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By Jon Hendershott, Track and Field News; Posted May 15, 2012 Image by PhotoRun The day before Carmelita Jeter headed off from Los Angeles to Korea for Wednesday’s IWC meet in Daegu—site of her first world 100 title last summer—the 32-year-old sprint queen shared some thoughts with us looking ahead to the Olympic Trials: T&FN: You started this season—which you yourself have said is going to be a long year with the Olympics—with a 22.31 for 200 in mid-April and then a 10.81 in your first 100 in Kingston on May 5. So...

Johnson City, Tennessee (May 15, 2012) ---2011 100 meter World Champion Carmelita Jeter (Nike/USA) sits atop the world rankings in both the women’s 100 meters and 200 meters with speedy early season marks of 10.81 and 22.31, respectively. Jeter, who anchored the U.S. 4 x 100 meter relay to a dominating performance earlier this season at the 2012 version of the Penn Relays, also earned a silver over 200 meters in Daegu to go along with 4 x 100 meter relay gold. Indoor world championships silver medalist Murielle Ahoure (Ivory Coast) joins...

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By Behance; Posted May 11, 2012 Carmelita Jeter is an amazing athlete specializing in the 100m and 200m sprint. She currently holds the title of "World's Fastest Woman" and is the favored gold-medalist for the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics. ### Full Article HERE

By David Monti, Competitor; Posted May 10, 2012 Photo By: PhotoRun.net Irishman Ciaran O’Lionaird, the former Florida State star who finished tenth at last summer’s world championships at 1500m, has decided to switch training groups in advance of this summer’s Olympic Games. O’Lionaird, 24, has made the 130-mile drive from Portland to Eugene to train with the Oregon Track Club Elite under coach Mark Rowland. Previously, O’Lionaird had trained with another Nike-sponsored group, the Oregon Distance Project under coac...

By Gary Kingston, Vancouver Sun; Posted May 10, 2012 Photo By: Paolo Bruno/Getty Images From frustrating to foul, Canadian shot putter Dylan Armstrong’s 2012 season was creating more of a thud than the sound the 16-pound steel sphere makes when tossed by one of track and field’s spinning behemoths. But down in the western Caribbean this week, far from the London-prep spotlight, the Kamloops native showed you can find a return on investment in the Cayman Islands that has nothing at all to do with money. The hard-training, 300-lb. Arm...

By Javier Robinson, IAAF; Posted May 10, 2012 By Errol Anderson/SportingImage.net World Champions Yohan Blake and Carmelita Jeter blazed to fast 9.84 and 11.04 seconds at the inaugural Cayman Invitational Wednesday night (9) at Truman Bodden Sports Complex track in Georgetown, the Cayman Islands. Jamaicans Warren Weir (20.13 in 200m) and Novlene Williams (50.35 in 400m) also produced world class times. Just four days after World record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt’s world lead of 9.82 at the Jamaica Invitational in Kingston, Bla...

By Associated Press, TSN; Posted May 10, 2012 By Michael Steele/Getty Images Canada's Dylan Armstrong won the men's shot put at the Cayman Invitational on Wednesday with a throw of 21.15 metres. The native of Kamloops, B.C., who was ranked No. 1 in the world in shot put last season, battled injuries over the winter but appears to be on form heading into the London Olympics. American-born Justin Rodhe took second place with a throw of 20.36 metres after being cleared by the IAAF to represent Canada in London. Rodhe, who lives and trains in Kamlo...

By Gary Smith, Sporting Alert; Posted May 9, 2012 Sprinters Walter Dix, Carmelita Jeter and Kirani James, as well as throwers Tatyana Lysenko and Betty Heidler are amongst the already confirmed stars for the Colorful Daegu Meeting, organisers said on Tuesday. The track and field meeting, which will take place on May 16 is part of the IAAF World Challenge series. Americans Dix and Jeter, who have both started the new campaign brightly, will race in the men’s ans women’s 100 metres dash fields. Grenadian superstar James, who is looki...

By Paul A Reid, Observer; Posted May 8, 2012 Photo By Brian Cummings Top Jamaican female 400m star Novlene Williams-Mills will enter tomorrow's inaugural Cayman Invitational track and field meet on a high note after Saturday's stirring run in defending her JN Jamaica International Invitational (JII) title at the National Stadium. Williams Mills, who later credited the Jamaican crowd for giving her the motivation to catch the fast-starting American Sanya Richards-Ross, dug in and produced a stirring stretch drive that saw her win in a world-lead...