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Ben Johnson ran his first competitive race in close to two decades on Tuesday, competing at a Toronto meet in a celebrity relay. His team won.
“Exhausted,” he said, sitting inside the University of Toronto’s stadium. “I’m in good shape, but my cardio is really bad. My breathing, you know? It’s bad. But my running style is OK.” (Photo: Darren Calabrese/National Post)
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Shocking new images of the crime scene from Oscar Pistorius’ house were published on Friday by Sky News, including a photo of the bloody bathroom where he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. There was also an eerie photo of the Valentine’s Day present the law graduate and model left for the double-amputee Olympian — the enveloped is labelled with her nickname for him (Ozzy) and she left some candy hearts.
Steenkamp was killed on Valentine’s Day. There is no dispute of whether Pistorius killed her, but his murder trial will centre on whether it was an accident or premeditated. (Photo: SkyNews/Framegrab)
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Runners take part in the Color Run 5-kilometre race in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photos: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images)
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Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity. Over the weekend, he posted a photograph on Twitter of him lying on a couch at his home with seven yellow Tour de France jerseys mounted on the wall.
Here is star hurdler Lolo Jones in her first World Cup bobsled competition.
Reigning world champion Kaillie Humphries of Calgary won the gold medal in the bobsled season-opener, beating the United States team of Jones and Jazmine Fenlator.
Humphries and brakewoman Chelsea Valois of Zenon Park, Sask., finished the two runs at Lake Placid in one minute 54.86 seconds 0.47 seconds ahead of Fenlator and Jones, a two-time Olympian in hurdles.
Kiss of death? Ideally, Jim Leyland would have everybody hug it out and play ball.
Just as Detroit’s Justin Verlander and Coco Crisp of Oakland did on the field for Monday’s workout day ahead of their teams’ Game 3 in the AL division series Tuesday. The Tigers lead 2-0 and are one win from advancing to a second straight AL championship series.
Leyland insists reliever Al Alburquerque meant no ill will toward the Athletics when he fielded Yoenis Cespedes’ ninth-inning comebacker and quickly kissed the ball before throwing to first. Yet the manager disagreed with the display.
“Everybody always says I’m from the old school, so I’d have probably hugged it first,” Leyland joked. “I don’t think it was the right thing to do. I will sit here today and I will not try to defend it. I will say that I can assure everybody, including the Oakland A’s, Al Alburquerque did nothing intentionally to offend the Oakland A’s. A lot of emotion is shown in different ways in the game anymore. You see a lot of different variations of personal celebrations as well as team celebrations.
“It wasn’t a smart thing to do, but I can honestly tell you that there is no way that Al Alburquerque or any members of the Detroit Tigers would ever do anything intentionally to offend another team. It just would not happen,” Leyland said. (Photo: AP/The Detroit News, Robin Buckson)
Oscar Pistorius completed his groundbreaking dual-games trip to London by finally winning an individual gold, defending his Paralympic 400 metres title in the last competition in the Olympic Stadium on Saturday.
The original “Blade Runner” lost his 100 and 200 Paralympic titles this week, but eased to victory in his preferred 400 event in 46.68 seconds, more than 3 seconds ahead of Blake Leeper of the United States.
“It was very, very special for me — it was the last event of my season, it was the last event of the London 2012 Games,” said Pistorius, who anchored South Africa’s 4×100 relay team to victory on Wednesday. “It was my 11th time I was able to come out on the track and I just wanted to end and give the crowd something they would appreciate and take home with them.
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Poland’s Lukasz Mamczarz starts his run up during the men’s high jump F42 final at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. He won bronze in the event.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt has a clear focus on the next Summer Games. His plans for the 2013 season? They’re not so clear.
Bolt said Wednesday that he’s looking forward to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, though has yet to decide which events he will compete in at the world championship season next year.
“If I can go to Rio and really defend all my titles, that would make it even greater,” Bolt said ahead of the Weltklasse Diamond League meeting on Thursday.
With just two races remaining this season — the 200 metres in Zurich and a 100 in Brussels next week — his future plans have attracted more attention.
Bolt has revived his old flirtation with adding the long jump to his usual program of 100 and 200 metres and 4×100 relay in Jamaica colours at the 2013 world championships in Moscow or beyond.
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Canada has been disqualified from the final of the men’s 4×100-metre relay at the London Olympics after initially appearing to win the bronze medal.
The team of Gavin Smellie of Brampton, Ont., Ottawa’s Oluseyi Smith, Jared Connaughton of New Haven, P.E.I., and anchor Justyn Warner of Markham, Ont., brought out the Maple Leaf to celebrate after posting a time of 38.07 seconds.
But the team was disqualified after it appeared Connaughton stepped out of his lane.
“It was my fault,” he told reporters after the race.
The DQ gave the bronze to Trinidad and Tobago, leaving the Canadians doubled over on the track in tears.
