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  • Hurdler Merritt gears up for new Diamond League season

    American hurdler Aries Merritt, who won his first Olympic gold in London and set a world record in the men's 110m hurdles last year, has geared up for the 2013 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League Shanghai leg. "I will try to start the season in my best form and hopefully I'll be in my best so I won't disappoint the fans that come to watch the competition," ...

  • Budget time for Shanghai’s free sites

    The avenue is lined with art deco buildings from the 1920s and ’30s, when Shanghai was the New York of the Far East. The Bund was its Wall Street, home to international banks and trading houses. A handful of foreign and Chinese entrepreneurs made fortunes. The city’s relative stability attracted migrants who left behind poverty and fighting among warlords elsewhere. Other areas of ...

  • Nine world leading results set at the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai

    Nine world leading results were set on Saturday at the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai meet, which featuring a star-spangled squad including 7 reigning Olympic champions and 9 defending world titlists.London Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica outran her archrival Carmelita Jeter again as she won the women's 100m sprint. The 1.52-meter-high Jamaican set a world leading time of ...

  • Olympic champion Fraser-Pryce excels at Shanghai Diamond League

    London Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica outran her archrival Carmelita Jeter again as she won the women's 100m sprint at 2013 Diamond League Shanghai leg here on Saturday.The 1.52-meter-high Jamaican set a world leading time of 10.93 to claim the title, 0.15 seconds ahead of London Olympic runner-up Jeter of United States."I feel very relaxed. I came here to win and ...

  • European indoor champion Schwanitz sets new PB in Shanghai

    2013 European indoor champion Christina Schwanitz of Germany set a new personal best as she claimed women's shot put title in the Diamond League Shanghai leg here on Saturday.The 27-year-old took the leading position from the first hurl in 19,76 meters, bettering her former personal best of 19.31, and went on to reach a mark of 20.20 in her fifth throw to secure the top podium."I ...


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  • Nick Willis falls at Shanghai meet

    Carrington reigns supreme at World Cup New Zealand made a poor showing at the latest Diamond League athletics meeting in Shanghai today. Runner Nick Willis fell in the last 80m of his event as he attempted to move to the front of the field and slipped to 13th place, eight seconds off Beijing Olympic gold medallist Asbel Kiprop of Kenya. Zane Robertson finished in fifteenth, five seconds off ...

  • Death toll climbs in south China flooding

    Chinese officials said the death toll from widespread flooding in southern China reached 53 Saturday, with at least 16 people still missing. Heavy rain fell in southern China, and 10 provinces in the south and central China were reeling from flooding and landslides, China's official Xinhua news agency said. The Chinese government launched a level-four response to the disaster Xinhua ...

  • Jamaican sprinters rule Shanghai Diamond meet

    Eugene Hoshiko/AP SHANGHAI (AP) -- Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai on Saturday, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the women's 100 meters and Warren Weir capturing gold in the men's 200. Carmelita Jeter, who pulled up at the finish with an apparent leg injury. Jeter fell to the track after the race and lay on her back ...

  • Jamaica dominates Jeter injured in Shanghai

    Eugene Hoshiko/AP SHANGHAI (AP) -- Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai on Saturday, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the women's 100 meters and Warren Weir capturing gold in the men's 200. Carmelita Jeter, who pulled up at the finish with an apparent leg injury. Jeter fell to the track after the race and lay on her back ...

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