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This article was originally published by the European Council on Foreign Relations on 13 August, 2015.

“So playing tournaments regularly has helped me a lot this year”, the golfer said.

Bolt, the reigning two-time Olympic and three-time World champion, won his 200m semifinal in 19.95 seconds, appearing to spend time during his race looking up at a stadium video screen and, briefly, across to the second-place finisher.

American sprinter Justin Gatlin it has been revealed is on a media black-out especially to British news houses and the BBC following “hurtful attacks” and “biased views” in reports.

The world record holder posted the second fastest time across the three heats behind America’s Justin Gatlin, who he beat in the final of the 100m earlier in the meeting.

He said he had stumbled upon a weapons stash in a park in Belgium where he sometimes slept rough and decided to use it to rob passengers, according to Sophie David, a lawyer who was temporarily assigned to his case. “So this Legion d’Honneur is representative of your...

It was Kenya’s first gold medal in any event shorter than 800-meters.

“We don’t subscribe to that notion, but we are skeptical that, should Iran attempt to consider moving to a nuclear weapon, we could deter them from pursuing it through economic sanctions alone”.

Down in the bowels of the Bird’s Nest Stadium, in the moments before marching out for his heat of the men’s 100 metres Saturday night, Canada’s young sprint star Andre De Grasse was feeling nervous.

Back from a notably uneventful and restful two-week vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Obama was immediately on the road for a short trip here, first to speak at a green energy conference hosted by retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, then to raise money for his...

“My coach said, ‘You’ll have to run 100 meters if you’re going to win the race, ‘” Bolt said after capturing his record ninth career gold medal at world championships.

But the man can still play.

Doping has overshadowed the build-up, with the ruling body IAAF and Russian Federation attacked by allegations in TV documentaries, and Farah’s coach Alberto Salazar also mentioned.

The Jamaican had struggled for form and fitness all season, stumbled his way through the semi-finals and got nowhere close to the times that his rival Justin Gatlin had been posting.

The 51-year-old Love closed with a 6-under 64 for a one-stroke victory over Jason Gore and in the procewss became the only man to win in the 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000’s and 2010’s.