After all of the hype surrounding this event, the men’s 100m “dash” turned out to be not much of a race at all. Jamaica’s Usain Bolt easily bested the field with an astonishing time of 9.69 seconds, a new world record. Richard Thompson of the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago finished second […]
Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania won the women’s marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games earlier today. The 38-year-old finished the course with a time of 26.44 minutes and ended up running alone for more than half the race!
“It was a great performance,” she told reporters. “At the world [half-marathon] championships in Canada, everybody said […]
Nataliia Dobrynska of Ukraine was all smiles as she celebrated winning the Women’s Heptathlon 800m Final and the gold medal at the National Stadium on Day 8 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. She finished the event with a score of 6733.
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Wow! The much-heralded and one of the favorites to win the men’s 100m event, Tyson Gay failed to qualify for the event in Saturday’s semi-final race. Gay finished fifth in his race, where only the top Four times advance. Gay told NBC after the race that he had no excuses and his leg felt […]
Russia’s Valeriy Borchin won the 20km race-walk, finishing just 14 seconds ahead of former Olympic champion and three-time world champion, Jefferson Perez of Ecuador. Jared Tallent of Australia earned the Bronze Medal.
Defending Olympic champion, Ivano Brugnetti of Italy finished out of the medals.
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Poland’s Tomasz Majewski won the Gold Medal in the shot put event, topping American Christian Cantwell, the two-time indoor world champion and the favorite to win the event. Cantwell took the Silver and Andrei Mikhnevich of Belraus was awarded the Bronze Medal.
Canada’s Dylan Armstrong finished in fourth place, missing a medal by just one centimeter.
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The track and field events (properly the Athletes events) began today in Beijing at the Bird’s Nest Stadium. One of the first races was the women’s 10,000m contest.
Two-time world champion, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopa won the Gold Medal with a new Olympic time of 29:54.66. She was followed by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for […]
What a disappointment! Seven members of the Russian Olympic team have tested positive for doping. The IAAF has been conducting an investigation for the past 18 months and have chosen to suspend the female athletes and have accused them of tampering with the urine samples.
Included in the list is Yelena Soboleva (pictured above), which […]
The 52 competitors who will make up the French athletics Olympic squad have been announced. They’ve already got high hopes for the team with France’s National Technical Director, Frank Chevallier, predicting that they will bring home two to four medals next month at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The squad will be led by […]
Oscar Pistorius may have been allowed to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games but the South African, double amputee runner’s time was not fast enough to earn him a spot at men’s 400m race at the Games. It’s unfortunate because he completed the race at the trials in Lucerne, Switzerland with a career best […]
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