Track and Field: Triple Jump and Pole Vault with John Gillespie and Dan West
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Phillips Idowu is sitting deep in thought in a Birmingham city-centre hotel. "Which would I ask her to give me?" he enquires after a few moments. The scenario which has just been suggested to the world champion triple jumper is that of a fairy godmother coming down to earth and offering him either the world record Jonathan Edwards has held for 14 years or the Olympic gold medal that will...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Gold medal winner, IAAF athlete of the year – surely even Jonathan Edwards is happy with the triple jumper's season? What time did you get in last night, then?" Tony the barber asks the 6ft 5in triple-jump world champion sitting in his chair. Phillips Idowu smiles. "I can't remember." Idowu is enjoying a six-week break at home in north London, before he has to return to training...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Chennai: M. A. Prajusha became the only athlete in the meet to bag an individual golden double when she won the triple jump event while defending women 1500m champion Sinimol Paulose was relegated to third place on the concluding day of the 49th National Inter-State National Athletics Championship Saturday.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Chennai: Kerala's triple jumper Ranjith Maheshwary, back after a 20-month hiatus due to ankle injury, won the gold and set a meet record in the 49th National Inter-State Athletics Championship here Friday.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
BHOPAL: Triple jumper Renjith Maheswary is back in form. On a slump since last year, the reigning Asian champion produced his best in 15 months on Thursday, a leap of 16.68 metres that not only bettered the meet record in the Open National ...
Losers Come Second (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
ATHLETICS - Phillips Idowu has been named the European Athlete of The Year. The 30-year-old world triple jump champion will be presented with his award in Budapest on 17 October. Idowu won his gold medal at the World Championships in Berlin with a personal best jump of 17.73m.By winning this award Idowu joins an illustrious group of athletes who have won European Athlete of The Year. Past winners
MotoGP EN (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
One champion was backing another on Saturday in Portugal as 2008 Triple Jump Olympic gold winner Nelson Evora predicted another Estoril win for Valentino Rossi.
Sport Is A TV Show (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Time now to introduce a new feature here at Sport Is A TV Show, in which we provide a curious sportistic factoidlet and ask you, dear reader, "did you know" it. We're calling it "Were You Utterly Cognizant of the Fact...?" So, "were you utterly cognizant of the fact" that after he made that jump in the first round of the 1968 Olympic final, Bob Beamon attempted a second...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Niggling knee pain has forced Malaysia's best triple-jumper to abandon her dreams of competing at the London Olympics in 2012.
icWales (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
PHILLIPS Idowu is targeting the magical 18-metre barrier as he embarks on the long-term goal of adding the Olympic triple jump title at London 2012 to his World Championship crown.
icWales (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
PHILLIPS Idowu is targeting the magical 18-metre barrier as he embarks on the long-term goal of adding the Olympic triple jump title at London 2012 to his World Championship crown.
BBC Sport - Tom Fordyce blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
For a team that was supposed to be critically weakened by injuries to its key components, the British squad in Berlin had a remarkably successful nine days. A final haul of six medals, one more than performance director Charles van Commenee had predicted, left GB eighth in the medal table , with their best medal haul since 1999. Beyond that simple statistic, however, there are several more complex...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Could there be any way to make a pointless Disney 3D remake of Yellow Submarine even more annoying? Disney intends to release the film to coincide with the 2012 London Olympics. Ah, yes. Because of John Lennon having held the UK triple jump record for seven years back in the early 70s, of course. Why wouldn't you want to celebrate the very made-up links between The Beatles and The Olympics? There are...
Opelika-Auburn News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Leevan Sands finished fourth in the triple jump and Josanne Lucas broke her own national record in the 400-meter hurdles to highlight competition among former Auburn track and field athletes Tuesday at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
With his pillar-box red hair, white headband, white wrist bands, eight body piercings, new knee length socks and yellow spikes, louder than the crowd in Berlin’s Olympic stadium, Phillips Idowu arrived intending to make a triple jump statement last night.
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