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Calculating Time Lost by Bolt’s Celebration

A physicist has done the math and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter final at the Beijing Olympics in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.

Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 10:14 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Track and Field, Bolt, Usain

Sprinter’s Moment Is Foiled by One Step Over the Line

Wallace Spearmon’s bronze medal disappeared when the scoreboard replaced his time of 19.95 seconds with a “DQ” for disqualification.

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:50 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running

Sprinters Marvel at Bolt and Are Sure That His Best Is Yet to Come

More than 24 hours had passed since Usain Bolt’s redefining of the 100 meters, and some are increasingly warning that the record in the 200 meters is on borrowed time.

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 10:37 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Bolt, Usain, Johnson, Michael

A Runner's Quest: Lagat Falls Short of Last Qualifying Spot for 1,500

World champion Bernard Lagat of the U.S. failed to qualify for the Olympic 1,500 meters final on Sunday and American hopes of their first title in the event for 100 years are over.

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 1:46 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Lagat, Bernard

Abdirahman Runs in Memory of His Best Friend

Abdi Abdirahman lost his best friend last November at the Olympic trials marathon in Central Park, where Ryan Shay collapsed and died of a heart ailment at 28.

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:23 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Shay, Ryan, Abdirahman, Abdi

An Artful Jogger in Beijing: The Pollution Is Not an Issue

While these certainly are not good conditions for preparing to run a marathon — too hot and humid — they are not much worse than summer days in Princeton, N.J.

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:22 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Beijing (China), Olympic Games (2008), Running, Exercise, Air Pollution, Jogging

Sports Of the Times: In the 100, a Show of Flash After a Burst of Speed

On Saturday night at the Bird’s Nest an island best known for beaches and reggae suddenly had the Olympic spotlight all to itself.

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 4:36 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Swimming, Track and Field, Gay, Tyson, Jamaica, Bolt, Usain, Phelps, Michael, Powell, Asafa

Seven to Watch as Games Start Shifting From Pool to Track

Track and field is about to take center stage at the Beijing Games, taking an imaginary torch from swimming and carrying it through the rest of the Olympics.

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:58 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Olympic Games, Track and Field

Essay: Running on Fumes in Beijing

Will a training plan survive the air, heat and humidity of China?

Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 10:51 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Beijing (China), Olympic Games (2008), Running, Weather, Air Pollution

Up a Mountain, an Olympic Dream Is Carved

Olympians visit the punishing mountain trail, known as the Incline, for the most basic workout of them all: Man versus Hill.

Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:16 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Triathlon, Gardner, Rulon, Ohno, Apolo Anton, Colorado

Pride of Jamaica in the Spotlight

Officials in Jamaica, a country known for producing sprinting champions, said they should be doing more to ensure that their premier sport was clean.

Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:01 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Steroids, Olympic Games (2008), Running, Track and Field, Jones, Marion, Law and Legislation, Doping, Jamaica, Bolt, Usain, Wint, Arthur, Campbell, Veronica, Ottey, Merlene, McKenley, Herb, Stewart, Kerron, Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization, International Association of Athletics Federations, Powell, Asafa

Uncommonly Big Hearts May Not Harm Athletes

Dr. Paul Thompson, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital, said it is now known that if the heart is healthy, there is never a point at which it is too big.

Posted Sunday, July 06, 2008 10:12 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Bicycles and Bicycling, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Heart, Hartford Hospital

Cramp Sidelines Gay at Trials

The United States Olympic track and field trials turned disastrous for Tyson Gay as an awkward step sent him tumbling to the track. He sustained a severe cramp in his left hamstring.

Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:23 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Gay, Tyson

For a Wife and a Husband, a Win and a Loss

Kara Goucher won the first major race of her career Friday night in the 5,000 meters, but she watched her husband, Adam Goucher, fail to make the Olympic team in the 10,000.

Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:03 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Running, Goucher, Kara, Goucher, Adam

At Trials, One Goucher Is In, and One Is Out

Kara Goucher surged ahead in the final half-lap to win the first major race of her career in the 5,000 meters. Her husband, Adam, was not as lucky.

Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:25 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments