At last Friday’s Samsung Diamond League opener in Doha, the spotlight fell on local star Mutaz Essa Barshim, the 19-year-old high jumping wunderkind who exceeded all expectations by equaling his own national record of 2.31m in first major co...
May 9 2011, 04:20 PM
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Doha, Qatar - The opening Samsung Diamond League meeting of the season here in Doha prompted 11* athletes to achieve world-leading performances, with Allyson Felix moving closer to her own personal set of double figures as she recorded the ninth win ...
May 7 2011, 06:43 PM
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Doha, Qatar - There were witnesses, back in Beijing, to the private anguish of Lolo Jones. In the aftermath of her Olympic 100m hurdles final, where she clipped the penultimate barrier and suffered an immediate status change from favourite-about-to-...
May 7 2011, 06:41 PM
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Doha, Qatar - Nine of last year’s Diamond Race winners, including the women’s 200 and 400m champion Allyson Felix, will get their World Championship season underway here in Doha in the first of this year’s 14 IAAF Samsung Diamond Le...
May 6 2011, 02:45 AM
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Doha, Qatar – Cautious confidence was the prevailing theme shared by six of the sport’s biggest stars who met with the international press corps at the official press conference of the Samsung Diamond League Doha meeting today.Four of tho...
May 6 2011, 02:43 AM
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Doha, Qatar – Four defending Diamond Trophy winners shared their expectations for Friday’s Samsung Diamond League Doha 2011 competition at a media cocktail reception at the Sheraton Doha on Wednesday (4) night.After welcome messages from I...
May 5 2011, 03:55 PM
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Doha, Qatar - Injury has forced 800m World record holder David Rudisha to withdraw from Friday's opening leg of the 2011 Samsung Diamond League meeting in Doha, Qatar (6 May).Rudisha, the 2010 World Athlete of the year, is suffering from an injury t...
May 3 2011, 05:00 PM
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