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Bolt and Blake in running for top IAAF award
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 05 - 10 - 2011

Jamaican sprint kings Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake have both been shortlisted for the 2011 World Athlete of the Year award, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced Monday.
Blake won the world championships 100m title in Daegu last month when his world record-holding compatriot was disqualified for a false start.
And the duo sprinted to landmark times at the Diamond League last month, Bolt running the fastest 100m this year and Blake the second fastest 200m in history.
Britain's Mo Farah has also made the cut after the 28-year-old won world gold in the 5,000 meters in South Korea and claimed silver in a closely fought 10,000m.
Also included are Kenya's marathon world record holder Patrick Makau, middle-distance runner David Rudisha, German discus thrower Robert Harting, Japanese hammer thrower Koji Murofushi and Grenadian sprinter Kirani James.
American triple-jumper Christian Taylor and compatriot Jesse Williams, who competes in the high jump, also made the shortlist.
The women's list includes three Russians - world heptathlete champion Tatyana Chernova, high jumper Anna Chicherova and javelin thrower Maria Abakumova — American duo Lashinda Demus and Carmelita Jeter, New Zealand shot-putter Valerie Adams and Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown.
Kenyan long distance runner Vivian Cheruiyot, Botswanan 400m runner Amantle Montsho, who won her country's first ever gold medal at the world Championships, and Australian sprint hurdler Sally Pearson complete the shortlist.
The 10 male and 10 female candidates have been selected by an IAAF panel of eight experts with the winners to be announced on Nov. 12.
Cheats blasted
Former champions Colin Jackson and Daley Thompson hit out at drug cheats Monday, saying they had wrecked some sports and ruined the reputation of athletics.
“I don't have any sympathy when it comes to cheats,” Jackson, twice world 110m hurdles champion, said at an anti-doping conference.
Jackson and Thompson, twice Olympic decathlon champion, said athletes who took drugs to enhance their performance should face life-long bans from competition.
“I would always say that a ban is never long enough,” Jackson said, adding that he felt “a sense of hatred” toward athletes who cheated.
The Welshman said the actions of competitors such as British sprinter Dwain Chambers had “cast a massive shadow” over the achievements of clean athletes.
In 2003, Chambers was given a two-year athletics ban and a lifetime Olympic ban for using tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, a banned anabolic steroid.
Chambers made a comeback to the sport and won gold over 60m at the European and world indoor championships in 2009 and 2010 respectively, though he remains barred from the Olympics.
Thompson said life-long bans were the only way to send a strong message to cheats.


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