Usain Bolt said Saturday he will enter both the 100 and 200 meters at the Beijing Olympics, after all.
The Jamaican sprinter broke the world record in the 100 by finishing in 9.72 seconds May 31. But he had said he would leave it up to his coach, Glen Mills, to decide whether it made sense to compete in that event in addition to the 200, which had been considered his specialty.
As recently as last weekend, Mills expressed concern that going for the sprint double at the Olympics could hurt Bolt’s chances of winning the gold medal in the 200.
• Swimmer Jessica Hardy will try to have her possible two-year suspension “reduced substantially” after a failed drug test cost her a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
• The IOC stripped gold medals from the U.S. men’s 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Olympics in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew’s admission that he was doping at the time.
Nadal’s quest put on hold
MASON, OhioWASHINGTONLAS VEGASMONMOUTH, N.J. — Rafael Nadal’s move to No. 1 will have to wait a couple of more weeks.
Looking weary after two months of nonstop winning, the 22-year-old Spaniard got run around the court and, ultimately, bounced from the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament one step short of another title match. Instead, Novak Djokovic reached the final with a 6-1, 7-5 victory that delayed the inevitable.
The third-seeded Djokovic will play Andy Murray for the title today. Murray reached his first Masters series final by beating Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 6-4.
• Teenager Dominika Cibulkova ousted her fourth seeded player of the tournament, rallying after a rain delay to defeat Marion Bartoli 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the final of the Rogers Cup in Montreal.
The 19-year-old will play seventh-seeded Dinara Safina, a 6-0, 2-6, 6-3 winner over 11th-seeded Victoria Azarenka.
United shuts out Wizards
Luciano Emilio scored his 11th goal of the MLS season and Jaime Moreno had a goal and an assist to help D.C. United beat the Kansas City Wizards 2-0.
• Brad Davis scored in the 13th minute and Brian Ching also scored to help the Houston Dynamo extend its unbeaten streak to five games with a 2-0 win over the Columbus Crew.
• Patrick Nyarko scored an early goal to give the Chicago Fire a 1-0 win over Chivas USA.
Clottey captures IBF title
Joshua Clottey finally made the most of his precious few title shots, capturing the vacant IBF welterweight championship with a unanimous decision over Zab Judah.
• Victor Darchinyan took the IBF junior bantamweight title from Dimitri Kirilov with a fifth-round knockout in a fight in Tacoma, Wash., that Darchinyan dominated.
Big Brown is Haskell favorite
Big Brown, the winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness who was completely off his game in the Belmont, returns to the track as the favorite in today’s $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.
The Associated Press
