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Why would he? When youre this good — the Jamaican is going for a fourth straight world championship title in the 200 meters on Thursday night — you can afford to be extremely confident.

Usain Bolt cemented his place as the world’s fastest man by sealing double sprint gold and beating Justin Gatlin for a second time at the World Championships in Beijing today.

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.

Mo Farah etched his name in the pantheon of middle distance running greats and put a tough season opening behind him Saturday when he defended his 10,000m title at the world championships in Beijing.

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.

“Cutting edge” technology has enabled the worldwide Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to identify adverse findings from 28 athletes after the re-testing of stored urine samples from the 2005 and 2007 World Championships in Helsinki and Osaka respectively.

What Ledecky has done in the freestyle events is akin to what Australian legend Shane Gould accomplished the early 1970s, that being simultaneous world records from the 100 freestyle through the 1500 freestyle.

AMERICAN Katie Ledecky entered the record books as she smashed the women’s 800m world record to claim her fifth gold medal of a remarkable world championships yesterday.

He will do so after setting the fastest time of the year in the 200m butterfly.

“I wasn’t kicking much”.

Great Britain’s Jazz Carlin has said that she is “just going to go for it” in the final of the women’s 800m freestyle at the World Swimming Championships in Russian Federation.

Then he pounded the water defiantly – first with one hand, then with both.

She had no idea she’d just set a world record at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia. There are distance swimmers, and there are sprinters.The USA’s Katie Ledecky has put her name in the record books yet again by smashing her own world record in the...

Turns out she’s awfully good going shorter, too.

She set the world record of 3:58.37 at last years Pan Pacific championships in Australia. Bravo for dreaming big.