New WORLD RECORD at the '11 IAAF World 'Ships

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Edited September 4, 2011 by Shãłïq

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A little bit off the 2011 'Ships topic -- It's Official: Usain Bolt's 2012 Track & Field Olympic Uniform Will Be Designed by Bob Marley's Daughter:

 

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The Fastest Man in the World and his teammates will be breaking PRs in true Jamaican fashion during the 2012 Olympics. PUMA and Cedella Marley, Bob Marley’s eldest daughter, just announced she will be designing the Jamaican Track and Field Team’s Olympic uniform, podium and ceremony wear. Cedella describes the partnership as legendary. We describe it as fast fashion, literally.

 

Bolt likes the partnership as well. "I can't think of a better person to design our Olympic outfits than Cedella. PUMA got that right...hooking up with a legendary Jamaican. She's a great designer but also carries on the spirit of our nation through the legacy of the Marley family. It's going to be inspirational to run in London with that energy surrounding me."

 

You can catch the first peak of Cedella’s designs this August at the IAAF World Championships of Track and Field in Korea.

Source: PUMA

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Asafa Powell dashes 9.86, Campbell-Brown 22.26!!!

 

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Fast and dominating victories by Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown and a world-leading effort in the Discus Throw by Zoltan Kovago highlighted the inaugural Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Budapest on Saturday (30).

 

Powell, the current 100m world leader at 9.78, produced what was arguably his finest day of the season. After a smooth 9.90 (wind +1.8) in the preliminary round, the former World record holder clocked 9.86 (+2.0) in the final, to win by a hefty margin over Zimbabwean national record holder Ngonidzashe Makusham who stopped the clock in 10.16.

 

It was Powell’s fifth victory in seven competitions this season – in late May he was second to Usain Bolt in Rome and was forced to pull up with a minor injury in Rabat, Morocco – which puts the 28-year-old firmly among the favourites at the upcoming IAAF World Championships. In the process, he easily supplanted Linford Christie (10.03, 1987) as the Hungarian All-Comers record holder and was awarded the Dr. Bojidar Spiriev Trophy, named in honor of the man behind the official IAAF scoring tables, for producing the best performance of the meeting.

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Only 26 days to go!!

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Only 10 days to go!!!

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J'can athlete fails drug test — report

BY PAUL REID Observer writer

 

Just a few days before the 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, the Jamaican track and field fraternity has been rocked by news of another failed drug test. News emerged yesterday that a male athlete who was expected to be named in the Jamaican team next week for the nine-day meet tested positive for a banned substance. Reports reaching the Observer are that the athlete returned the test during the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships in late June but was only this past Monday notified of the results of the 'A' sample.

 

When contacted last night, a senior executive of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) was hearing the news for the first time and told the Observer they were hurrying to get to a meeting of the executive council to continue planning for the World Championships.Executive Director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo), Dr Patrece Charles-Freeman, in the meantime, said she could not speak to the issue.

 

"I have no comment on the matter. There is no way JADCo can comment at this time," Freeman said.

 

If the incident were confirmed it would be the third straight global track and field championships that the cloud of failed drug tests would be hanging over the Jamaican team. In 2008 just before the Beijing Olympics, sprinter Julien Dunkley tested positive and was pulled from the team and two years ago, five athletes returned positive tests after consuming a sport drink during Trials. The five -- Yohan Blake, Allodin Fothergill, Sheri-Ann Brooks, Marvin Anderson and Lanceford Spence — were all banned for three months. Also in 2009, 200m specialist and 2001 World Championships silver medallist Christopher Williams returned a positive finding at a meet in Europe and was banned for two years.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/J-can-athlete-fails-drug-test---report_9418667#ixzz1UhsJnzJA

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Day 3 -- August 29th

Jamaica's Yohan Blake Wins 100m Dash, Usain Bolt Disqualified

 

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Yohan Blake celebrates winning the men's 100m final in Daegu

Daegu, Korea - Tonight in Daegu stadium the world’s fastest man and defending World champion Usain Bolt was disqualified from the 100m final for false starting (Rule 162.7), in a race which was won by his countryman and training partner Yohan Blake. Following his disqualification from the men's 100m final last night, Usain Bolt, Olympic champion and World record holder for the 100m has this afternoon issued the following statement:

 

“Firstly I would like to congratulate my team mate Yohan Blake and the other athletes who won the medals. Of course I am extremely disappointed not to have had the chance to defend my title due to the false start. I was feeling great through the rounds and was ready to run fast in the final. I worked very hard to get ready for this Championships and things were looking good.

However I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200m on Friday. After this I have the 4x100m and a few other races before the end of the season. I know that I am now in good shape and will focus on running well in the 200m.

Thanks to all the people who sent me good wishes and I will try my best to make you proud in the 200m.”

Here's the race:

 

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The IAAF went out and broke something that did not need fixing when they introduced the one false start rule. Absolutely deflated - woke up early to watch the race and everything. I KNEW something like this would happen, though I never imagined it would be Bolt in a world championship final.

 

Pos. (Bib) Athlete Country Mark React

1 [587] Yohan Blake http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/images/flags/s/JAM.gif JAM 9.92 (SB) 0.174

2 [1073] Walter Dix http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/images/flags/s/USA.gif USA 10.08 0.175

3 [941] Kim Collins http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/images/flags/s/SKN.gif SKN 10.09 0.155

 

Congrats to Yohan and a shout-out to 35-yr old Kim Collins (St. Kitts & Nevis) who won bronze!!!

Edited August 29, 2011 by Shãlïq

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Mike Powell's World Long Jump record celebrates 20th anniversary

 

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Mike Powell jumps 8.95m World record in Tokyo on 30 August 1991

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Daegu, Korea - Some say that across all disciplines it is the greatest ever competition that has taken place in the history of the IAAF World Championships but whatever your opinion there is certainly no forgetting the Men’s Long Jump Final which took place on 30 August 1991 at the 3rd edition of the IAAF World championships in Tokyo, Japan.

 

Since the Mexico Olympics of 1968 the World Long Jump record for the event had stood to Bob Beamon at 8.90m. It was a mark that had attained almost mythical proportions in the minds of all jumpers, a statistic which in many ways transcended not just the event but the sport itself, a distance that most sports fans knew whether they were track and field fans or not, a dead cert inclusion in every sports quiz. The adjective “Beamonesque” had become established sports jargon for legendary feats.

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This time around Dwight Phillips has a ‘wild card’ entry as defending champion but the American has done no better than 8.07m this year.

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Kirani James a Bolt from the Blue

 

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Kirani James © of Grenada crosses the finish line ahead of LaShawn Merritt ® of United States and Kevin Borlee of Belgium (L) in the men's 400 metres final (Getty)

31 August 2011 – Daegu, Korea - Just when everyone thought there was only one Usain Bolt along comes Kirani James to prove otherwise. Ever since he set world age-group records for the 400m as a 14 and 15 year old, the names James and Bolt have been linked like twins. Not that you will find James too keen on the comparison. He already seems to have a clear idea of his own worth: “Usain is special in his own way, but I just want to be Kirani James from Grenada,” he says.

 

Now in his first season on the world stage, the teenager from Grenada who celebrates his 19th birthday tomorrow, September 1, is the World champion after overhauling LaShawn Merritt of the USA in the final few dramatic metres. For such a young man it was a performance worthy of a much older head. Timing his effort to perfection, James let Merritt do the early talking before taking over the reins when it mattered most to claim gold.

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Day 8 SUMMARY - 3 September: Bolt comes through in a big way

 

A historical jaw-dropping display by Usain Bolt was the standout performances on a massively entertaining Day Eight at the IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011. After his false start disqualification in Sunday’s 100m, Bolt was the centre of the attention in this city of 2.5 million How would he bounce back? With a performance quite similar to those which elevated the 25-year-old Jamaican to international superstardom.

 

Coming off the turn with a marginal lead, he blasted away from American Walter Dix as they entered the homestretch and didn’t slow considerably until he crossed the line in 19.40, a time that’s been surpassed on only three occasions – twice by him.

 

Behind him, Dix clocked 19.70, his second fastest performance ever to nab his second silver medal at these Championships while the biggest surprise was bronze medallist Christophe Lemaitre of France, who knocked more than three-tenths of a second from his previous best, landing at 19.80. The Frenchman is now the second fastest European of all-time, and No. 15 all-time. And he’s barely 21.

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Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the men's 200 metres final ahead of Walter Dix of the United States (

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BEASTY:

 

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Men's 4x100m Relay - 37.04 World record for Jamaica

Sunday, September 04, 2011

 

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Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrate victory and a new World Record in the men's 4x100 metres relay final.

Daegu, Korea – It took until the final event, it took until Usain Bolt’s final run, but finally a World record was set in the Daegu 2011 World Championships as Jamaica extended its dominance of the men’s 4x100 metres relay.

But the nightmare continues for USA, which ran a world-leading time in the heats but then failed to complete the final as Darvis Patton collided with Britain’s anchor, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, as he came in to make the final change to Walter Dix.

 

The misfortune for USA and Great Britain handed the silver medal to France, Teddy Tinmar, Christophe Lemaitre, Yannick Lesourd and Jimmy Vicault getting the baton around in 38.20.

The bronze medal went to St Kitts and Nevis, a finalist for the first time, and including the ageless Kim Collins, the individual 100 metres bronze medallist, in its squad. Jason Rogers, Collins, Antoine Adams and Brijesh Lawrence clocked 38.49, 0.02 slower than the national record in the heats, but who cares when a medal is there at the end of it:

 

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Kim Collins, ’World’s Third Fastest Man’, led his St. Kitts & Nevis to a first-ever relay finals and a bronze medal.

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Final Standings:

 

Pos. Country Gold Silver Br. Total

1 UNITED STATES (USA) 12 8 5 25

2 RUSSIA (RUS) 9 4 6 19

3 KENYA (KEN) 7 6 4 17

4 JAMAICA (JAM) 4 4 1 9

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YAAY! http://www.jamaicans.com/forums/images/graemlins/default/jamaica.jpg Jamaica's 4th, and St. Kitts & Nevis won 2 medals in the same championsips for the 1st time ever!!

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Men's Long Jump - Final - Phillips takes record fourth World Champs gold

 

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Daegu, Korea – Dwight Phillips came to Daegu with little more than a formidable reputation and walked away with his fourth Long Jump gold medal in five championships.

 

After Australia’s Mitchell Watt, the World leader this year, could manage only an 8.06 on his final jump, Phillips had the luxury of sprinting down the runway one last time with nothing but the gold medal on his mind. He ran through the pit and pulled off his bib number – ‘1111’ – and held it up to the photographers. Phillips and Watt took contrasting paths through the year. Phillips competed in the Shanghai Samsung Diamond League meeting, finishing fourth behind the Australian, and after failing to qualify by right at the US championships used his champion’s wild card to get to the championships.

 

Ngonidzashe Makusha finished third with 8.29 to take Zimbabwe’s first-ever medal at a World Championships. The 24-year-old, who also made the 100 metres semi-finals here, could have had an even better result – his 8.14 in the third round came from 26 centimetres behind the board.

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A vid I made inspired by Kim Collins:

 

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Douglas Says Everything Possible Done to Honour Kim Collins

 

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Basseterre, St. Kitts –During his radio programme ‘Ask the PM’ on Tuesday 6th September 2011 St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas said the government has done everything possible in honouring local world championship sprinter Kim Collins.

Prime Minister Douglas was at the time responding to a caller and noted the various things the government had done over the years in gratitude to Mr. Collins.

 

“As a Government we are very grateful for the achievements of Kim. We have done everything that we could possibly do to honour him. He is one of our highly respected ambassadors of this country in sports even as he has grown older he seems to get even better and as this we are so grateful for this energetic young man who has become the icon of the young people in St. Kitts and Nevis in so many different ways,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

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