Athens 2004 silver medalist Denis Nizhegorodov (left) set a new world record in the 50 km walk by clocking three hours, 34 minutes and 14 seconds at the World Race Walking Cup on Sunday, 11 May, according to a Reuters report. The 27-year-old Russian bettered the time of 3:35.47 set by Australian Nathan Deakes on [...]
Posts on ‘May 12th, 2008’
China’s Over-Training
Will China overtake the United States in the Olympic medal race? Some crystal ball gazers think so but China’s drive for Olympic dominance might be stalled by over-training. From AFP: When Frenchman Christian Bauer saw the Chinese fencing team he was hired to train for the Olympics the first thing he did was to send [...]
Olympic Medal Prediction: China Will Top the Medal Race
China will emerge as the new overall Olympic champion when the final medal tally is counted in Beijing. Says who? Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University who predict that the host nation will win 46 gold medals during the Beijing Olympics. From BBC: “China has set its stall out to become the number one nation in [...]
Show Us the Money
Nigerian athletes who, as we blogged about earlier, were “directed” by their President to produce eight gold medals in Beijing are not happy with the grants given them and have vowed to fight for more funding. From the Sunday Tribune: Apparently afraid of experiencing what athletes have had in the past as regards shabby treatment [...]
Olympian to Watch: Zara Phillips
She’s the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth and the reigning eventing world champion. She is some kind of a model too. Zara was recently named to the British equestrian team going to the Beijing Olympic Games. She will be following the footsteps of her father, Mark Phillips, who won the gold medal at the three-day event [...]
