Bolt impressive as he warms up for sprints On Track, with Annelise Jerling IN just his second race of the year, triple Olympic gold
medalist Usain Bolt won the 400m at Kingston‘s National Stadium on Saturday in 45.54 seconds, improving on his 46.35 win a week previously. The lanky Jamaican sprinter shot to the front 70m into the race and never looked back as he won by a comfortable margin from the eight-man field. Bolt is using the 400m races to help him increase his stamina as he prepares for his main focus of outdoor season – the 100m and 200m – and aims to duplicate his 2008 Olympic victories in the two events at the world championships in Berlin later this year. qq FORMER Olympic women‘s hammer throw champion Kamila Skolimowska died last week while attending a training camp in Portugal. Only 26 years old, she lost consciousness during training and on the way to a medical centre she suffered another attack. Efforts to resuscitate her failed. Skolimowska was the youngest Olympic champion in 2000 and also won two medals at European Championships. She appeared in the 2008 Olympic final, but failed to register a valid throw.
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