Oslo: Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, got faster when he got behind the wheel of a replica racer at the recent IAAF Diamond League this week.
The iconic 100m star did a lap in a Formula 1 race car after he won the 200m meet on Thursday in 19.79, the fastest time in the world this year.
He completed the same 200 in 23.72 when driving the F1 replica.
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05:20 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Oslo: Olympic champion Usain Bolt responded to last week's surprise sprint defeat in Rome by storming to a world-leading time of 19.79 seconds over 200 metres at the Bislett Diamond League meeting on Thursday. The Jamaican world record holder, surprisingly beaten over 100 metres by American Justin Gatlin in Italy, streaked away from the field to win comfortably on a chilly night in his first competitive race over the distance...
09:36 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Rome: Usain Bolt's defeat by Justin Gatlin in the 100 metres at the Rome Diamond League meeting on Thursday is unlikely to cause the Olympic champion too much concern ahead of August's world championships. American Gatlin, bronze medallist at the London Games after a four-year doping ban, ran 9.94 seconds to edge Bolt by 0.01 in a race that showed the Jamaican has yet to fully recover from the hamstring...
10:49 AM, Jun 07, 2013
London: Queen Elizabeth II kicked off the four-day Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend to mark 60 years since being officially crowned Queen of England. The 87-year-old monarch was joined by husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the Epsom Derby on Saturday, one of the key events in Britain's racing calendar which was also their first official engagement soon after the coronation ceremony in 1953. On Sunday, the official...
01:00 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Former Olympic champion Justin Gatlin won the men's 100 metres title at Saturday's Prefontaine Classic, the fourth leg of the Diamond League athletics' series. The 31-year-old American, who won gold at Athens in 2004 then bronze in London last year after serving a doping ban, won the blue-riband sprint in a wind-assisted time of 9.88 seconds. It was Gatlin's second Diamond League win this season after he also won in...
09:05 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New York: Former world champion Tyson Gay, free from injury for one of the few times in recent years, blitzed his rivals on Saturday to win the 100 metres at the Adidas Grand Prix. Kenya's Olympic champion David Rudisha also outclassed his opponents to easily win the 800m at the New York leg of the Diamond League series. Croatia's Blanka Vlasic, competing for the first time since 2011, won the...
11:13 AM, May 26, 2013
Mumbai: City police registered a case of theft after diamonds worth Rs 3.91 crore that were to be exported to Belgium went missing from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. According to the complaint, filed with Sahar Police, the complainant, who happens to be the employee of a diamond trading firm, sent a consignment containing 24 packets of diamonds to Belgium by air cargo on May 16. The representative of the Belgium-based...
11:22 PM, May 19, 2013
Geneva: A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana commanded an unearthly price of $26.7 million from Christie's auction house on Wednesday amid the spring ritual of well-heeled bidders flocking or phoning in to Geneva's luxury sales. The pear-shaped gem accounted for more than a quarter of the $102 million in sales rung up by Christie's Wednesday night, a night after Sotheby's had $78 million in sales. "A perfect diamond commands a...
09:40 AM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Police raided a hookah parlour on Wednesday night and detained 45 people. The raid was carried out at Black Diamond Hookah Parlour in the Dock Yard area. According to the police the Black Diamond Hookah Parlour was being run illegally. The hookah parlour was actually being run inside a motorcycle showroom. From the outside the parlour resembled a motorcycle showroom. Several hidden and secret passages had been made...
12:15 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Ace Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia will be participating in the opening leg of the prestigious Diamond League Meetings series in Doha on May 10, which will give her a launchpad for her preparations for the Asian and World Championships later this year. Poonia is expected to compete in a star-studded field, which will also include reigning Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic of Croatia. The Indian had finished seventh...
06:32 PM, May 01, 2013
Washington: An 80-year-old US woman accidentally swallowed a $5,000 diamond from her champagne glass at a charity event. The Tampa Woman's Club held a fundraiser over the weekend where they poured 400 flutes of champagne. For $20, members could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond. Each flute contained a cubic zirconia stone, and only one of them contained the prized gem donated...
06:29 PM, Apr 26, 2013
London: Usain Bolt will return to London to compete in the IAAF Diamond League meeting at the Olympic Stadium in which he achieved a clean sweep of gold medals last year. The Jamaican six-times Olympic champion will head a glittering cast as London's Queen Elizabeth Park celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Olympic opening ceremony. The meeting, held on July 26-28, will feature 29 Olympic medallists, including 12 champions and...
01:56 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Bolt will race in the 200-metre on July 6 as part of his buildup for the Moscow world athletics championships. ...
06:54 PM, Feb 26, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron says Kohinoor, the giant diamond his country forced India to hand over in the colonial era that was set in a royal crown, will not be returned. ...
11:36 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Eight masked gunmen forced their way through the security fence at the Brussels International airport, drove into the tarmac and stole diamonds worth $50 million. All this without firing a single gun shot. Officials say the entire act was completed in a few minutes. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Robbers dressed as police and armed with machineguns have stolen 120 parcels of diamonds worth millions of dollars from the runway of Brussels Airport in one of the biggest heists the industry has seen. ...
07:36 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Usain Bolt and other overseas athletes will be able to compete tax-free in this year's London Diamond League event. ...
04:32 PM, Feb 07, 2013
IBN7 Diamond States Awards honours the states that have shown immense growth, setting an example for other states. ...
09:04 PM, Feb 04, 2013
This is the fourth edition of Diamond States Awards and we look at the major problems facing the Indian states. ...
10:51 PM, Feb 03, 2013
IBN7 along with Outlook magazine rewarded many states for their outstanding work in many fields including education, health, social development, and law and order. ...
11:53 AM, Dec 26, 2012
