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
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
London: Defending champion Usain Bolt and fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake both advanced with semi-final victories on Sunday into the 100-meter final, the most anticipated race of the London Olympics. Bolt had a lightning semi-final " out of the blocks fast enough and surging ahead by halfway before coasting to the end, looking around for challengers, to take his heat in 9.87 seconds. Blake was also able to ease up at...
12:58 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Doha: Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell blamed jet lag for his loss to resurgent American star Justin Gatlin after he conceded an early-race lead to finish second in the 100 metres at the season-opening Diamond League that started here on Friday. The 29-year-old Powell, who has never won a major title, had a fantastic start and seemed to have the race won after 75 metres at the Qatar Sports Club. However,...
06:54 PM, May 12, 2012
Istanbul: Justin Gatlin's fear of fading into obscurity disappeared in a blaze of gold at the world indoor championships. Shortly after teammate Ashton Eaton set a heptathlon world record on an all-American day in Istanbul, Gatlin earned his first gold medal since serving a four-year doping suspension by coming back on Nesta Carter to win the 60 meters in 6.46 seconds - .08 seconds better than his Jamaican rival. "It...
06:03 PM, Mar 11, 2012
