Heptathlon Update in the Bird's Nest Just a quick update as of August 15, Friday, on the heptathlon: Diana Pickler of the U.S. has been listed as a DNS for the high jump, which is the second event. Pickler fell in a heap after finishing her 100m hurdle...

The Beijing Olympic track meet has turned into a downright disaster for the American Team especially when their 4x100m teams dropped the batons. Darvis Patton and Tyson Gay misconnected on the final pass in preliminaries of the 400-meter relay Thursday...

North Dakota State's Weston Leutz set a personal record in the decathlon with 7,178 points in Bydgoszcz, Poland and finished 10th out of 19 competitors last Thursday (July 10) at the IAAF World Junior Championships. It was Germany's Jan Felix Knobel wh...

It has stunned not only the Chinese people, but the whole world as Liu Xiang's sudden painful walk-out from the 2008 Olympic Hurdles Event has deprived all of us a moment that had, since 2004 (when he won the 110m hurdles at the Athens Games), been awaite...

Last August 16, in Beijing, we saw a massive upset in the semifinal heat of the 100-meter sprint when one of the pre-race favorites, Tyson Gay, failed to qualify by 0.02 seconds. It was supposed to be the scene for the biggest race of the Beijing 2008 Oly...

It was Jamaica Night again at the National Stadium, this time with Veronica Campbell-Brown doing the honors, easily winning the 200 meters Thursday to cap the first sweep of all four men's and women's Olympic sprints in 20 years. The defending Olympic...

Last Friday Morning, track favorites Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, and Tyson Gay all made it through their first rounds of the men's 100 meter-dash at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing. These crowd favorites are all reigning sub 9.8 second-runners. But in their ...

Party lover Bolt added the 19.30 -- 0.02 better than Johnson's old mark -- to the 9.69 he ran the 100 four nights before when he hot-dogged the final 20 meters to set the world record. Everyone thought he could've done better in the 100 had he run har...

Nike's celebrity Liu Xiang, said he was sorry for his dramatic withdrawal from the Olympics but that he had no choice because pain from a foot injury became unbearable. "There's so many people concerned about me and who support me. I feel very sorry. ...

In 2005, Paul Rotter is considerably the single largest and most successful individual futures trader in the world, completing trades on the Eurex exchange primarily in the Bund, but also in the Bobl and Schatz interest rate futures. He trades between 200...

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