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Track and field: Bolt, Gay set for 3 showdowns in Diamond League (Honolulu Advertiser)
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MONACO - Sprint stars Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Tyson Gay of the United States will race each other at least three times at elite Diamond League meetings next year.
Gay, Richards selected USA Athletes of the Year
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Indianapolis, USA - Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards were named winners of the 2009 Jesse Owens Awards by USA Track and Field. This marks the second time in their careers that Gay and Richards have earned this prestigious distinction. Gay initially won the award in 2007, and Richards was the recipient in 2006.
Gay undergoes successful surgery
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World 100 metres silver medallist Tyson Gay has successfully undergone surgery on a painful groin problem that hampered him during much of the athletics season. His manager Mark Wetmore said minor surgery had taken place on both sides of Gay's groin in Philadelphia on Friday.
NKAC cross country winners remain the same from '08 (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
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St. Henry swept the small-school boys' and girls' team titles at the Northern Kentucky Athletic Conference cross country meet at Scott, and Conner and Notre Dame Academy extended winning streaks at the event. But it was some inspiring individual performances Tuesday that had people talking.
Felix dashes to 21.88 World lead, Gay dominates with 9.79w in Stockholm - IAAF World Athletics Tour
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Despite cool condition, World champions Allyson Felix and Tyson Gay impressed at the DN Galan in the Swedish capital on Friday (31) night.
LetsRun.com's IAAF Grand Prix Stockholm DN Galan Comprehensive Recap
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LetsRun.com has the recap of the Stockholm Grand Prix race where Tyson Gay runs 9.79.
Rumors Of Gay Injury Overblown Says Agent
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As anticipation for a great matchup of rivals builds, the rumor mill, too, often shifts in to overdrive, and that, according to agent Mark Wetmore, has driven the exaggeration factor in rumors circulating on the internet and around the European circuit that Tyson Gay is injured and may not make it to his appointed sprint meeting with Olympic superman Usain Bolt at the World Championships next month. via Track and Field News
Tyson Gay focuses on a '9.5 mentality' to beat Usain Bolt
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Tyson Gay is not the kind of man you would normally expect to use words like "beast", "freak" and "monster" to describe a rival, but the prospect of trying to topple Usain Bolt at next month's World Championships in Berlin can do things even to the most mild-mannered of souls.
Gay's last pre-Berlin 100m race set for Stockholm - IAAF World Athletics Tour
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Stockholm, Sweden - Reigning double dash World champion Tyson Gay will run the 100 metres at DN Galan at Stockholm Olympic Stadium Friday, July 31, organizers have announced.
Freaks of nature in the race against time
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Looking ahead to the Burn-Up In Berlin, Tyson Gay refers to his seemingly unbeatable rival as "a beast," "a freak" and "a monster". But far from giving the Lightning Bolt some boxing-style lip, he is in fact proffering the utmost respect.
St. Henry's Frigo Wins Class A Cross Country Regional Title (The Kentucky Post)
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St. Henry junior Mario Frigo won her second straight girls' Class A cross country regional title Saturday at Ryle, as the Crusaders once again claimed both the boys' and girls' Class A regional titles.
Late start at Chicago Marathon costs Wesley Korir $15,000
Posted by Matt
Wesley Korir, a Kenyan native and track and cross-country runner at the University of Louisville, was the fourth-place finisher Sunday, but he won't receive any prize money. Korir did not start in the elite wave at 7:55 a.m., but rather with the remainder of the field at 8 a.m. U.S. Track and Field rules stipulate that all runners receiving prize money must have the same gun time so that no runner has an advantage.
Hilltopper cross country sweeps meet (Bowling Green Daily News)
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The Western Kentucky cross country teams hosted the 27th annual Old Timers Classic on Saturday at Kereiakes Park. Although no team scoring was kept in the meet, WKU swept the individual titles.
Cross country: Centre's Wilson honored (The Danville Advocate-Messenger)
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Centre College senior cross country runner Chase Wilson was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Association's men's cross country runner of the week.
Western Kentucky sweeps Sun Belt
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Western Kentucky sweeps Sun Belt
Coach's dream job too good to pass up
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Coaching in the Olympics was University of Louisville track coach Ron Mann's dream for more than 30 years. And here was John Chaplin, the U. S. Olympic men's track and field chairman, offering Mann a position on his 2008 staff.
Freshman transfer Shannon Davis making a splash at Eastern Kentucky
Posted by Matt
If a double major puts a lot on the average college student's plate-and a student athlete's plate is already full with classes and practices-Eastern freshman Shannon Davis may well be lining up for a buffet.
Louisville's Ron Mann named men's middle distance coach for Team USA
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University of Louisville track and field head coach Ron Mann has been named the men's middle distance coach for Team USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, USA Track & Field announced Wednesday.
Western Kentucky sweeps Sun Belt
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The Western Kentucky University men's and women's track and field programs swept the Sun Belt Conference indoor championships Sunday at the Murphy Center.
Bluegrass is not really blue--it's green--but in the
spring, bluegrass produces bluish-purple buds that when seen in large
fields give a rich
blue cast to the grass. Early pioneers found bluegrass growing on Kentucky's
rich limestone soil, and traders began asking for the seed of the "blue
grass from Kentucky." The name stuck and today Kentucky is known
as the “Bluegrass State”.
source: http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/gov/symbols.htm
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