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9 successes and 3 records for Global Sports
On the final day of the Olympic Games Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia wins the ninth medal for Global Sports Communication. The medal is the last of nine big successes, of which six gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal.

800m All-Time-Best list updated

Beijing - Ramzi Rolls Last 400m to Gold

Isinbayeva Gold Vault, Mokoena Silver, Taylor truimphs
For IsinbayevaIssi Gold Vault, Beijing was paved with Gold as she vaulted to 5m 05 cm and the top of the podium as she moved the World Record up another centimeter.

Jelimo in 800m supremacy and Steeple glory for Kipruto
Glory days beckon for the Beijing Women's Olympic Champion over 800m.     Pamela Jelimo cemented her reputation as the most exciting 800m athlete to grace the oval arena in the last decade with an awe inspiring performance on her way to setting yet another World Junior Record this year.

Galkina and Bekele stars of the night
The performance of Russia's Galkina was mesmerising as she strove to exorcise the demons of Osaka 2007 by winning the Women's 3000m SteepleChase in a new World Record time of 8:58.81 at the Beijing Olympic stadium this evening.

Dita continues tradition of early breakaways
The Olympic Games Marathon races over the past few decades have all witnessed early break away attempts and the often unveiling of a new Olympic Marathon Champion of a less fancied winner.

Bolt - Majestic Superb Superfluous
There are truly no words that can describe the simply awesome display of sprinting that Jamaica's Usain Bolt delivered to win the Men's 100m title at the Beijing Olympics.

Beijing Olympics - Dibaba wins brilliant 10000m
The Women's 10000m final at the Beijing Olympics was a simply brilliant display of distance running by Ethiopia's Tirenish Dibaba and Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse, who both went under the magical 30 minute barrier for the distance. Dibaba prevailed in winning in a time of 29:54.66, new Olympic Record, only going to the front with 300m to go.

NYRR's Breakdown: Men's and Women's Marathons
Men and Women's elite field for New York City Marathon 2008

Isinbayeva & Rooney are Euro Athletes of July
Russia’s queen of the Pole Vault Yelena Isinbayeva and Britain’s latest 400m star Martyn Rooney have been voted the European Athletes of the Month for July.

Marathoners Set Sights on Olympic Glory
When the world's top marathon runners take to the streets of Beijing later this month at the Olympic Games they will be competing for more than gold, silver and bronze. For the first time since the launch of the World Marathon Majors Series in 2006, the Olympic Games will be counted in the scoring.

Isinbayeva another record and the doping busts
We failed to shoot out a comment regarding Yelena Isinbayeva's Pole Vault record this week in Monaco but had to cover the massive Russian Doping Scandal that occurred.

Seven Russian athletes on Doping Suspensions

Defar goes close to 5000m World record
Stockholm, Sweden – Great athletics was on display at the annual DN Galan meeting, part of the Super Grand Prix status meeting within the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2008.

NZ: Blincoe breaks Quax's 5000m record
Heusden Belgium Adrian Blincoe broke Dick Quax's 31 year old New Zealand National 5000m record at the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden Belgium last evening. Blincoe, aged 28, finished 11th in 13m 10.19s to beat Quax's then world record of 13m 12.87s, set in Stockholm on 5 July 1977.

Jelimo clocks new World Junior 800m record in Paris
The Pamela Jelimo steam train keeps steaming towards records of a various kind and this time, another new World Junior record in the 800m with her winning time of 1:54.97 at the Golden League meeting in Paris.

Vlasic & Idowu, Euro Athletes of the Month of June

UNESCO renews its cooperation with European Athletics 

BOA Announce Athletics Members for Beijing 2008

Brussels to host 2008 Euro Cross Country Champs
European Athletics is pleased to announce that the 2008 SPAR European Cross Country Championships will take place in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Sunday December 14.

Isinbayev another World Record ala Bubka style
The Roma Golden League Track series sees a new World Record set in the pole vault by Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva.

Blog: Site Status Development and Comment
Well it certainly has been a while since we provided an update and a blog posting of any sort.

Portugal to host the first SPAR European Team Champs in 2009.

Volunteers needed for study on hamstring and quadricep strength
Venue: UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, University of Cape Town. As a participant in this study, you will be asked to perform a maximal contraction of the hamstring and quadriceps muscles on a machine that will measure the force you can produce.