Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
HE IS nearly 60 and has just undergone hip replacement surgery for the second time, yet veteran Olympic hammer thrower Chris Black is planning an astonishing return to his sp
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
KOCHI: After she switched to the hammer throw a few years ago, Anitha Abraham avoided the discus, keen to focus on one event. But, on Sunday — a day after toppling her own hammer record — the 21-year-old from Kothamangalam’s ...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Hammer thrower Primoz Kozmus, who won Slovenia's first track and field Olympic gold medal in Beijing last year, is set to miss the 2012 Games after announcing his intention to retire.
Look At This... (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year - 2009 shortlist Polar bear cub hitches a ride Raven Detained for Stalking Woman Escapes Police Farmer who killed 83,000 rats awarded prize 10 of the Most Bizarre Animal Defense Mechanisms Epic Squirrel Fight (Pic) A five-year-old boy has shot dead a 12ft, 800-pound alligator in Texas Grandmother Fights Bear With Pillow One stone skunk being helped...
Tech-Ex (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
doubleTwist, which purportedly wants to "liberate your media" (by removing DRM) and which earlier this year took the particularly gutsy step of putting an ad outside of Apple's San Francisco retail store, has skewered Apple again. They took Apple's original "1984" Macintosh ad and revamped it, pretty much shot-for-shot (but with animation), with Steve Jobs as the despot. Really,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Another record fell at the world track and field championships. The mark was set not by Usain Bolt and the Jamaican team in relays but in the women’s hammer throw.
hectorshona (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Berlin – Usain Bolt reached another athletics milestone on Saturday but a Polish hammer thrower stole the world record from him. Bolt became the first man to claim sprint trebles at Olympics and world championships when he helped Jamaica win the 4×100 metres relay.He then accepted the blame that the winning time was only the second best in race history, saying “I am really tired.”Instead,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Berlin - Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland claimed a women's hammer throw world record of 77.96 metres at the world championships on Saturday. Wlodarczyk bettered the mark of 77.80m from Russian Tatyana Lysenko on August 15, 2006, by 16cm in her second atte...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Berlin - Betty Heidler threw a championship record in women's hammer throw qualifying on Thursday, underlining her ambitions to defend the world title on home ground. The Berlin-born Heidler got the massive heave of 75.27 metres in her first attempt ...
Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
I'm not a competitive athlete but there are just some drugs I *must* take because of my asthma. I expect that as I continue to age, I will have to take more drugs. But what if I were an elite master's track & field athlete? John Leland takes on this topic in yesterday's New York Times : Mr. Levine, who is 95 and has had operations on both knees, in June set the American record in the 400-meter...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Berlin - Olympic champion Primoz Kozmus claimed the first gold medal for Slovenia at world athletics championships when he dominated the hammer throw on Monday. Kozmus was the only athlete to beat the 80-metres mark with a big throw of 80.84m in his ...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
BERLIN (AP) Japan's former Olympic hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi has pulled out of the upcoming world championships in Berlin after failing to fully recover from lower back and groin problems, senior Japanese team official Susumu Takano said Wednesday. Takano said Murofushi told him from his training camp in the United States on Tuesday that he was not in pain but a lack of sufficient preparation...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
HAMMER-THROW stars Mark Dry and Myra Perkins delivered records before the heavens opened at the Scottish Under-23 and Under-20 Championships in Grangemouth yesterday.
Hills of the North, Rejoice! (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
This athlete is well pleased with his hammer throw! Just like other throwing events, the competition is decided on who can throw the hammer the furthest. The 'Hammer Throw' derived from old competitions where an actual sledge-hammer was thrown. Nowadays however the hammer is replaced with a steel or lead weight, one of the adopted methods derived from one of the most significant players in Hammer Throwing,...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
HAMMER-THROWER Mark Dry, who trains on a rough strip of concrete near Turnhouse and is coached by Capital legend Chris Black, launched himself into Commonwealth Games medal co
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