Kim Collins News

Years from now, you would hope that when you summoned a memory of Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, that memory recollection would come from the marquee race of the Olympic track meet.

American sprinter Tyson Gay won the 100 meters, edging Jamaican Asafa Powell at the Daegu Pre-Championships Meet.

Kim Collins announces his retirement Carol Phillip- Tudor "I discovered girls like boys who run fast," answered Kim Anderson Collins when inquiries were made into how he had started and has continued to have such passion for the genre of track and field.

Former 100-metre World Champion Kim Collins, of St Kitts and Nevis, has announced he is retiring from track and field.

St. Kitts & Nevis - " September 15, 2009 : St. Kitts-Nevis sports icon Kim Collins announced his retirement from competitive athletics Monday.

Tyson Gay won his first race since a second-place finish at the world championships, then said he would be having surgery at the end of the season to cure a lingering groin injury.

Former Willamette University runner Nick Symmonds took first place Monday in the men's 800 meters at the British Grand Prix international track and field meet.

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Martial Mbandjock of France, Jamaican Usain Bolt, David Alerte of France and Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis compete in the 200m heat 2nd round at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, yesterday.

Canada's Jared Connaughton reacts after being disqualified from the 200-metre quarter-finals. All three Canadians in the men's 200 metres at the world track and field championships were eliminated in Tuesday's quarter-finals in Berlin.

A year ago tonight, Usain Bolt toyed with history. Twenty metres from the finish of the 100m at the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Jamaican sprinter slowed down, slapping his chest and thigh before winning a gold medal like no athlete before him.

DOUBLE Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson is among 19 TT athletes selected by the National Association of Athletic Administration to compete at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany from August 15 to 23.

Jamaica's Olympic silver medallist Sherone Simpson, who underwent surgery on her knee late last year, has returned to the track.

To Baltimore's Bernard Williams, the bronze medal he won in the 100 meters at the VIII World Championships of Track and Field yesterday was as good as gold.

Usain Bolt will use his outing at the fourth meeting of the Golden League series to finetune preparations for an assault on next month's World Athletics Championships.

Usain Bolt is using the Areva Meeting on Friday as a tuneup for next month's world championships.

Former Olympic champion Yury Borzakovsky won the 800 meters in cold and rainy conditions at the Znamensky Brothers Memorial meet near Moscow on Sunday.

St Kitts and Nevis veteran Kim Collins registered his first international win of the season and the US Virgin Islands' Laverne Jones-Ferrette completed the 100-metre double for the Caribbean at the IX European Athletics Festival on Wednesday night.

AFTER shunning the limelight, celebrated sprint coach Glen Mills yielded to the support of friends to formalise the Racers Track & Field Club, which was officially launched Tuesday night at Jamaica Trade and Invest, Trafalgar Road.