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Bolt out till 2011 — manager

Tuesday August 10, 2010

Usain Bolt’s manager says the Olympic sprint champion is taking the rest of 2010 off because of tightness in his lower back.

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Bolt wants Olympic gold ahead of record

Friday July 30, 2010

Usain Bolt says that his biggest goal at the London Olympics in two years’ time will be simply to win the 100 metres gold medal again, even though he believes the distance can be run in a record breaking 9.4-second range.

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SA team picked for Peru

Friday July 23, 2010

A team of eight surfers will fly the flag for South Africa at the 2010 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games in Punta Hermosa, Peru from 19-27 October.

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Van Dyk in historic handover

Friday July 16, 2010

Irene van Dyk made sporting history in Wellington on Friday when she became the first woman to hand the Springbok rugby side their rugby jerseys ahead of Saturday’s second Tri-Nations rugby Test against the All Blacks.

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Gymnasts robbed but coach hits back

Friday July 9, 2010

Two members of the South Africans acrobatic gymnastics team who are in Wroclaw, Poland, for the world championships, became victims of crime two days after the team’s arrival.

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Royal wedding for Olympian Wittstock?

Wednesday June 23, 2010

Prince Albert II of Monaco on Wednesday announced his engagement to 32-year-old former South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock.

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Bolt on the back foot after injury

Tuesday June 1, 2010

It appears that sprinting superstar Usain Bolt is human after all.

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Bolt flies Africa’s flag for World Cup

Friday May 21, 2010

When Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, races in striking new Lava spikes at the 2010 IAAF Diamond League Series in Shanghai, China this weekend, he will show his support of the African football teams headed to the World Cup.

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Sprinter Ben Johnson’s coach dies

Thursday May 13, 2010

Charlie Francis, the disgraced former coach of scandal-plagued Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, died on Wednesday aged 60 after a five-year battle with cancer, his family said in a statement.

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Austrian retires after drug scandal

Wednesday May 5, 2010

Austrian marathon runner Eva-Maria Gradwoh ended her career after refusing to take a doping test. Read more…

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