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T&T sprinter 3rd in NY Diamond League meet Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Keston Bledman grabbed men's 100 metres bronze at the IAAF Diamond League in New York, USA yesterday, but missed out on his personal best.

Former world champion Tyson Gay, free from injury for one of the few times in recent years, blitzed his rivals on Saturday to win the 100 metres at the Diamond League Grand Prix in New York.

The Kenyan star set the world record while winning the 800 meters at last summer's Olympics, which might not seem so surprising considering he broke his own mark.

David Rudisha, the reigning 800m Olympic gold medalist, is a modest, soft-spoken man, so much so that reporters can barely hear him at press conferences because of his tendency to speak so quietly.

TROWBRIDGE sprint star Danny Talbot is hoping he's on the right track for this summer's major competitions after a pleasing start to his new outdoor season.

Sanya Richards-Ross, the reigning Olympic champion in the 400 meters and the 4 x 400m relay, is feeling great after undergoing toe surgery eight months ago.

MY favourite cable television advertisement currently running in prime time is a dramatic 30-second promotion of XFINITY's Internet service starring Usain Bolt.

Nonethe-less, he has still managed to make slow but steady progress. He closed last season well with a 9.97-second clocking in Brussels in September.

Banned from athletics for four years after testing positive for steroids in 2006, Gatlin stormed back in 2012, winning the 60m at the World Indoors in Istanbul before taking bronze in the 100m at the London Olympic Games.

In his first interview since signing a professional track contract with adidas Wednesday, however, Bracy told the Sentinel on Saturday that he came to a crossroads while juggling two sports and battling injuries his first year at Florida State .

As usual, she wore a broad smile after stepping off the track, this time at the Hamad Bin Suhaim Stadium, but Jamaican sprinting star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was far from pleased with her winning 22.48 run in the 200m at the Diamond League opener in Doha, Qatar, yesterday.

Running is a quicker way from Point A to Point B for some people, but for others it is a talent few can surpass.

Andre Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter Olympic double sprint champion and world record holder Usain Bolt wasn't exactly in vintage form, but he still managed to deliver the win his fans expected in his 100m season opener at the Cayman Islands Invitational in the Truman Bodden Sports Complex a short while ago.

In this Aug. 4, 2012, file photo, Tyson Gay competes in a men's 100-meter heat at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

USAIN Bolt, the 100 and 200m world record holder, will definitely be competing in the shorter sprint at the Cayman Invitational.

Jamaica's Veronica Camp-bell-Brown won the women's 100 metres in 11.01 seconds while the men's 100 metres went to American Tyson Gay in 9.86 seconds at the Jamaica Inter-national Invitational meet at the National Stadium last night.

Tyson Gay of the United States wins the men's 100 meters at the Jamaica international invitational at the national stadium in Kingston, May 4. He won with a time of 9.86 beating Jamaica's Nesta Carter and Davis Patton of US.

In spite of the forced withdrawals of two of the biggest drawing cards to the meet, organisers of today's 10th staging of the Jamaica International Invitational believe that the IAAF World Challenge series meet still boast enough star-power to rival any meet on the planet.

There will be a big Nike Oregon Project Presence tonight at the Oregon Twilight at Hayward Field in Eugene, and keep your eye on the men's 800 meters.

Despite the absence of three of the biggest names in the sport of track and field, athlete liaison Donald Quarrie is hopeful there will not be a fallout in attendance at the upcoming Jamaica International Invitational.