The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
• Illegal handover knocks US out of final • Great Britain run season's best race The United States are out of the men's 4x100m relay after being disqualified for an illegal baton change outside the box. Shawn Crawford was charged with failing to pass the baton to the anchor runner Darvis Patton as they headed for the home straight. The mistake could prove a huge boost to the British team,...
Sleeping Like A Blog (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
That quote is from 20:00 on the BBC liveblog of the athletics . I watched the half hour in question. Wow. The bear in question is the mascot of the World Championships. You know the one, you'll see him posing with the star of my new userpic on tomorrow's back pages. He carried, and then dropped the Jamaican 400m gold medallist hurdler, Melaine Walker. "Is Bolt too tired?" Denise Lewis and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
• Four athletes will not run, Jamaican newspaper reports • Blake, Fothergill, Spence and Brooks all miss Berlin Four of the five Jamaican athletes at the centre of doping allegations will not appear at the World Championships that begin in Berlin tomorrow, a Jamaican newspaper has reported. The Jamaica Observer said that Donald Quarrie, the technical leader of Jamaica's team to the 12th...
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