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The Bolt Show Delivers: Usain Bolt Anchors Jamaica To 4 X 100 Gold With A Commonwealth Games Record Of 37.58 England kept it close until Bolt blew them away in the end. Jamaica also won the women’s 4 x 100, anchored by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, to a new CG record of 41.83.

M1,500: Kenya Goes 1-2 As James Magut Wins 1,500m Gold And Ronald Kwemoi Bags Silver Nick Willis put himself in a bad box but got bronze.
*Video Of Final Lap Of Men’s 1,500m And Results

W5,000: Mercy Cherono Wins 5,000 As England’s 40-Year-Old Jo Pavey Gets Inspirational Bronze Pavey gave birth just 10 months ago, but ran a gutsy race challenging the Kenyans with one lap to go.

Amantle Montsho Tests Positive For Stimulant Banned In Competition Discuss. The stimulant the former world 400 champ tested positive for was methylhexaneamine. BBC article here.

• More: Nick Willis Disappointed With His 1,500 Bronze, Saying He Raced Poorly Tactically Willis apologized to South Africa’s Johan Cronje, who was 4th by .05-seconds, saying, “He deserved that far more than I did … he ran a better more cagey and brave race.”
• Kenya’s Julius Yego Defies Injury To Win Historic Javelin Gold In Glasgow Yego, who says, “I gave up running to take up javelin because I was so slow,” became the first Kenyan to win a non-running CG title, competing through a groin injury he picked up in his warm-up.
• Bolt: “Even though I was cold, the reception has been warm.” Bolt spent a lot of time on his victory lap, saying, “I want to say that this new thing about selfies, they are really making these laps of honour really, really long.”
• England Takes 4 X 400 Gold In “Nail-Biting” Finish Over The Bahamas England got the baton in 2nd, but came back to win by .05.
• UK Independent: Phillips Idowu shows no sign of returning to his best The former world champ was only 5th in the TJ, won by SA’s Khotso Mokoena.
• Capital FM: Mighty Kenyans Finish With Golden Hat Trick Mercy Cherono refers to Jo Pavey as “the England lady.”
• IAAF Final Day Recap: Bolt Brings The Curtain Down On The Commonwealth Games
• Australia’s Alana Boyd Wins Pole Vault

LRC What A Finish: Cam Levins Just Misses Commonwealth Games 10k Gold As Moses Kipsiro Repeats Cam Levins ran like a champion but had to settle for bronze in a blanket three-way finish in Glasgow.
*Race Video With Great Three-Way Finish
*On The Boards: Levins Great Run in Glasgow

IAAF Full Friday Report: Eunice Sum Takes Gold In The Women’s 800 As Kenya Sweeps The Men’s Steeple Sum won in 2:00.31 as Jonathan Ndiku won in 8:10. Ronald Kwemoi and Nick Willis had each won their 1,500 heats (3:39 and 3:40).

• More: Recommended Read: Scotland’s Lynsey Sharp Wins CG 800 Silver In Front Of The Home Crowd Despite Spending Night Before The Final In The Hospital On An IV Drip “With the year I’ve been through, this is above everything I’ve ever done before and I don’t think anything will ever top it in future. It’s a miracle.”
  On The Boards: Lynsey Sharp gets silver after vomiting and IV drip, interesting anti-doping angle 
• Usain Bolt Gets Jamaica Through 4 X 100 Heats Easily And Jokes With Journalists Afterwards
• Cam Levins Talks After Winning Bronze “I know I’m in the right spot, and I don’t feel like I’m just going to be an also-ran now. I feel like I’m a deserving member of my team.”
• Sally Pearson Wins Gold In Women’s 100m Hurdles
• Steve Lewis Soars To Grab Pole Vault Gold In Glasgow For England England went 1-2.

The Russians Get Busted Again

MB: Wow: IAAF Bans Ekaterina Kostetskaya – Steve Hooker’s Wife And 1:56 Russian Who Went To HS In Arkansas – For Doping Yes, it’s true. Even good looking people dope.
*Yet Another Russian Racewalker Is Banned For Doping This time it’s European champ Stanislav Emelyanov.

A Crazy Day Off The Track At The Commonwealth Games

Historic Paper: Usain Bolt Says The 2014 Commonwealth Games Are “A Bit Shit” The initial report comes from The Times, which dates to 1785.
*Bolt Denies: “Journalist please don’t create lies to make headlines.”*Agent:“Utter rubbish.”
*Controversy Not Over? Times To Publish More On Thursday?
LRC:Can we at least all agree Bolt’s performances in 2014 have been utter ****?

Food Gets Ripped:100m Winner Kemar Bailey-Cole Unimpressed With Food At Commonwealth Games, Says London 2012 Was Much Better
*Indians Complain “There are very few choices for vegetarians” And Say Delhi Food Was Way Better As Well
*Jamaican Sprinter Jason Livermore Piles On About How Food Is Bad And It’s So Cold He Needs To Buy More Clothes

Australian Arrested In Athletes village

Australian Coach Eric Hollingsworth Says Sally Pearson Sets A “Bad Example” – Athletics Australia Responds By Kicking Him Out Of Games
*Coach Had Released Statement Criticizing Pearson For Not Coming To Training Camp
*Good For Him: Hollingsworth Kept Coaching To The Very Last Minute

Previous Commonwealth Games News

LRCVideo Of Tuesday’s Track Finals At Commonwealth Games: videos fixedA tremendous finish in the women’s 10,000m, plus the women’s 1,500m, men’s 110m hurdles, and women’s 400m.

LRCWomen’s 1,500: Faith Kipyegon Claims Gold As Hellen Obiri Struggles, Weightman Nabs Silver, van Buskirk Bronze Obiri looked like the best 1,500 runner on the planet earlier this year but Glasgow has not been kind to her – she was 8th in the DL meet there on July 11 and was just sixth in today’s Commonwealth Games final. England’s Laura Weightman took silver while former Duke runner Kate van Buskirk claimed the bronze for Canada.

• IAAF Day 3 Recap: Kenya Sweeps W10k, Jamaica W400Amantle Montsho was only 4th.
• Sileshi Sihine Must Be Proud: England Wins 5 Silvers On Thrilling Night Of Athletics
• David Rudisha Cruises Into 800 Metres Semi-Finals With Fstest Time Of Day (1:46.89)
  *MB: Andrew Osagie gets the heave-ho at CGs- should he have been DQd? You decide:
• NZ’s Tom Walsh Gets 2nd In Commonwealth Games Shot Put As Jacko Gill Is Only 11thJulia Ratcliffe of Princeton University got 2nd in the hammer which was won by Canada’s Sultana Frizzell.
• Princeton’s Julia Ratcliffe Wins Silver In Women’s Hammer
• Former Ballerina Sophie Hitchon Wins Hammer Bronze For EnglandSultana Frizell won gold for Canada.
• 16-Year-Old Nigerian Weightlifter Tests Positive At Commonwealth Games
• Indians Complain “There are very few choices for vegetarians” And Say Delhi Food Was Way Better As Well
• 100m Winner Kemar Bailey-Cole Unimpressed With Food At Commonwealth Games, Says London 2012 Was Much Better
• Defending 100H Champ Andy Turner Crashes Out Of 110m Hurdles In The Opening Round, Says He’s Likely To Retire At End Of Year
• Jodie Williams Aims To Put London 2012 Pain Behind Her, Wants Medal

The Men’s 800 Is Special!!LRC Commonwealth Games Men’s 800 Preview: David Rudisha Vs. Nijel Amos In A Championship Race Set your DVR for 2:50 pm ET Thursday.
*Rudisha: “I just want Kenyans to pray for me and promise not to disappoint them as I do my best and leave the rest to God.”

US Stars In The News

• Galen Rupp Is The Father Of A Baby Boy And Baby Girl Rupp’s wife is doing well after giving birth to twins on Tuesday. Congrats to them both. *MB: It’s twins: a Rupp boy and girl
• Deena And Kara Will Run Rock ‘N’ Roll Philly On Sept 21

News From Europe

• IAAF Recap Of Russian National Champs: Svetlana Rogozina Wins 800 In 1:59.54 Very few impressive marks. Svetlana Karamasheva was 2nd in the 800 and also won the 1,500 in 4:04.45. 39-year-old former World champ Tatyana Tomashova made an impressive comeback after child birth to get 2nd in 4:06.77.
• Seb Coe Pulls Out Of The Race To Be Chairman Of BBC Trust (Despite Being PM’s First Choice) As He Wants To Head IAAF