Pierre-Ambroise Bosse loves gambling and on Tuesday he rolled the dice and won the biggest prize of his life, the 800 metres world title, to give France their first ever gold in the event. The 25-year-old, who had finished a valiant if frustrating fourth in last year’s Olympic final, seized the initiative with 150 metres to go with a stunning burst passing Kipyegon Bett and race favourite Nijel Amos and held on to take the tape first from fast-finishing Pole...
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Jamaica’s female sprint version of Usain Bolt Elaine Thompson danced through the rain to book her place in the 100 metres semi-finals at the world championships in London on Saturday.The 25-year-old-who won Olympic 100m and 200m gold last year-made light of the conditions to win her heat whilst her bitter rival Dutch star Dafne Schippers eased through as well, finishing second in her heat. Thompson looked serene even in the rain that poured down as they rose from their blocks,...
Mo Farah will like another athletics superstar Usain Bolt bring the curtain down on his track career at the world championships with he hopes a final double golden flourish. The 34-year-old Somalia-born Briton — who will switch his focus to road running — can capture his 10th successive world or Olympic title in the 10000 metres on Friday. Then he hopes to bow out in style on the track in London where he achieved his first Olympic double in 2012...
Moeen Ali chose a fine time to make both personal and cricket history after his first hat-trick at any level...
Moeen Ali became the first bowler in The Oval’s 100 Test-history to take a hat-trick as England wrapped up a crushing 239-run win in the third Test against South Africa on Monday.Off-spinner Ali ended the south London ground’s landmark match when, after having Dean Elgar (136) and Kagiso Rabada caught at first slip by Ben Stokes with the last two balls of his 16th over, he had Morne Morkel lbw with the first ball of his next — although England...
British telecoms and television broadcasting firm BT Group on Friday posted a 42-percent slump in profits during its first quarter, rocked by fresh fallout from an Italian accounting scandal.The news sent BT shares sliding four percent, with the company heading the fallers’ board in morning deals on London’s FTSE 100 index.Pre-tax profits tumbled to o418 million ($550 million, 470 million euros) in the three months to the end of June, BT said in a results statement.Revenues rose one percent from...
South African Caster Semenya, dogged by gender accusations since shooting to fame in 2009, has played down efforts by track and field’s governing body to change rules on naturally occurring testosterone in female athletes. Semenya is back in the spotlight following a study funded by the IAAF and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that showed female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone enjoy a competitive advantage of up to 4.5 percent over their rivals. The 26-year-old South African, double...
South African Wayde van Niekerk sailed through heats of the 400m to get his ambitious bid for a 200/400m double off to a good start at the IAAF World Championships on Saturday. Nery Brenes shot out in the heat and led coming into the home straight, but Van Niekerk coasted through with a glance to the lanes outside him to win in 45.27 seconds. Much is expected of Van Niekerk, the world and Olympic champion who smashed American Michael Johnson’s...
John Terry has pledged to lead Aston Villa back into the Premier League as the Championship season kicks off with a host of big-spending clubs gearing up for a frenzied promotion battle. After winning 15 major honours in 22 years with Chelsea, Terry had to search for a new club following his release at the end of last season and rejected interest from several Premier League clubs to sign a o60,000-per-week deal with Villa. Terry’s presence in the second tier...
Ian Cathro has been sacked as head coach of Hearts just four days before the start of the Scottish Premiership season, the Edinburgh club announced on Tuesday.Cathro, 31, has paid the price for Hearts’ elimination in the opening group phase of the Scottish League Cup, which was staged last month. A former assistant coach at Valencia and Newcastle United, Cathro was appointed last December and led Hearts to a disappointing fifth-place finish last season.“Craig Levein, Hearts’ director of football, has...
Sprint superstar Usain Bolt will seek a final golden hurrah when he takes to the track at the IAAF World Championships in London this week.Bolt has dominated sprinting since taking double individual gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, going on to win a further six Olympic golds and also picking up 11 world titles.World records of 9.58 and 19.19sec in the 100 and 200m when winning in the 2009 Berlin worlds were followed by the towering Jamaican winning consecutive...
The Bank of England has picked senior civil servant and Treasury veteran Sir Dave Ramsden as its new deputy governor for markets and banking, it said Thursday.The appointment of Ramsden, 53, brings the British central bank’s interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee back to its full complement of nine members.Ramsden, who led government work on whether Britain should join the euro at the turn of the century, has been a Treasury representative at MPC meetings for a decade.“I am honoured to...
