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Athletics: Usain Bolt's coach calls for crackdown on Jamaican drug cheats

Source: Daily Express

“It’s definitely a time for the nation to step forward and provide a service that athletes can use to ensure the purity of substances they have to use for treatment or whatever,” said Mills. Campbell-Brown faces a two ...
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Bolt Rebounds in Oslo 200 Meters

Source: About.com: Track and Field

Yes, Usain Bolt will lose an occasional sprint race, but you can count on him to bounce back strongly following those defeats, as he did at Oslo's Bislett Games last Thursday. Bolt lost a 100-meter race to Justin Gatlin in the previous Diamond League me ...
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Football: Tahiti outclassed in Confederations Cup opener

Source: Newstalk ZB

Oceania qualifiers Tahiti have been thumped in their opening game of football's Confederations Cup 6-1 by Nigeria in Brazil. The island nation scored a historic goal through Jonathan Tehau in the 54th minute, but were ul ...
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Jamaica must set up its own dope-testing lab, says Usain Bolt's coach

Source: SCMP

Jamaica's government needs to set up an accredited anti-doping laboratory to protect its world-class athletes from taking contaminated substances, the coach of world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt says. Glen Mills, who mentors Bolt ...
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Watch Usain Bolt drive an F1 replicar, slowly: Record-setter probably could've run the track faster

Source: Auto Week

In 2009, Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt shattered the world record for the 100-meter sprint, crossing the line in just 9.58 seconds. In 2013, Bolt broke another record: Driving a Formula One car more slowly than we' ...
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No, You Can't Outrun a Tsunami

Source: LiveScience.com

Houses above the inundation zone in this Japanese village survived intact, while everything below was destroyed by the 2011 tsunami. CREDIT: Patrick Corcoran, Oregon State University Maybe the fastest man in the world could run a 6-minute mile for 6 mil ...
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The World's Sporting Dream Makers

Source: Forbes

Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to attend the 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Every year Laureus celebrates the achievements of global sports stars; this year Olympians Jessica Ennis, Michael Phelps an ...
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Fun Facts about the Forbes 2013 World’s Highest Paid Athletes

Source: Blueprint for Financial Prosperity

So who makes up the top five? Tiger Woods, Roger Rederer, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Drew Brees. Total take? $322.3 million. If you add the second half of the top ten, total earnings is $552.50 million. In fact, if the t ...
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Scientists create headless cat robot for use in search and rescue missions

Source: Digital Trends

Though it lacks a head, fur, whiskers and a miaow-ing sound, the ‘cheetah-cub robot’, developed by researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has unmistakably been modeled on a cat. The name’s a bit of a give ...
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Report: doping was widespread among Dutch cyclists

Source: NBC Sports

PFT: Mike Munchak is a Hall of Fame offensive lineman turned head coach, and with young O-line prospects like Chance Warmack, he's in his element this season. PHT: The Blackhawks' power play remains feckless, giving them an apparent hanidcap as ...
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