Athens Olympic champion Zhu Qinan, who smashed the world record of men’s 10m air rifle with 703.7 points at the Chinese City Games, was gearing up to defend his Olympic title in Beijing.
“My aim is the gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,” said Zhu. “If the Olympic Games open tomorrow, I am ready […]
Sprint and Relay Specialist Shirley Strickland de la Hunty was known to be a great athlete, competing in the sport, athletics, mainly in relay. She is also a record-breaker. She is the first woman to win seven Olympic medals and to successfully defend her Olympic title in the 80m hurdles (1952-1956).
Here’s a brief overview […]
LJ beats best in the world
National Junior Olympics meet coming to Mt. SAC
Up against the world; Local teens to compete in world youth games
EMAAR-MGF to build Commonwealth Games Village
Tags: Announcements, Commonwealth Games, Light the Torch, Olympic News, Olympics, World Championship, World Records
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American swimmer, Michael Phelps is a Baltimore native who has won seven gold medals and set five world records in his career, so far. Sheesh. He’s only 22 years old!
Phelps is also the current holder of four Olympic records and four individual and two team world long distance records. During 2004 Athens Games, he […]
He goes by the name of Liu Xiang. He’s the superstar hurdler of China.
Liu broke the world record last 2006 in Luasanne, Switzerland. He clocked 12.88 seconds.
He’s currently scheduled to compete in the following 2007 competitions:
Osaka Grand Prix - May
Eugene Grand Prix - June
Shanghai’s Golden Grand Prix - September
However, his top target for 2007 is […]
“Grant Hackett will continue to race Ian Thorpe.” The article began.
It’s been all over the news how everyone, athletes and fans alike, have been voicing out how it’s been too soon for Ian Thorpe to retire from his career. Thorpe and Grant Hackett have been household names in the Australian pools.
Also, according to the […]
Olympic and Commonwealth Games Champion, Anna Meares, today broke her own World Record for the 500m time trial in the morning session of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at Sydney’s Dunc Gray Velodrome today.
The 23 year-old Queenslander posted a time of 33.944 sec to take eight thousandths off the mark she set to win […]
Since we’re on the topic of world records and the 100m event, I thought I’d feature this bit of trivia on the evolution of the 100 metres world record.
10.6 Donald Lippincott (US) 1912
10.4 Charles Paddock (US) 1921
10.3 Percy Williams (Canada) 1930
10.2 Jesse Owens (US) 1936
10.1 Willie Williams (US) 1956
10.0 Armin Hary (West Germany) 1960
9.95 Jim […]
I was fortunate enough to come across this YouTube video of Asafa Powell’s 100m world record run of 9.77 seconds [the second of three] during the Norwich Union British Grand Prix in Gateshead, United Kingdom taken last June 11, 2006.
Tags: Athletics, Olympians, Olympics, Trivia, World Records
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9.77 WR Plates on a Mercedez Benz!
How cool is that?
Of course, Asafa Powell IS the fastest man in the world right now, so, he is entitled to a few indulges every now and then. And, yea, he did run the current world record of 9.77 seconds in the 100m track event — several times!
He did […]
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