Two-time Olympic reigning sprint double champion Usain
Bolt won the 100-metre title at the Jamaican Athletics Championships on Friday
to qualify for August's World Championships.
Bolt, who broke free from the pack after 60 metres, shut
it down as he crossed the line in 9.94 seconds, with rising star and training
partner Kemar Bailey-Cole second in 9.98 and Nickel Ashmeade third in 9.99.
Ashmeade is the training partner of Tyson Gay, who ran
9.75 to win at the US Track and Field Championships
Bolt figure to have a showdown in the 100 at the
World Championships in August at Moscow along with defending champion Yohan
Blake of Jamaica.
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World No.2 Novak Djokovic has reportedly closed in on top-ranked Rafael Nadal in the latest men`s tennis rankings issued by the ATP following his Miami Masters win over the Spaniard.
Djokovic halved a deficit of almost 4 000 points four weeks ago with his second career Indian Wells/ Sony Open double-winner and on 11, 810 points is now less than 2, 000 points behind Nadal, who has 13, 730.
According to Sport24, Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland is third and Canada`s Milos Raonic returned into the top 10, up from 12 to 10, after gaining a place in the Miami quarter-finals.
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India Open Super Series badminton tournament gets underway with the qualifiers at the Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi today. Ace shuttlers Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu and K Srikanth will be country's best bets in the competition, which has a world-class field. In its fourth edition, the India Open will be a big opportunity for the country's shuttlers to show their mettle in front of the home crowd against some of the biggest names in the game.
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FIFA ordered local matches scheduled at the country's 12 World Cup stadiums from May 20 to June 1 to be shifted in an e-mail sent to Brazil's state federations and published by sports news service Globoesporte on Monday.
The Brazilian championship will begin a six-week recess on June 1 to accommodate football's showpiece event.
"(We) have been adamant on this issue to date, making no exceptions," FIFA's competition director Virgilio Elisio said in the e-mail.
The decision follows complaints by Brazilian players about the state of the country's World Cup pitches.
Among venues to be criticised include Rio's Maracana stadium and Mane Garrincha stadium in Brasilia.
Sao Paulo's Itaquerao stadium will host the tournament opener between Brazil and Croatia on June 12. The final will be played at the Maracana in Rio on July 13.
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