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Bolt Beats Elements And Powell
Croatia's Blanka Vlasic clears the bar at the women's high jump event at the Golden League athletic games in Brussels, Friday Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Usain Bolt rallied against the cold, the wind and Asafa Powell to win the 100 meters in 9.77 seconds yesterday at the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels.
Running against a strong headwind in his season finale, the three-time Olympic champion had a bad start and watched Powell go ahead. But Bolt pulled even with Powell and used his long strides to finish 0.08 off the world record he set at in Beijing.
Powell, the only runner to defeat Bolt this season, finished second in 9.83. Nesha Carter made it a Jamaican sweep in 10.07.
"Asafa is a really fast guy," Bolt said. "I'm getting used to chasing him." . . .
U.S. boxing coach Dan Campbell retired after his attempt to remake the American team backfired in Beijing with the worst U.S. showing in Olympic history.
Campbell, a 65-year-old veteran of the amateur boxing ranks in Virginia Beach, had been the national director of coaching for USA Boxing since 2005. The U.S. team won just one medal in Beijing. . . .
More than two out of three people worldwide tuned in for the Beijing Olympics. Nielsen Media Research says 4.7 billion viewers saw at least some of the 17 days of TV coverage.
· PRO BASKETBALL: Mario Chalmers, banished from the NBA's rookie symposium, acknowledged he made an error in judgment but denied he was using marijuana. The Miami Heat rookie guard released an apology through the team to several parties, including NBA commissioner David Stern.
Chalmers was sent home from the event Wednesday after security at the resort where the session was taking place found him and former Kansas teammate Darrell Arthur in a room with two women, and security officials detected the scent of marijuana. No drugs or drug paraphernalia were found, but having guests in the room broke NBA policies, and the two rookies were banished by Stern. . . .
The Cavaliers signed center Lorenzen Wright to help offset the loss up front of forward Joe Smith.
· COURTS: Sprinter Marion Jones was released from federal prison after completing most of her six-month sentence for lying about her steroid use. Jones left a halfway house in San Antonio at 8 a.m. She will remain on probation.
· AUTO RACING: Gillett Evernham Motorsports is suing Robby Gordon, claiming the owner-driver violated terms of an agreement that would have sold his team to GEM.
Gordon insisted he hasn't breached any contract and wants to proceed with the sale of Robby Gordon Motorsports to GEM.
· HORSE RACING: Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed an emergency regulation banning steroids for thoroughbred and standardbred races. The rules go into effect immediately.
Big Brown had steroids in his system before winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. It was not illegal in any of the Triple Crown states this year.
-- From News Services
