Tirunesh Dibaba, Tyson Gay, Jeremy Wariner Liu Xiang and Kenenisa Bekele will all miss out (but the last four names WILL be in Shanghai on 28th September) among others but lets focus on the names that will be there.

100m world record holder Asafa Powell will look to make himself $30,000 richer for under 10 seconds worth of work as he goes up against Britain’s Marlon Devonish (10.06 this year) and sub 10 pair Olu Fasuba and Francis Obikwelu (though neither have managed the feat this year


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One 'final' too many?

September 20th 2007 15:26
Yelena Isinbaeva and Sanya Richards
This weekend provides the last 'major' meeting of the summer track and field season in the form of the world athletics final held in Stuttgart.

To be eligible for an invitation this weekend an athlete has to be in the top 7 of the order of merit, in real terms having won or placed highly in at least 3 IAAF Grand Prix events


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Big pay day for Isinbaeva and Richards as Legat is beaten.

September 18th 2007 13:23
Yelena Isinbaeva and Sanya Richards both scooped a cool half a million dollars each after each triumphing in the last Golden League match of the season in Berlin, Germany.

Isinbaeva cleared 4.82m - a meeting record and a full 10cm higher than second placed Pyrek Monika to underline that whilst form (she has been way off her usual high standards this year) may be temporary, class is most certainly forever


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Golden League Round 6: Berlin

September 16th 2007 13:25
The second installment of the Golden League double header takes place in Berlin this afternoon and all eyes will be on those going for the jackpot.

Sanya Richards and Yelena Isinbaeva both require just one more win tonight to claim their share of the golden league jackpot but neither will have it entirely there own way


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Defar sets world best as Richards and Isinbaeva march on.

September 15th 2007 17:30
A world record over the rarely run 2 mile event for Meseret Defar was the highlight of the golden league meeting held in Brussels last night.

In running 8.:8.58 the Etheopian beat the old record by a full 11 seconds and also set a new world leading 3000m time going through that distance in 8:24.81


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Golden League Round 5: Brussels

September 14th 2007 15:37
Round 5 of the IAAF Golden League in Brussels sees Asafa Powell race in the 100m for the first time since setting a new world record in Reiti just 6 days ago.

The Jamaican cemented his reputation as the fastest man on the planet with a 9.74 ( 1.7m/s) run in Italy easing down in his heat, he then recorded a 9.78 in the final with 0.0m/s wind reading suggesting he can go even faster


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Powell and Gay's phony war.

September 12th 2007 16:12
Gay beats Powell in Osaka
So it looks like we will have to wait until next year for the resumption of the rivalry between Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay.

Both were due to race at the Golden League event in Brussels this Friday night, either in the 100m or in different races with Powell taking the 100m and Gay the 200m being the more likely outcome


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Richards and Carter return to form in Zurich Golden League

September 11th 2007 13:11
Sanya Richards
It was a winning return to action for Americans Sanya Richards and Xavier Carter on Friday night.

Carter, in his first 200m race since sustaining a knee injury at the US championships last June stopped the clock in 19.92 – a meeting record


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Asafa Powell goes from zero to hero in 9.74 seconds!

September 9th 2007 16:24
Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell today broke the 100m world record by a staggering 3 hundredths of a second at the IAAF Grand Prix meeting in Reiti, Italy.

His time of 9.74 seconds was run with a 1.7m/s tailwind aiding the Jamaican in the second of two heats


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11 world champions in Zurich for Golden League round 3.

September 7th 2007 01:47
Yelena Isinbaeva
With events in Japan now at an the athletics world now focuses on the resumption of the IAAF’s ‘golden league’ with the 3rd meeting of 6 taking place in Zurich today and yes Tyson Gay will be in attendance (he’s really clocking up the air miles).

For the uninitiated the golden league is thus named because, if an athlete triumphs in their chosen event in all 6 meetings they win a share of a $1 million jackpot signified by a solid gold bar


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The British Perspective.

September 6th 2007 03:42
GB women's 4x400m team
So how did team GB do in the land of the rising sun?

First, the facts


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Gay tops the highlight podium

September 5th 2007 16:47
Tyson Gay
So what was your highlight of the championships?

For me Tyson Gay grabbing a 100m/200m/4x100m hat trick of gold medals is incomparable and capped a supreme performance by the entire US team


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World Championships: Days 8 and 9

September 4th 2007 13:56
The world championships ended on early Sunday morning in a wave of finals and top performances.

First up in the mens pole vault American Brad Walker added to the not inconsiderable number of gold medals USA bound after the championships with a 5.86m clearance, beating Romain Mesnil of France on count back


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