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This is a telling photo: Photo taken through a car window shows workers taking down a billboard of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius endorsing a product in Johannesburg, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Pistorius was taken into custody after a 30-year-old woman, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot dead at his home. (Front billboard for Master Card has nothing to do with Pistorius story.) (AP Photo/Dion Chang)
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.
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ADMIT IT: You would do this too. U.S. Olympic 400m sprint gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross takes a picture with U.S. President Barack Obama as the 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams visit the White House.
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.
Photo: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
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.
Athletes compete in the women’s 20km race walk final at The Mall. Yelena Lashmanova of Russia set a world record race walk on Saturday and won the Olympic gold medal.
The 20-year-old Lashmanova overtook defending champion Olga Kaniskina near the finish line and won in 1 hour, 25 minutes, 2 seconds, seven seconds ahead of the three-time world champion.
Qieyang Shenjie of China took bronze. Qieyang is the first Tibetan athlete China has ever fielded at the Olympics. She finished 14 second behind Lashmanova.
Another historic day for women in Saudi Arabia: Sarah Attar became the first female track and field athlete to represent the country at an Olympics when she competed in the 800 metres heats on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old, who wore a white head cover, a long-sleeved green top and black leggings and sported luminous green running spikes, received a generous ovation from a capacity crowd at the Olympic stadium as she trailed in last of the eight runners.
“It’s an incredible experience,” Attar, who has dual United States citizenship and is a student at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, told reporters. “It is the hugest honour to be here to represent the women of Saudi Arabia. ”It is an historic moment. I hope it will make a difference. It is a huge step forward. It’s a really incredible experience.“
(Source: sports.nationalpost.com)
Look closely at this photo: A man was arrested for throwing a bottle at Usain Bolt and the seven other competitors mere seconds before the start of the Olympic 100 metre final. He also happened to be sitting next to judo bronze medallist Edith Bosch. Uh oh.
