Gatlin sprints from unknown to 100m gold
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Reuters Athens Aug 23: American Justin Gatlin roared from virtual unknown to win the blue ribband Olympic menâs 100 metres race yesterday, upstaging defending champion Maurice Greene and other more illustrious rivals.
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Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin receives a four-year ban for doping, says the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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Justin Gatlin became the fastest man in the world after winning the men&#39;s 100 meters dash at the 28th Olympic Games Sunday evening.
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American Justin Gatlin won the Olympic 100 metres Sunday night, and China, in a race almost as close, picked up four gold medals to edge ahead of the United States after nine days of competition at the Athens Olympics.
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It was only a hundredth of a second but Justin Gatlin said it felt like a hundred miles as he won the closest and possibly greatest 100 metres final in Olympic history on Sunday.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus wins 100m gold ahead of Lauryn WIlliams.
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Great British sprint quartet Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis blew away the American favourites with a breathtaking relay run to take the 4x100 metres Gold in 38.
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Reigning Olympic and world 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin said Saturday he has been informed that he tested positive for testosterone or its precursors, the same positive test that has thrown Floyd Landis' victory at the Tour de France into question.
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Britain's men's 4x100m relay team win a stunning gold medal in Athens.
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Justin Gatlin won the fastest Olympic race in history by a face. His face. The very face that might finally change track for the better.
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.
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ATHENS, Greece - Shawn Crawford, Maurice Greene and Justin Gatlin of the United States each qualified for tonight&#39;s 100-meter finals - the most riveting 10 seconds of each Olympics.
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Shawn Crawford was all business Tuesday morning, speeding to victory in 20.55 seconds in his first-round heat of the 200 &#151; a sharp contrast to his antics in the early rounds of the 100. Crawford, who finished fourth in the 100 after dominating the early rounds, was joined in the second round by U.S. teammates Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin, the 100-meter gold medalist.
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ATHENS - As soon as the little-known Belarusian sprinter crossed the finish line to win the womenâs 100 metres, the cross-examination began.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin's arbitration hearing on doping charges will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30-31, his attorney said on Tuesday.
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It was only the second round of the 100 meters, yet the world's top sprinters already were playing a lightning-quick game of "Can You Top This?" Five men broke 10 seconds Saturday, with Shawn Crawford's time of 9.89 the best of the round. And several top competitors slowed before the end, which means there could be some incredibly fast times in the semifinals and final Sunday night.
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Track and field Sprinter Justin Gatlin got his doping ban reduced, but not by enough to make him eligible to defend his Olympic 100-meter title this year. An arbitration panel, in a 53-page ruling released yesterday, reduced the 25-year-old sprinter's potential eight-year ban to four years. With the ban set to expire May 24, 2010, it means Gatlin would be ...