US$300,000 For Usain Bolt To Run At Paris Diamond League

Organizers of the July 2013 Paris Diamond League will reportedly be paying Jamaican track star Usain Bolt US$300,000 in order to guarantee his appearance at the event.

The 26 year old Bolt won 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at last year’s Olympics in London, repeating the feat that he first achieved in Beijing four years earlier. Before his repeat last year, Bolt’s fee was reportedly US$250,000 per meeting.

The Paris Diamond league meeting will be the ninth on the main athletics circuit this year.

Jacques Harvey Leaves MVP Track Club For Lance Brauman’s Camp

Reports indicate that one of Jamaica’s most promising young sprinters, 21 year old Jacques Harvey, has left the MVP Track Club for the programme of Florida-based coach Lance Brauman. There he will reportedly join up with fellow Jamaicans Ramone McKenzie and Nickel Ashmeade along with American superstar Tyson Gay.

Harvey’s most notable achievements thus far are: (1) Winning gold in the 100m (time of 10.14 seconds) at the 2011 World University Games in China and (2) Winning the college 100m race at the Penn Relays earlier this year.

Jamaicans at the 2012 Brussels Diamond League – September 7, 2012 – Results

Several Jamaicans competed yesterday in events at the Brussels Diamond League meeting in Belgium. From a Jamaican perspective, the highlights of the day were: (1) Usain Bolt clinching the overall Diamond League 100m title with a narrow win over Nesta Carter (2nd) and Kemar Bailey-Cole (3rd); (2) Kemar Bailey-Cole doing a new personal best time of 9.97 seconds in that 100m race; (3) Yohan Blake dominating the 200m race, winning in a time of 19.54s ahead of his training partner Jason Young and (4) Kaliese Spencer being confirmed as the overall Diamond League winner in the women’s 400m hurdles race which she won.

Below we’ve detailed the results of all the events in which Jamaicans participated earlier today at the 2012 Brussels Diamond League:

Women’s 400m Hurdles

Men’s 110m Hurdles

Women’s Triple Jump

Men’s 100m

Men’s 200m

Men’s 400m

RANK	ATHLETE	NATION	RESULT		REACTION TIME	DIAMOND POINTS	DIAMOND RANKING
1	BORLÉE Kevin	BEL	44.75		0.166	10	1
2	BORLÉE Jonathan	BEL	45.02		0.183	9	3
3	GORDON Lalonde	TRI	45.13		0.184	2	5
4	SANTOS Luguelín	DOM	45.31		0.209	10	2
5	ROONEY Martyn	GBR	45.56		0.183
6	SMITH Calvin	USA	45.58		0.240
7	TAYLOR Angelo	USA	45.80		0.199	6	4
8	FOTHERGILL Allodin	JAM	45.87		0.219
9	MCDONALD Rusheen	JAM	46.63		0.196

Women’s 200m