Usain Bolt parties at Melbourne nightclub

The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, has swapped his running spikes for dancing shoes at a nightclub in Melbourne.

Bolt flew into Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport around 10pm Saturday ahead of his appearance at the Melbourne Cup Carnival next week, the Herald Sun reported.

He quickly made his way to Alumbra Nightclub in Docklands to shake off the jetlag.

Video that appears to have been captured by another patron that night shows the nine-time Olympic gold medallist doing some fancy footwork and waving his hands in the air.

"Lifetime experience to be near the world’s fastest man," Instagram user Amandu wrote.

The Olympic sprinter is expected to appear in the Crown Melbourne marquee at Flemington on Oaks Day, November 3.

Usain Bolt's student lover breaks silence: 'He has the body of a champion although his male parts do not match'

Brazilian student Jady Duarte, 20, shared snaps which appear to show her kissing and cuddling the sprinting sensation.

Usain Bolt spent a night of passion with a Brazilian student after wooing her by flashing his six-pack and pulling his famous 'lightning bolt' pose, she has sensationally claimed.

Jady Duarte, 20, shared snaps which appear to show her kissing and cuddling the sprinting sensation after his 30th birthday bash in Rio.

And now she has broken her silence on spending the night with the Olympic ace - claiming he persuaded her to accompany him back to the Olympic Village by using the Google Translate app.

They then allegedly made love in a small single bed, while listening to Rihanna's Work.

Usain and his student 'lover'

Jady posed in a series of selfies

Jady Duarte regularly posts selfies

The pair's raunchy antics reportedly lasted over two one-hour sessions, with them enjoying drinks together in between.

The star has since returned to London, where he has been snapped surrounded by a bevy of beauties on wild nights out ever since - despite Jady claiming he had promised they would see each other again.

Gordon Robinson Who Wants To Rooting Out Crime?

I am a terminal nuisance, especially as it relates to the English language.
I believe we inherited some good from our colonial slave masters, including the Queen’s English. It’s a challenging mixture of nuance, complexity, contradiction and precision. I love Patois (Patwa). But in today’s global village, if we don’t learn English and nurture Patwa as a tourist attraction, we’ll wither and die on the vine of global trade.
Still we insist on getting the English language wrong. For example, we don’t understand the difference between ‘legend’ and ‘icon’, so we keep calling Usain Bolt a legend. But, strictly speaking, legends are dead. The word ‘legend’ describes somebody like Wyatt Earp or Rhygin. Their lives, through exaggerated storytelling over time, become more folklore than reality.
Bustamante is a legend about whom stories become more and more apocryphal:
“Busta [to a cheering crowd]: Who is your leader?
Crowd: You, Chief!
Busta: Who give you work?
Crowd; You, Chief!
Busta: Who give you bread?
Crowd; You, Chief!
Busta [a trifle carried away]: B-R-E-D, bread?
Crowd [now delirious): You, Chief!
(Sangster whispers to Busta, “Yu fahget de ‘a’, Chief”)
Busta: B-R-E-D-A, bread!”
Never happened. But it’s part of the Bustamante legend.
Thus, English gave us the expression ‘living legend’. Every now and then an icon is spoken of with such awe and admiration that, even while alive, his/her extraordinary contributions attain legendary proportions. Miss Lou was one such.
In journalism, we have a living legend in Fae Ellington (Aunty Fae to us, whippersnappers). Those of us old enough to remember the brilliance and professionalism of young Fae Ellington at the University of JBC doing ‘The Bamboo Lounge’ and then ‘Morning Ride’, despite every imaginable adversity, aren’t surprised she grew up to be the Matriarch of Jamaican Journalism. She’s one of a kind, talented, compassionate, dedicated, fluent with the spoken and written word, equally adept in English and Patwa, and knowledgeable in Jamaican music history. Aunty Fae is top-class in all.
So, when Aunty Fae engages the likes of me on Twitter and asks for my take on an important global issue, what choice do I have? This is how it began:
Fae: “What is at the root of violence across the world? Hate or insanity? Or does one fuel the other? @cnni @BBCWorld @djmillerJA Research needed.”
Me (with trepidation): “@FaeEllington @cnni @BBCWorld @djmillerJA Aunty Fae, u figet. Ongle Jahmekyan patois (oops patwa) ave a wud fi di combo. Dat wud? HINSANITY!”
Fae: “@TheTerribleTout @cnni @BBCWorld @djmillerJA Gordon, with all that's happening across the world I have thought about this time and again.”
Me (more confident): “@FaeEllington @cnni @BBCWorld @djmillerJA I'm sure Hinsanity is the product of a more fundamental formula: INSECURITY+DOGMA-EDUCATION = HATE.”
Fae: “@TheTerribleTout @cnni @BBCWorld @djmillerJA I'm with you Gordon. But seriously, where does mental illness come in? #Hate”
Me: “@FaeEllington @djmillerJA Ppl who commit atrocities usually sociopathic not mad. Add2much dogma&they believe they can make their own rules”
Fae: “@TheTerribleTout @djmillerJA Gordon, so could personality disorders be the real culprit? You remember Freddie Hickling's findings?”
I do indeed.
I’ve been writing forever that we’re tackling violent crime as if we don’t want a reduction. Crime must be tackled at its root, and crime detection is more important than solving crime. I’ve called for a modernised police force, including comprehensive computerisation; proper training in IT and lateral thinking, and modern surveillance equipment.
I make bold to say that violent crime will NOT be reduced by more patrols, curfews, action squads and draconian legislation. Not now. Not ever. NEVER! Just being alive in 2016 is a thinking person’s occupation and21st-century solutions are all technology driven.

Key Factor

In 2011, Freddie Hickling and Vanessa Paisley conducted a scientific study that found a 40 per cent personality disorder rate in Jamaica (highest international rates 15 per cent). The Hickling-Paisley report insisted this was a key factor in Jamaica’s high crime rate. Hickling opined that if public policy didn’t change in line with the report, “then we’re doomed to repeating the same mistakes of the last 100 years or since Independence”. Governments thumbed their figurative noses at Hickling and Paisley and merrily continued applying insane formulas, producing more violent crime.
Hickling and Paisley identified three key factors that contribute to personality disorder: power-management struggles, psychosexual dysfunction, and dependency issues.
Power management (PM) is one of Jamaica’s most lacking skills (observe any of us in uniform and you’ll understand). Yet ‘power’ is Jamaicans’ most-sought-after ideal. Undereducation ensures most Jamaicans’ inability to handle power and contributes significantly to the dysfunction of persons who achieve even the smallest smidgen of ‘power’. They prioritise their own goals and desires above those of others, ignore other people's perspectives, disregard other people's feelings, and treat ‘underlings’ with scorn and contempt. Their days are spent plotting how to preserve their power and they become aggressive when it’s threatened.
Psychosexual dysfunction (PD) is the inability of a person to experience sexual arousal or to achieve sexual satisfaction under appropriate circumstances. This is caused by physical disorder or, more commonly, psychological problems. Imagine this combined with PM struggles. The need to preserve power, mixed with the struggle to satisfy an inappropriate sexual desire, is a potent recipe for violence.
Dependency issues usually arise from addiction problems with alcohol, drugs, relationships (stalking), sex, work, food or gambling. Family members with these problems develop self-destructive tendencies; learn to repress emotions; and disregard their own needs. They become ‘survivors’. They develop behaviours that help them deny, ignore, or avoid difficult emotions. They detach themselves. They don’t talk. They don’t touch. They don’t confront. They don’t feel. They don’t trust. Before you know it, combined with PM or PD, voila, Ted Kaczynski.
Michael H. Stone, of Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, produced an excellent paper on personality disorders and crime (2007) in which he postulated the majority of persons committing violent crime exhibit a personality disorder. He found the disorder could be restricted to one of those described in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), or a complex combo as was propounded by Hickling and Paisley.
However, Stone allowed for the possibility that the personality of certain violent offenders may not be in DSM, such as psychopathic, sadistic, hypomanic, explosive-irritable, passive-aggressive or depressive.
Stone also propounded that, while the connection between personality configuration and crime type may be quite close, as in the case of mass murder or serial sexual homicide, a single murder, especially within the family, may be committed by persons of any personality type.
He wrote:
“One way of understanding personality disorders, in general, is to view them as habitual dispositions toward the interpersonal world that limit one’s options in relation to stressful situations and thus lower adaptiveness. From this perspective, violence, intimidation, unlawful imprisonment and the like represent desperate choices from a (presumably) seriously compromised menu of possible solutions. To take but one example, the jealous man who, in the context of a deteriorating marriage, kills his intent-upon-divorce wife, ‘so that no one else can have her’, is operating within an all-or-none schema.
“According to this schema, a man ‘owns’ his wife totally; the ‘crime’ (in his eyes) of defection is punishable by death; killing her thus constitutes what sociologist Katz has characterised as (from the vantage point of the murderer) righteous slaughter. The more adaptive solution - that both he and his wife might in the long run be better off separating and ultimately finding partners with whom each could be more compatible - is not available to the [husband’s] seriously narrowed mindset. This leaves only the option of uxoricide, which the husband pictures as ‘justified homicide’, but which the community rightly appraises as murder.”
As I write, Jamaica is in another cycle of panic about crime. All sorts of violent and repressive ‘solutions’ are being suggested, including states of emergency; curfews; patrols; and restrictions on bail. Yawn. Been there, done that. I was glad to hear the commissioner promise more ‘cerebral’ solutions, but the bottom line is that it takes cash to care and modern police forces need to be properly funded to acquire personnel and equipment required for 2016. Governments won’t spend what’s essential to reduce crime. With that agenda, calls for resignations of water-carriers-in-baskets are absurd and solve nothing.
There you have it, Aunty Fae. Tell me, does the Jamaica Constabulary Force so much as employ a single personality profiler?
Peace and love.
- Gordon Robinson is an attorney-at-law. Email feedback to.

Usain Bolt coasts to victory in first 100m race in over nine months despite nearly falling out of blocks

Usain Bolt delivered an ominous statement in his first competitive race for 9½ months, coasting to victory in the 100 metres at Jamaica’s Racers Grand Prix in 9.88 seconds despite almost falling out of the blocks. But his satisfaction was tempered by the controversy engulfing his compatriot Nesta Carter, whose failed drugs test could deny him a historic ‘triple-triple’ of Olympic sprint titles at this summer’s Games in Rio de Janeiro.

While Bolt is pursuing a hat-trick of 100m, 200m and 4x100m triumphs for the third time, the feat is in jeopardy after Carter, his sprint relay team-mate in Beijing and London, tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine during a re-examination of 454 samples from the 2008 Games. “It’s heartbreaking, because over the years you have worked hard to be win gold medals and to be a champion,” Bolt said.

“Things happen in life, so if I need to give back my gold medal, it’s not a problem for me. I can’t tell what he’s going through, but it must be hard and frustrating, because I’m not too pleased about the situation. It’s rough for track and field.” The International Association of Athletics Federations changed its rules in 2003 to allow entire relay teams to be disqualified if one member was caught doping.

Bolt looked far from ecstatic at his own performance, shaking his head as he crossed the line in the second fastest time of the year. Only France’s Jimmy Vicaut, who ran 9.86sec in Montreuil, has gone faster in 2016. Bolt, for whom this year’s Olympics are to be his last, was stricken by a familiar poor start, losing five metres on the field before surging through to beat Nickel Ashmeade by six hundredths. “I dragged my foot too hard, so it propelled me forward, and then I just tried to correct myself,” he explained. “I tried not to panic and just made my way through. The more I run, the smoother my running will become and the faster I’ll get.”

In one of the most impressive 100m fields ever assembled, Bolt, who has been on hiatus from competition since last year’s world championships in Beijing, vanquished leading rivals Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell with ease. This was only the third time all three had competed in the same race but Blake, making his comeback from persistent hamstring injuries, looked a pale imitation of his 2011 pomp, while Powell suffered his familiar psychological frailties under pressure from Bolt.

They will go head-to-head again at the Jamaican trials on June 30 but on this evidence only Justin Gatlin, who has faced problems of his own recently after rolling his ankle in training, appears capable of keeping Bolt honest in Brazil. On a cacophonous night inside the National Stadium here in Kingston – one that prompted American hurdler to call for Jamaica to be given a Diamond League meeting, saying he had “never seen an atmosphere like it” – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce also remained on course for a third straight Olympic 100m gold by winning in 11.09.

Bogdanovich Buys Usain Bolt Tracks & Records Franchiser

Downsound Records CEO Joe Bogdanovich now owns the majority of the UsainBolt's Tracks & Records franchiser.

The long-time partner in dancehall calendar event Sting, who recently inked a deal to buy the Sumfest brand, has now purchased a 51 per cent stake in FranJam, the franchising company of the Jamaican-themed restaurant, from KLE Group.

FranJam was spun off and sold to pay off a US$650,000 ($79 million) debt owed by KLE to Bogdanovich for a loan he gave to the company in 2014 after he took on a 23 per cent stake in KLE and joined its board.

The loan initially carried an interest rate of 6.5 per cent for a period of four years and was secured by the assets of Famous Nightclub. It was renegotiated in 2015 for new terms requiring 7.9 per cent interest per annum for three years, while the nightclub located in Portmore, St Catherine, was sold this January.

KLE CEO Gary Matalon, who also heads FranJam, said the debt renegotiation was done to offset any potentially negative impact the debt might have on the company's balance sheet in 2015 while the deal to sell FranJam, which was already well advanced by then, was being finalised.

The sale and repayment of the debt valued KLE's 49 per cent stake in FranJam at $76 million, which was reflected on the company's balance sheet as investment in associate for the first quarter ending March 2016.

It also added $156 million to the company's income statement, reflecting an accounting of the combined effects of repaying the $79-million debt and the unrealised gain on the revaluation of FranJam.

Importantly, the sale of Famous in January and the repayment of the costly debt make KLE Group, which is left with Tracks and Records in Marketplace, profitable.

The restaurant posted a modest operating profit of $4 million for its first quarter, a period Matalon says has historically been the worst three months for the establishment. During the comparative quarter in 2015, the restaurant posted a $5-million operating loss.

Depreciation runs KLE around $3.6 million a quarter, so substantially eliminating finance costs by repaying the debt to Bogdanovich also bodes well for the company's profitability, especially given that better months for revenue are ahead, by Matalon's estimation.

"Last Olympics, we did $22 million in revenue," the KLE CEO told the Financial Gleaner. "Just accounting for price increases, the same amount of traffic this year could generate $29 million in revenue in August."

With a gross profit margin of 64 per cent, as was the case in the first quarter of 2016, and with depreciation, administrative and other expenses running just below $10 million a month, achieving this revenue target would translate into $9 million to the bottom line for this year's Olympics.

Tracks and Records' first franchisee is also expected to open its doors in Ocho Rios, St Ann, within eight weeks, which might be just in time for the Games where six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt plans to repeat his triple-sprint win for a third time.

However, revenue from that franchise arrangement, as with those to be established in the future, will go to FranJam. KLE then would earn a share of FranJam's profit.

In a way, the sale of the Tracks and Records franchise is similar to the approach being taken by the company for its Bessa project, which seeks to develop a property in Oracabessa, St Mary, in partnership with Sagicor Life Jamaica.

KLE is taking on a small group of investors to invest US$250,000 of the US$350,000 that the entertainment company committed to the project, while it will manage the project for an annual administration fee equal to one per cent of the invested amount by the investor group and a bonus equal to 15 per cent of the profit made by each investor. But that is if the profit exceeds the US LIBOR rate plus four per cent.

Matalon's take on the FranJam sale is that it will accelerate the pace at which the restaurant chain is expanded through franchising locally and overseas.

Franchise development means going up against operators with deep pockets, such as Yum! Brands (owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and others), and other themed restaurants such as Outback, Chilli's and Finnegan's.

"We negotiated, with the spin-off of FranJam, that financing would become available," said Matalon. "Now we have the money needed to attack the market."

This Beggar Claimed He Couldn’t Walk But Ran Like Usain Bolt When His Bag Was Stolen

If you come across a beggar begging on the streets, you would probably take pity on their condition and shell out some money. It doesn’t cross your mind that the beggar might be faking his condition.

Watch this eye-opening video by Idiots pEople doinG idioTs acTs showing the exact situation. You can see a beggar asking for alms by claiming he can’t walk, but runs at lightening speed when he finds his bag is stolen.

Bolt Losing Passion For Man U As Van Gaal's Tenure Drags On

Sprint mega-star Usain Bolt, who considers himself a life-long Manchester United fan, and who previously expressed a desire to play for his favourite Barclays English Premier League team after retiring from athletics, says his passion for the club is disappearing as the tenure of current dutch manager Louis van Gaal drags on.

Twenty-nine-year-old Bolt, who has dominated world sprinting with individual world records in the 100m (9.58), 200m (19.19), has announced plans to hang up his illustrious running shoes at the end of this year’s Olympic in Rio, Brazil.

Bolt was responding to a reporter following his sixth RJR Sports Foundation National Sportsman of the Year award win at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, last Friday night.

“Well looking at how (Louis) van Gaal is. I don’t think I would ever want to be coached by van Gaal so I think I will put that on pause until we get a new coach,” the Manchester club.

Bolt explained to Andy Goldstein's Celebrity Reds on MUTV in November “how he once discussed the idea of a trial with former boss Sir Alex Ferguson”.

The now 74-year-old Ferguson retired as Manchester United's most successful manager in 2013 after 25 years in charge at the club.

Meanwhile, current coach van Gaal led the Netherlands to a third-place finish at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, prior to his appointment to Manchester United.

In his first season, van Gaal led United to fourth place in the UEFA Champions League football, but were eliminated.

They are currently fifth in the league, with the much-criticised Dutch manager linked with the exit door following another topsy-turvy season for the Manchester–based team.

MANCHESTER UNITED NEWS: ANTHONY MARTIAL IS PREMIER LEAGUE'S FASTEST PLAYER

Anthony Martial of Manchester United shoots from close range during the Barclays Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield, January 17. According to official statistics, Martial is the league's joint-fastest player.

Is that blinding blur on the Old Trafford pitch a bird? A plane? A Train à Grande Vitesse?

No, it’s Anthony Martial, Manchester United’s teenage striking sensation.

During the 3-3 draw with Newcastle United at St. James’ Park on January 12, Martial was clocked by the EA Sports Performance Index running at 35.4km/h over five seconds—or 22mph.

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That equals the record for this English Premier League season held by Jamie Vardy, the Leicester City striker.

Martial’s speed is startlingly impressive given that a footballer will never run in a completely straight line, as a track sprinter does, with short bursts of pace followed by rapid changes of direction prioritized.

Usain Bolt, in smashing his own 100 meters world record at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin in 2009, was timed at an average of 23.5mph or 37.8km/h over 9.58 seconds with a top speed of 30mph.

Neither, of course, has anything on the cheetah, which can reach 110-120km/h or 68.3 to 74.5mph over distances of less than 500 meters. In August 2012, a female of the species called Sarah broke her own land speed record for an animal, running 100 meters in 5.95 seconds. Her skill with a football remains as yet unknown and untapped.

And Martial will not be rivaling the peregrine falcon anytime soon, the bird of prey that is believed to be able to reach 240mph (386.2km/h) when it swoops down towards the ground for prey.

But the confirmation of the Frenchman’s speed will be enough to catch your average Premier League defender on the hop.

Apprentice April makes Bolt for home

ONE of Lord Sugar’s latest boardroom victims hopes to see her close pal Usain Bolt when she returns home to the Caribbean.

Ex-Miss Jamaica April Jackson, fired from The Apprentice last night, reportedly had a romance with the Olympic sprint legend.

Old flame ... April reportedly dated pal Usain Vantage News

She told TV Biz: “When I go home in January I will probably go say ‘Hi’.”

April is also friends with singer Shaggy and former footballer Sol Campbell but said: “I spoke to Sol a couple of days ago. I don’t think he watches The Apprentice.”

Despite her exit, April said: “I was interesting before The Apprentice and I will continue to be interesting afterwards.”

2015: International Athletics' Year of Doping Scandals

Several scandals have emerged in the athletics world in 2015, with both governing body IAAF and several independent athletes under the scanner for what sources (and several authorities) allege is an evidentially supported involvemenet in doping. 

The athletics world became shrouded in controversy when, earlier this year, English newspaper The Times said it had been given data by an anonymous whistleblower, examined by its own panel of forensic experts, that allegedly proved several IAAF athletes who participated in the London Marathon had done so under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs, putting the results of the marathon into question.

At the time, authorities behind the marathon had responded saying it had a “strict no-tolerance policy” against doping, but the doubt had already been cast. Organi.

This August, the IAAF released a statement rejecting the allegations outright, although suspicion has persisted ever since. 

Several of athletics’ most iconic names came into the spotlight as a result – among them Justin Gatlin, Usain Bolt and Mo Farah. 

Farah and American Olympic athlete Galen Rupp came under immense scrutiny after their coach, seasoned marathon champion Alberto Salazar, was subject to a BBC investigation alleging he had been involved in the doping of several athletes who trained under him at the Nike Experience Project, of which several runners – including American marathon icon Kara Goucher and her husband were a part. 

Salazar’s second-in-command and several athletes who trained under him bore testament to the allegations, with Salazar issuing several denials. The accusations also led at the time to Farah withdrawing from competition for a short period, as UK athletics conducted their own independent investigation against the athlete. 

During these investigations, it was revealed Farah had also missed two drug tests prior to the 2012 London Olympics, where he won Gold.

Although he was eventually exonerated, Farah went on to say that the accusations had taken a toll on his physical and mental health. 

Gatlin and Bolt went on to be cleared as well, but organisers of several events – most notably the London Marathon, criticised the IAAF for what they described as a significant “lack of transparency” in dealing with samples. 

Now, it has emerged that the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) have mounted a full-blown investigation into allegations of doping by a number of Russian athletes – doping the independent body says were “state-sanctioned”. According to the investigation, the drug use had not only been ‘systematic’, but samples that had been cleared in Moscow over the years had passed through labs that, as per the report had “zero credibility.”

Former WADA head Richard Pound was at the helm of the investigation, and described the team’s findings as “worse than we thought” and “pretty shocking.” The panel has recommended that Russia be suspended by the IAAF from all international competition with immediate effect. 

IAAF President Lord Sebastian Coe has now responded to the WADA panel, saying the organisation had given Russia until the end of the week to address the allegations in the report, although  Russia’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed the incident is an attempt to malign Russia politically. 

Top officials from the World Anti-Doping Agency will meet in the United States of America to figure out a new course of action against Russia. 

The country has been under the scanner since last year, however, when a German television documentary alleged that as many as 99% of athletes had been involved in serious doping, and that high-ranking officials had been accepting bribes to provide athletes with banned substances, and hide results that proved athletes had been using. 

Russia does not have a clean slate – 2010 London Marathon winner Liliya Shibulkova confessed to the makers of the programme that she had been using performance-enhancing drugs ahead of her participation, and admits paying the Russian Athletics Federation €450,000 to cover up a positive doping test. 

She is far from alone – discus thrower Yevgeniya Pecherina also admitted that several athletes were using drugs, telling the BBC ”anything an athlete wants” is available. Currently serving a 10-year ban for doping in 2013, Pecherina had earlier been handed a 2-year suspension for a similar offense. 

Although officials from the country – including its President Vladimir Putin – have strenuously denied claims, Russia’s record appears to speak for itself. 

Doping may be a recurrent feature in the athletics world – but it appears that 2015 has been one of its darkest years. 

Stars set to glitter at Diamond League in Brussels

A raft of medallists from the recent athletics world championships in Beijing will appear in the Belgian capital on Friday night. Usain Bolt, who won three golds in China, should have been in Brussels. But he withdrew saying he was tired after his record-breaking races in China.

Less than two weeks after the world championships, some of track and field's top stars will be in action in Brussels for the final Diamond League meeting of the season.

The American sprinter Justin Gatlin will contest the 100 and 200 metres. The 33-year-old won silver in both events in Beijing behind the Jamaican Usain Bolt who pulled out of the 200 metres citing fatigue.

Last season, Gatlin clocked the year's fastest times in both races. This year he will face a stern examination from the South African Wayde van Niekerk, who claimed the 400m gold in Beijing worlds in 43.48 seconds.


The 23-year-old has notched up a 200m best of 19.87 seconds. The 100m also features a strong field including Jamaican duo Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell, American Mike Rodgers and France's Jimmy Vicaut.

The highlight of the women's sprint races will be the showdown between Dafne Schippers and Allyson Felix from the United States.

When Schippers crossed the line on 28 August in 21.63 seconds - ahead of the Jamaican duo of Elaine Thompson and Veronica Campbell-Brown - she became the first European to win the title since the Russian Anastasia Kapachinskaya claimed the gold medal in 2003.

In the interim, Felix has won it three times followed by Campbell-Brown and her fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

Schippers' mark was the fourth-fastest time.

"It is exciting to see new talents coming up in the event and I love new challenges," said 29-year-old Felix. "Yes, the 200m was an impressive race in Beijing, they ran very fast.

"It was hard not to be a part of that, because races like that don't often come your way."

Felix said ahead of the race on Friday night that her goal was to qualify for the US teams for the 200 and 400 metres for next year's Olympic Games in Rio.

"As far as the Olympic time schedule is concerned I can't say anything about that; things can always change. But I would love the opportunity to compete in both events."

Schippers said the world championship gold medal had changed her life.

Since winning in Beijing, Schippers has found that she is far more in demand now back home in the Netherlands.

“It’s a crazy world now for me. It’s all new,” she added. “It’s nice, but it takes a lot of energy. A gold medal is very important to the Netherlands. It’s no longer possible to walk down the street with my dog because a lot of people come up to me. I like it, though."

Jamaica to create "Usain Bolt" sports school

KINGSTONE, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Jamaica's government is working on a project to open a sports school, which will be called "Usain Bolt", in a stadium located in the Jamaican star's birthtown.

The school aims to honor the national athlete and to give a greater use to the sports complex built in 2007 in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica's Sports Minister Natalie Neita-Headley told Cuban news agency Prensa Latina on Friday.

The project is a priority for the Jamaican government and 220,000 U.S. dollars have been set aside to kick-start the project, according to Neita-Headley.

Jamaican authorities expect many international athletes to endorse the new sports complex's work and to support the training of new Jamaican athletes.

The announcement about the new sports complex was made after Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller created a bipartisan committee to define Bolt's recognition and the recognition of other medal winners in International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Beijing 2015 World Championships.

Jamaica came in second in the final ranking with seven gold medals, two silver and three bronze.

Usain Bolt Rides Through London Heathrow On Hoverboard With No Qualms

Usain Bolt was spotted on Tuesday morning making his way through London Heathrow on a hoverboard and appeared to have no worries in the world.

Just days after winning his fourth 200-meter title, the world’s fastest athlete glided through the airport in a grey sweatsuit and pair of sunglasses. Which we have to say, is mad gusty considering the athlete’s career almost came to an end after being taken out by a photographer on a segway … the same family as a hoverboard.

It’s also safe to say that the new trend is to ride not walk through airports around the world. And apparently, you can get away with it if you obey orders by airport officials.

You might remember last month, Wiz Khalifa was restrained by law enforcement for refusing to get off of his hoverboard. Three officers took the rapper down at LAX before eventually letting Amber Rose’s ex-husband  go.

But just six days later, Wiz made his way through LAX via the handless segway with no complaints. So we guess the rule is … ride at your own risk … but if asked to ditch the new piece of technology, ditch it.

Olympic champion Usain Bolt rides megaboard through Heathrow Airport in London

Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt was snapped riding a megaboard through Heathrow Airport in London this week after touching down from Beijing.

The Jamaican sprinter, who won three gold medals at the recent World Championships, is the latest famous face to join the megaboard craze.

Bolt has not had the best luck with similar gadgets though, as he was knocked over by a cameraman on a segway while celebrating a gold-medal triumph in Beijing last week.

The 29-year-old won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m events in China.

Sports names and faces: Jane Rosenberg, Usain Bolt

Jane Rosenberg

The New York sketch artist’s courtroom drawing of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (above) at his federal court hearing to try to get his “Deflategate” suspension reduced is a viral sensation. The sketch has been criticized as making Brady look like an aging cartoon villain or like his face is melting. It’s been superimposed upon “E.T.,” Michael Jackson performing “Thriller” and the figure inEdvard Munch’s “The Scream,” depictions that make Rosenberg laugh. But the scores of nasty e-mails do not. “I’m really having a rough time. This is so not my life,” Rosenberg said. “I thought I might crawl under a pillow and never come out.” She said, “It wasn’t my goal to make a photograph of him in the building but to show the feeling of what was going on.”

Usain Bolt

The Olympic gold medalist is returning to the stadium in which he became a star when the world track and field championships begin next Saturday at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing. The $450 million, 91,000-seat stadium, latticed with steel beams, was the centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Games. Bolt, a 6-foot-5 Jamaican, redefined what is possible at the Olympics by winning gold medals and setting world records in three events — the 100 meters, 200 and the 4x100 relay. Now 29 and the man to beat at the Rio Games next year, he says he’s made lifestyle adjustments to stay on top: fewer parties, more vegetables. “I have to be real careful, have to be aware of everything around me to make sure I’m on point,” said Bolt, who made Chicken McNuggets his dinner, and lunch, of choice at the 2008 Olympics.

Track: Sprinter Bolt returning to scene of Olympic glory

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Usain Bolt, winning 200-meter gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he will compete in the world championships.

They burst onto the sports scene together, seven summers ago.

In their own ways, the Bird’s Nest and Usain Bolt redefined what was possible at the Olympics.

A stadium could be a star. The $450 million, 91,000-seat Bird’s Nest, latticed with steel beams, was the centerpiece of the Beijing Games, and it shined in a spectacular opening ceremony that featured a skywalking gymnast, fireworks and a cast and crew of more than 15,000.

Then came Bolt.

The 6-foot-5 Jamaican raced in three events. Won gold medals and set world records in all. He returns to the Bird’s Nest next Saturday for the start of world championships — helping the largely underused stadium brush off some cobwebs while possibly shedding some positive light on a sport that has been dogged, yet again, by ugly news on the doping front.

Since departing the Bird’s Nest the night of Aug. 22, 2008, Bolt has improved on his records, which stand at 9.58 seconds for the 100, 19.19 for the 200 and 36.84 for the 4-x-100 relay. He has won three more Olympic golds, and dealt, on and off, with a variety of injuries, new challengers and even a couple of car accidents.

Through it all, he has remained the man to beat with the next Olympics less than a year away. But he will turn 30 on the day of the closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. It doesn’t come so easily anymore.

"I have to be real careful, have to be aware of everything around me to make sure I’m on point," said Bolt, who made Chicken McNuggets his dinner, and lunch, of choice at the 2008 Olympics.

He will use his next appearance at the stadium where he became a true, bona fide superstar as something between a tune-up for next year and the real thing. This is, after all, the biggest event he’ll race in until he gets to Brazil.

But this summer, Bolt has been beset by leg injuries, not running his best, rounding into form. He ran his top time of the season, 9.87 seconds, July 24 at a meet in London — at the other Olympic stadium where he has ruled. He called it an appearance that was "all about getting race ready."

How ready he is in Beijing this time around is almost beside the point. He will be the headliner, and will provide a respite for his sport when he appears at the nine-day meet, where he’s scheduled to run in the 100, 200 and 4-x-100 relay — the usual. The integrity of track has been battered this year under a doping cloud as thick and persistent as the haze that hovers over China’s capital.

In June, The Associated Press learned the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency launched an investigation into allegations that famed track coach Alberto Salazar encouraged Olympic silver medalist Galen Rupp and others in his stable of elite runners to skirt anti-doping rules.

More recently, reports from German broadcaster ARD and The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain examined results of 12,000 blood tests involving 5,000 athletes from 2001 to 2012. The reports concluded that 146 Olympic and world-championship medals in middle- and long-distance races — including 55 gold — were won by athletes who have recorded suspicious tests.

The IAAF has responded with a detailed denunciation of the reports and an equally robust defense of its own anti-doping measures, backed by Sebastian Coe, the middle-distance great who is running against pole vaulting icon Sergei Bubka for president of the IAAF before the start of world championships.

The winner will oversee a sport with only one true, worldwide star. It’s Bolt, who has steered clear of all the doping troubles, even as sanctions have been leveled against luminaries in his own track-crazy country, including former world record holder Asafa Powell and Olympic relay gold medalist Sherone Simpson.

Even a Hobbled Usain Bolt Is a Beijing Headliner

They burst onto the sports scene together, seven summers ago.

In their own ways, the Bird’s Nest and Usain Bolt redefined what was possible at the Olympics.

A stadium could be a star. The $450 million, 91,000-seat Bird’s Nest, latticed with steel beams, was the centerpiece of the Beijing Games, and it shined in a spectacular opening ceremony that featured a sky-walking gymnast, fireworks, and a cast and crew of more than 15,000.

Then came Bolt, a 6-foot-5 Jamaican who raced in three events.

Bolt won gold medals and set world records in all. He returns to the Bird’s Nest on Saturday for the start of world championships — helping the underused stadium brush off some cobwebs while possibly shedding some positive light on a sport that has been dogged, yet again, by ugly news on the doping front.

Since departing the Bird’s Nest on the night of Aug. 22, 2008, Bolt has improved on his records, which stand at 9.58 seconds for the 100 meters, 19.19 for the 200 and 36.84 for the 4x100 relay. He has won three more Olympic golds, and dealt, on and off, with a variety of injuries, new challengers and even a couple of car accidents.

Through it all, he has remained the man to beat with the next Olympics less than a year away. But he will turn 30 the day of the closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. It doesn’t all come so easily anymore.

Fewer parties. More vegetables.

“I have to be real careful, have to be aware of everything around me to make sure I’m on point,” said Bolt, who made Chicken McNuggets his dinner, and lunch, of choice at the 2008 Olympics.

He will use his next appearance at the stadium where he became a true superstar as something between a tuneup for next year and the real thing. This is, after all, the biggest event he will race in until he gets to Brazil.

But this summer, Bolt has been hobbled by leg injuries, not running his best, rounding into form. He ran his top 100 of the season, 9.87, on July 24 at a meet in London, at the other Olympic Stadium where he has ruled. He called it an appearance that was “all about getting race-ready.”

How ready he is in Beijing this time around is almost beside the point. He will be the headliner, and will provide a respite for his sport when he appears at the nine-day meet, where he is scheduled to run in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay.

The integrity of track has been battered this year under a doping cloud.

In June, The Associated Press learned that the United States Anti-Doping Agency had opened an investigation into accusations that the track coach Alberto Salazar encouraged Galen Rupp, the Olympic silver medalist at 10,000 meters in 2012, and others in his stable of elite runners to skirt doping rules.

More recently, reports from German broadcaster ARD and The Sunday Times of England examined results of 12,000 blood tests involving 5,000 athletes from 2001 to 2012. The reports concluded that 146 Olympic and world championship medals in middle- and long-distance races — including 55 gold — were won by athletes who have recorded suspicious tests.

The I.A.A.F., the sport’s international governing body, has responded with a detailed denunciation of the reports and an equally robust defense of its own antidoping measures, backed by Sebastian Coe, the middle-distance great who is running against the pole-vaulting icon Sergei Bubka for president of the I.A.A.F. before the world championships.

The winner will oversee a sport with only one true worldwide star. That is Bolt, who has steered clear of all the doping troubles.

Usain Bolt dumps junk food for vegetables

Sprinter Usain Bolt has moved away from McDonald's chicken nuggets and junk food in preparation for next year's Summer Olympics.

Why fix what isn't broken? 

The old saying has a lot of truth to it, but world-class sprinter Usain Bolt has made a personal change ahead of his preparation for next year's Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Bolt has admitted on numerous occasions that he has a love for junk food — especially chicken nuggets — but will give his beloved foods up for healthier alternatives. 

"Food wise, I have to eat a lot more vegetables," Bolt told CNN. "I have to cut junk food out. I think that's one of the biggest things for me, because I get a lot of urges at late nights, just to eat junk food. For me, that personally is one of the biggest sacrifices. 

"Sometimes you do think about just going out or just not training, or just eating a million hot wings. It's hard sometimes, because you crave it, because you're used to doing a certain thing. 

"It's hard to just walk away and not slip up sometimes. So it happens, but I try to not make it happen on the regular. I try to just contain myself as much as possible." 

He estimated in his autobiography "Faster than Lightning," that he ate 1,000 McDonald's chicken nuggets during his 10 days in Beijing, which, if you're doing the math, is an astonishing 5,000 calories a day. This all happened because he found Chinese food "odd."

Bolt, now 28, is ready to eat healthier, but won't be preparing his own meals anytime soon. 

"I can't cook, that's the one thing I can't do, though I can make scrambled eggs," he said via CNN. 

Bolt, a six-time gold medalist, will be competing in his final Olympics next year. 

"I think the closer it (Rio) gets, I think about it way more," he said. "Initially, it wasn't that much, I didn't think about it. But now it's really been on my mind. I think it's because it really means so much to me, I really want to go to Rio and do so well. 

"It's going to be all work next season. I think there's going to be zero fun next season for me. That season is very important to do the Olympics back-to-back. For me, that's the biggest thing in my career. So I know what it will take and I know what I have to do."