Usain Bolt News

American Tyson Gay, right, beat Jamaica's Usain Bolt at the 2007 world championships, but the Jamaican has taken sprinting to an unprecedented level since.

You know you've transcended your sport when you get an ESPN Sportscenter commercial.

Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards were named the 2009 Jesse Owens Award recipients on Thursday, the second time that each has earned the USA Track and Field honour.

Oscar Pistorius. Image credit: photograph by Elvar Plsson, via Wikimedia Commons.

World and Olympics triple gold medallist Usain Bolt has decided to take a year long break.

Professor Gordon Shirley , principal of the University of the West Indies , Mona, exchange documents with Glen Mills , president of Racers Track Club, during the official launch of the UWI Athletics Initiative and 2009/10 Seminar Series at the UWI Mona Visitors' Lodge yesterday.

Longer toes may be one reason why sprinters are different from rest of us weekend joggers and couch potatoes.

The West Indies ought to be disbanded as a cricketing force. Followers of the game with memories of mighty deeds and fine gentlemen might regret the break-up but the culture has been ruined and every attempt to improve it thwarted.

Based on his popularity and spectacular year, Bolt is the front runner for this year's award.

High achievements: Hooker produced an injury-defying performance to take out the world championship in Berlin in August.

Bolt and Bekele on short list Olympic and world champion sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds Lightning Bolt, a three-month-old male cheetah cub, at the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters in Nairobi.

Anthony Foster, Gleaner Writer World sprint king Usain Bolt will not resume training until later this month, so says the athlete's coach, Glen Mills.

It might have been snowing in Metro yesterday, but that didn't derail the full-speed-ahead planning and preparation for the Moncton 2010 IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships.

Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills is to step down after 22 years in charge of the Jamaican athletics team.

More than two decades later, the story hasn't changed for the fabled Jamaican bobsled team.

World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has come face-to-face with his match for speed in the animal world -- a cheetah.

World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt shows off a three-month-old male cheetah at the Kenyan Wildlife Service headquarters in Nairobi on Nov.

Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Paul Deighton and David Higgins, the men running the 2012 Olympics, will this week unveil a 700m investment opportunity.

The world's fastest man adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter today, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named "Lightning Bolt" into his life.