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IAAF 2011 World Champs – Rudisha delivers and Kirani James “arrives”
Day 3 of the IAAF World Championships brought more success for Kenya, in the form of David Rudisha’s anticipated gold in the men’s 800m. It was their third gold of these championships, but may be...
View ArticleBolt’s false start and Blake’s “twitch”– the actual start block data explained
This is a final post on the Bolt false start controversy, since as you’ll all know, there was some talk that Yohan Blake in Lane 6 (immediately to Bolt’s right) might have “twitched” while in the...
View ArticleIAAF 2011 World Champs: USA’s hat-trick on a day of surprises
Six finals, and four nations won medals today, as the USA delivered a hat-trick of titles in what was a day of mild (and big) surprises.The USA’s medals came in the form of Jesse Williams in the high...
View ArticleIAAF World Champs: 800m women, questions but few answers
The women’s 800m event deserves a post all of its own. I’ll post on the rest of the day’s action a little later, but the women’s 800m gold has just been won, and it wasn’t Caster Semenya winning it....
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Bolt vs Farah over 600m. The extremes meet, who wins?
For athletics fans, the prospect of Usain Bolt vs Mo Farah over 600m offers an enthralling spectacle where the most dominant athletes at the extremes of track running test themselves with one foot in...
View ArticleUsain Bolt: 19.19s – you must be kidding
I must confess, I didn’t think the world record would fall. I was pretty sure he’d win, by far, but I felt a 19.4 would be enough, and that another record was just out of reach. Bolt didn’t – he ran...
View ArticleIAAF 2011 World Champs – Kenya’s day
The day 1 medal table at the IAAF World Championships makes for extra-ordinary reading. There’s only one team on it – Kenya. It a display of unparalleled dominance, Kenya took every single medal on...
View ArticleDay 2: False starts and flying finishes
So if Day 1 produced dominance for Kenya, Day 2 produced drama. It was, in the day’s two track finals, a day full of drama. It began with an incredible final lap sprint in the men’s 10,000m final, and...
View ArticleThe Blake-Bolt false start dispute
So it may be a new day, but perhaps not surprisingly, the debate about the men’s 100m final has continued. But with one unexpected twist. Rather than talking about the “what if Bolt had not false...
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