BLUNDERING athletics officials set a barrier too high causing chaos in the women’s 3000m steeplechase at the prestigious Diamond League meeting in Oslo. The barrier by the 1500m start was wrongly set at the MEN’S height of 36 inches – six inches higher than the women’s height – at the Bislett Games on Thursday. And […]
USAIN BOLT has won everything there is to win as an Olympic sprinter, and now he is set to live another lifelong dream as he plays football at Old Trafford in Soccer Aid. The Jamaican 100 metre legend has repeatedly said that he hopes to play for Manchester United one day, and while he will […]
JAMAICAN sprint king Usain Bolt made his footballing debut for Norwegian team Stromsgodset as he prepares to appear in Sunday’s Soccer Aid at Old Trafford. Bolt, the fastest man ever, had a 20-minute cameo on Tuesday and wearing the No 9.58 – a reference to his 100metre world record set in 2009. But it wasn’t […]
DOUBLE World Champion hurdler and 2005 Strictly star Colin Jackson had to abandon a potential cricket career because he suffered so badly with hay fever. Jackson, who took gold in the 110m hurdles at the World Championships in 1993 and 1994, said he played cricket for his county as a teenager but had to quit because […]
OLYMPIC champion Asbel Kiprop claims he paid drug testers because he “thought they wanted the money for fuel or tea”. Kiprop, who won 1500m gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and also has three world titles, tested positive for the blood boosting drug EPO after an out-of-competition test in Iten, Kenya in November 2017. […]