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By Larry FineNEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Usain Bolt, who shattered the world record each time to capture Olympic gold in the 100 metres, 200 and 4×100 relay, dismissed speculation his sudden rise to supremacy was aided by doping.
A WITNESS item by Mike Collett which moved at 1305 GMT on Friday detailing his recollections of the Ben Johnson 1988 Seoul Olympics drugs scandal should have made clear in the standfirst that he was not working for Reuters at the time but rival agency, UPI.
By Martyn HermanLONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Costs for the athletes’ village and the media centre at the 2012 London Olympics are under scrutiny as the consortiums responsible for their construction try to raise money during the global economic crisis.
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BERLIN (AP)—German long jumper Kofi Amoah Prah retired after receiving a two-year ban for cocaine use.
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(Repeats item first moved at 0105 GMT)Mike Collett, now Reuters soccer correspondent, was covering the athletics competition at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and vividly remembers the day Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for drugs following his victory over Carl Lewis in the 100 metres final.
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(Repeats feature first moved at 0105 GMT)By John Mehaffey
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Twenty years divide two astonishing Olympic 100 metres finals where the world record was not merely broken but shattered.
At the 1988 Seoul Games muscular Ben Johnson exploded from the blocks to cross the line in 9.79 seconds, four hundredths of a second faster than his own world mark. This year the elongated Usain Bolt clocked 9.69 seconds in Beijing, bettering his old record by three hundredths of a second.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)—Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has bought the operating rights for the Los Angeles Marathon and will switch the race from Sunday to Monday next year.
McCourt’s newly formed company, Going the Distance, purchased the rights from Chicago-based Devine Racing Management. The City Council unanimously approved the transfer on Thursday.
