Former Olympic 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin continued to improve in his comeback from a doping ban when he ran 10.09 seconds but Caster Semenya endured an 800m race to forget. Gatlin, 28, finished second behind Jamaica’s Johan Blake, who won in a time of 10.06 despite clutching his hamstring as he crossed the line. [...]
Tags: Athletics, Caster Semenya, Justin Gatlin
Roger Federer served notice he was still a powerhouse at the US Open and punctuated his performance with another sensational shot for the ages in a first-round rout over Argentine Brian Dabul. Federer, whose run of five successive US titles was snapped last year in a five-set final against Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro, closed [...]
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David Rudisha has broken the 800m world record for the second time in eight days at a meeting in Rieti, Italy. The 21-year-old Kenyan ran one minutes 41.01 seconds to better the time he recorded in Berlin last Sunday by eight hundredths of a second. The previous best of 1:41.11, set by Denmark’s Kenyan-born Wilson [...]
Tags: Athletics, David Rudisha, Kenyan
Women’s world 800m champion Caster Semenya has been included in South Africa’s Commonwealth Games squad. The 19-year-old returned to competition in July after 11 months out following a series of gender tests, winning all three of her comeback races. “It’s good to hear her say that she’s focusing all her efforts on the Commonwealth Games,” [...]
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Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has confirmed he will leave the Fiat Yamaha team to ride for Ducati for two years from 2011. Rossi will link up with the team from his native Italy as former world champion Casey Stoner of Australia leaves Ducati to join Honda. The 31-year-old Rossi finished fifth in Sunday’s [...]
Tags: Ducati, Valentino Rossi, Yamaha
Kenyan David Rudisha broke the men’s 800 metres world record that had stood for 13 years on Sunday, clocking a time of one minute 41.09 seconds at the ISTAF athletics meeting in the German capital. Rudisha snatched the world record from Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer, who set a mark of 1.41.11 in 1997 in Cologne, Germany. [...]
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Derek Warwick has confirmed Michael Schumacher came close to being black-flagged and excluded from the Hungarian Grand Prix. Former F1 ace Warwick was part of the stewards’ panel for the second time this season at the Hungaroring to help with decisions during the race, with the FIA having decided at the start of the season [...]
Tags: F1, Michael Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello
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