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Asafa Powell News

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10 hrs ago | Telegraph.co.uk

Asafa Powell upstages British athletes at Gateshead International Stadium

Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news.

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Related Topix: Summer Sports, Sports, Olympics, Christine Ohuruogu, Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Lisa Dobriskey

Wed Sep 03, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu thankful for support and returning to the track

Christine Ohuruogu tops the bill at the Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead and is looking forward to following in the footsteps of Usain Bolt with regard to her end-of-season celebrations.

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Related Topix: Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Sanya Richards, Phillips Idowu, Tyson Gay

Tue Sep 02, 2008

BBC Sports

Powell clocks second fastest 100m

Jamaica's Asafa Powell ran the second fastest 100m in history at the Athletissima Grand Prix on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Summer Sports, Usain Bolt, Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games

Mon Sep 01, 2008

Sports News from Times Online

Gateshead provides a damb squib after Beijing

All that passion for athletics that we television viewers found in ourselves during the Olympics - it can't have just disappeared out of the back door of the Bird's Nest on board Boris Johnson's magic bus, can ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Phillips Idowu, Tasha Danvers, Olympic Summer Games, Opinion

Trinidad & Tobago Express

Bolting to endorsement gold --

Richard Thompson, right, holds his silver medal next to Jamaica's Usain Bolt holding the gold.

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Related Topix: Richard Thompson, Summer Sports, Usain Bolt, Sports, Swimming

Sun Aug 31, 2008

North County Times

Asafa Powell wins 100 at British GP

GATESHEAD, England - Asafa Powell rebounded from another disappointing Olympics by winning the 100 meters in 9.87 seconds at the British Grand Prix on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Sports, Summer Sports, Olympics, Lauryn Williams, Bernard Lagat, Tyson Gay, Wallace Spearmon

Sat Aug 30, 2008

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Olympian Bolt adds 400 relay to 100 in Zurich

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt adds 400-meter relay at meet in Zurich ZURICH, Switzerland - Three-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt will run the 400-meter relay along with the 100 at Friday's ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Keston Bledman, Summer Sports, Walter Dix, Darvis Patton

Sports Jamaica

The best of Jamaica

I was in London during the Olympics. All I can say is, forget the complaints of a few.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Melaine Walker, Summer Sports, Usain Bolt

Fri Aug 29, 2008

The Star Online

Bolt glad to return to his day job - running

ZURICH: After all the Olympic hoopla, Usain Bolt said on Wednesday he just wants to get back to his day job.

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Related Topix: Olympic Track And Field, Summer Sports, Usain Bolt, Richard Thompson, Calvin Smith, Walter Dix

Sunday Times

Jamaica scotches doping talk

Jamaican track and field officials were quick Saturday to scotch any rumours that their star Olympic medalling athletes were doped, saying that more than half of the team had been tested in Beijing.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Track And Field, Summer Sports, Sherone Simpson, Usain Bolt

Thu Aug 28, 2008

Shanghai Daily

Athletics finds hero in Bolt

Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates after his team won the men's 4x100m relay athletics final in the National Stadium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Friday.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Tyson Gay

China Daily

Official: 37 world records shattered in Olympics

A total of 37 world records had been broken at the Beijing Olympic Games by August 21, organizers said on Friday.

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Related Topix: Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Olympic Swimming

Wed Aug 27, 2008

Washington Times

Bolt not done yet

Agence France-Presse / Getty Images Usain Bolt won three gold medals and set two individual world records at the 2008 Olympics.

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Related Topix: Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Olympic Track And Field, Tyson Gay

Trinidad & Tobago Express

the Best -- Boldon hails T&T Olympic effort

"The best Olympic performance in my lifetime by a Trinidad and Tobago team." This assessment was made by quadruple Olympic medallist Ato Boldon, who is at the 2008 Olympic Games here in Beijing, China, as part ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Usain Bolt, Summer Sports

Tue Aug 26, 2008

Detroit News

Commentary: IOC's Rogge needs to lighten up about Bolt

Usain Bolt had just won his third gold medal of the Olympics at the Bird's Nest Friday and, boy, was Jacques Rogge going to be ticked.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Summer Sports, Olympic Swimming, Usain Bolt, Michael Frater

RTE.ie

Olympics 2008 Athletics Review

Treble gold medallist Usain Bolt dominated track and field events at the Olympic Games, spearheading a Jamaican team to sprint glory over their faltering US archrivals.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Usain Bolt, Olympic Track And Field, Summer Sports, Gulnara Galkina-Samitova

SportingLife.com

Ohuruogu Confirmed for Gateshead

Olympic 400metres gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu will top the bill at the Aviva British Grand Prix on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Olympic Track And Field, Summer Sports, Usain Bolt, Nesta Carter, Tirunesh Dibaba, Melaine Walker

Jamaica Gleaner

Public Affairs - Prejudice in Jamaican politics

The following is an excerpt from the address given to the People's National Party's St Catherine East Central constituency conference at the GC Foster College in Spanish Town on August 17 by party president ...

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Related Topix: Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Sports, Olympics, Michael Frater, Sherone Simpson, Kerron Stewart

Mon Aug 25, 2008

Cleveland.com

Commentary: U.S. focus got way off track

Three races. Three gold medals. Three world records. For America, these Olympics belong to Michael Phelps.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Summer Sports, Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Bryan Clay

China Daily

Beckham praises Beijing Games, backs Bolt's right to gloat

Crowd-pleaser David Beckham applauded Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Saturday for his showmanship in smashing three world records.

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Related Topix: Usain Bolt, Summer Sports, Olympic Soccer, Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games

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Olympic Medal Count

    Total
1 China 51 21 28 100
2 United States 36 38 36 110
3 Russian Fed. 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47
5 Germany 16 10 15 41
6 Australia 14 15 17 46
7 Korea 13 10 8 31
8 Japan 9 6 10 25
9 Italy 8 10 10 28
10 France 7 16 17 40

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