Contador skipping cycling world championships Sep 4, 2009
A Bolt-Bekele showdown would be the biggest match race since 200 and 400 Olympic champion Michael Johnson raced 100 champion Donovan Bailey over 150 meters in Toronto after the 1996 Atlanta Games. Johnson pulled up lame halfway through that race and the legacy of the event is more a joke than anything else. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
Super human Usain defies gravity Aug 18, 2009
Only in the late 1980s, initially through the now-expunged times of Ben Johnson and then the likes of Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Donovan Bailey, did it start to edge down regularly, still usually by a 100th at a time. Maurice Greene began the era of chunk-taking when he took five hundredths off Baileys mark. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Evolution of men's 100-metre world record Aug 17, 2009
84, Donovan Bailey, (CAN), July 27, 1996 9. 85, Leroy Burrell, (USA), July 6, 1994 9. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Bolt scorches 100 field in world-record 9.58 Aug 17, 2009
84, Donovan Bailey, Canada, July 27, 1996. 9. (USA Today -- Sports)
Bolt set to bounce back in Manchester May 17, 2009
The world 100m and 200m record holder only confirmed his fitness to race last Monday and he said he was looking forward to the event in Manchester city centre where there are hopes he can break Donovan Bailey s fastest-ever 150m time of 14. 99 over the rarely-run distance. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
A patriotic heartbeat and scent of gold Feb 12, 2009
" Of course, it is his job to say that, and to believe it. But on the sporting front alone, consider the watershed moments of the past, the times when a game or a goal or a foot race seemed to define what it was to be Canadians: Paul Henderson scoring against the Russians in 1972; Ben Johnson breaking the tape in 1988; the Toronto Blue Jays beating the Americans at their own national pastime in 1992 and 1993; Donovan Bailey exorcising the ghosts of Seoul in 1996; a whole bunch of hockey teams in... (Globe and Mail)
