In the thrilling men's 4x100 relays event at the world championships, a US disqualification sees China go from bronze to silver in a historic race.
Chinese Su Bingtian clocked 9.99 seconds to reach the men's 100m final at the world athletics championships here on Sunday.
The 15th IAAF World Championships opens in Beijing
As they jostle in the jet stream of Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin, Asian athletes will be battling for regional crown at the championships in Beijing.
The simmering sprinting feud between the United States and Jamaica will be reignited at the Bird's Nest this weekend, but you'd never know it by looking at perhaps the calmest man on the planet, Usain Bolt.
Usain Bolt, the laid-back Jamaican who just happens to be the fastest man ever clocked, against Justin Gatlin, the super-intense American who has blown away every foe he's faced in this track season.
As they jostle in the jet stream of Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin, Asian athletes will be battling for regional crown at the championships in Beijing.
Usain Bolt, the 28-year-old sprint great from Jamaica, artfully dodged questions about doping in track and field and his rivalry with twice-suspended US runner Justin Gatlin during a meeting with a select band of journalists in Beijing on Thursday.
100m: 9.58, Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 16/08/2009
200m: 19.19, Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 20/08/2009
400m: 43.18, Michael Johnson (USA) Seville 26/08/
Briton Sebastian Coe was elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday, beating Ukraine's Sergey Bubka by 115 votes to 92 in a ballot of the governing body's 50th Congress
More than 3,800 journalists are expected to convene in Beijing between Aug 22 and 30 to cover the World Athletics Championships. In preparation for their arrival, organizers put media centers for the tournament into service on Saturday.
Environmental protection will be the theme of the opening ceremony of the IAAF World Championships, according to the director of the ceremony.
"If he needs to be efficient, you have to be more efficient. Try to think ahead before he asks."
Wang Chaoying, a student at the University of International Business and Economics, who is volunteering as attache for the General Secretary of IAAF Essar Gabriel.
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