The arbitration court of the sport  confirmed today the sanction taken against the American sprinter Justin Gatlin, concerning the four year old suspension for doping which he incurred.

The american will have to stop his dream of Beijing and this at three weeks of the beginning of the American athletics selections.

The Court specified that the date of the beginning of the suspension had been fixed at July 25, 2006, dates where Gatlin had accepted a temporary suspension.

From now, the American runner don’t have any justice recourse and he is forced to accept the decision. It will have to wait the end of its suspension i.e. in 2010, before being able to restart runs at the time of an unspecified compétion when it is 28 years old…

He will have to wait the end of the suspension i.e. in 2010 before being able to restart run at any competition and this at the age of 28… Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) revealed its list of the candidates cities to organise the 2016 summer Olympic Games.

The selected cities are:

- Chicago (United States)
- Madrid (Spain)
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Tokyo (Japan)

These four cities was selected betwenn 7 candidates. In addition to the 4 cities selected, Bakou (Azerbaïdjan), Doha (Qatar) and Prague (Czech republic) were not selected by the commission.

The decision will be known in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

It is known that safety during Beijing Games is one of the Chinese primary goals, especially after the rumours of terrorist attacks which weigh on the country.

On this subject, in order to not run any risk, 160 tracker dogs specialized in the explosives detection are awaited in Beijing to reinforce a local team of 44 other dogs.

After one month of intensive drive to target detection suspect or illicit things, all the dogs will be in services on competition sites, logistics centers, airports and residences.

Several races of dog are represented, we could see labradors or shepherds. Besides the local police uses them since 1 year to detect drug in the public places. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, the Chinese authorities drew up the list of all the things prohibited during the Olympic Games of Beijing. This list aims obviously the foreign visitors who will be in China to follow the competitions.

After drugs, weapons, ammunition, which are already forbidden in all the countries, the objects with aimed pornographic, as well as the public demonstrations and gatherings are prohibited if they did not have the authorization necessary.

Moreover any object or demonstration concerning Tibet or bearing reached in China will be sanctioned heavily and no authorizations will n be delivered in this kind of case.

You are now prevented… Read the rest of this entry »

Usain Bolt, a 21 years old jamaican runner, beat last Saturday in New York City the 100 meters race world record with 9″72 seconds. He dethroned his compatriot Asafa Powell who had carried out 9″74 seconds in Italy last September.

Saturday, the race profited from a wind of 1,7 meter/second old back but with difficult climatic conditions and rains.
After a world championship silver medail on 200 meters race, this yound runner already promises to make beautiful things in Beijing.

Watch the race in video : Read the rest of this entry »

The information is not official but that already starts to buzz on the Web : Leona Lewis, the British singer, could be present at the olympic closing ceremony in Beijing and to perform by the same occasion.

Since the closing ceremony must mark the relay with the next host city for next summer Olympic Games in 2012, in fact London, british personalities should be present. The London mayor Boris Johnson should be presend and accompanied by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the sportsman David Beckham, and the singer Leona Lewis.

After having conquered the United States and Europe lately, it will be the occasion for the singer to expose herself to the international scene and to benefit from this occasion to conquer new horizons.
Celine Dion had been an enormous success after her performance at Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. Leona Lewis should follow her steps.

For those who don’t know her, here is the song “Bleeding Love” in video, which has to reveal Leona Lewis : Read the rest of this entry »