Oh boy. Seems like an Olympic gold for Liu Xiang in the Beijing Games isn’t a sure thing after all. Who could grab the gold from him? Cuban Dayron Robles who just set a new world record in the 110 meter hurdles. From the AP: Dayron Robles of Cuba has set a world record in [...]
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Tatyana Lysenko: Doper?
Arrghh. Here’s another athlete we are including in our doper’s Hall of Shame: Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko, the world record holder for the hammer throw. She failed a drug test according to the IAAF and has been banned for two years. She will miss the Beijing Olympics and her results from the past two years have [...]
Olympian to Watch: Veronica Campbell, Jamaican Sprinter
Will Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell win a sprint double in the Beijing Olympics? She is the defending champion in the 100 meters and she won a gold medal for the 200 meters in the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan. PHOTO CREDIT: AFP/Getty Images
Joachim Olsen: Denmark’s Flag Bearer
Joachim Olsen, shot put bronze medalist during the Athens 2004 Olympiad, will be carrying the flag for Denmark during the opening ceremonies in Beijing. Denmark’s top officials and members of the Danish royalty — unlike some of them party poopers we know — will be there to cheer for Joachim and the whole Danish team. [...]
Yuriy Borzakovskiy: On His Training, Cooking, and His Rivals
Earlier, we brought you how Australia’s Brenton Rickard trains for the Olympics. Now, let’s have Olympic 800m champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy tell us something about his training: I train twice a day, six days per week. With this I need 8 to 9 hours of sleep each night and one-and-a-half hours of sleep in the afternoon. [...]
