Ortega wins 110 hurdles at Stockholm Diamond League as world champ Oliver

Orlando Ortega of Cuba goes on to win the men’s 110m hurdles event at the IAAF Athletics Diamond League meeting at Stockholm Olympic Stadium on Thursday July 30, 2015. “I have good memories of competing here”, said Oliver, who holds a 12.98 season best when he finished second behind Ortega at the Diamond League Paris meet.

“I was just going for the sheer excitement of competing at an Olympics and being star-struck by seeing all the other athletes there. I’m not anxious about anything”.

“I’ve been training hard since and running a few longer distances over 200m, which I don’t like”.

Meanwhile, Reuters has reported that Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix is set to run the 400m rather than the 200m in Beijing, the news agency stating that her coach Bob Kersee had told Reuters of the decision on Wednesday.

After the victory in Paris, Fraser-Pryce said she would skip the 200 metres race in Beijing, a decision that was taken by her coach which would allow her to focus on the 100 metres event.

Oliver said the performance wasn’t anything to worry about as he was still exhausted from flying in from Toronto on Monday. They’re all hungry so it’s great and it keeps me on my toes.

“I’m looking forward to going back to Beijing”.

“When I went to China in 2008 I had no idea I would even get a medal”.

“The 200 for me is definitely more strategic”.

There was disappointment for Robbie Grabarz, a bronze medallist at the London Games, who could only finish eighth in the high jump. I’m not running 200 at the World Champs?’ And he said, ‘Who says you’re not running?’ So I said, ‘You did!’ And he said, ‘I’ve changed my mind. Jacorian Duffield of the U.S. was the only jumper to clear that height for the win. She edged out Denmark’s Sara Petersen by five hundredths of a second to sit top of the Diamond Race standings. Hejnova clocked 54.37 to win by 0.05 seconds.

Caterine Ibarguen, unbeaten in 28 competitions, comfortably won the women’s triple jump with a leap of 14.69 meters, beating her nearest rival, Kazakhstan’s Olga Rypakova, by 39cm.

Schwanitz will win the shot put discipline in the Diamond League rankings if she competes at the Zurich-hosted finals on 2 September.