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Lee sizzles at Jamaican high school championships
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Kingston, Jamaica - World Junior and Youth champion Dexter Lee won his first senior (Class One or Under-20) boys' title at Jamaica's High Schools Track & Field Championships, Boys' and Girls Champs, on Friday (3).
Herbert Morrison's Lee, who won the World Junior 100m crown last year in Poland and the Youth title in Czech Republic in 2007, took Friday's event in a personal best 10.31. St Jago's Nickel Ashmeade, who won the 200m silver at last summer's World Juniors, was second in 10.37.

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Hooker scores unusual double - Texas Relays Days 1-3
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Austin, Texas, USA - Destinee Hooker scored an unusual double at the Texas Relays on Friday (3).
First, she cleared a world outdoor-leading 1.92m to win the women’s High Jump. Then, as she was walking off the track, she was confronted by her boyfriend, Clifton Gay, who knelt in front of her, offered her a 1.5-carat diamond ring, and asked her to marry him.
Ms. Hooker did what any sensible young woman would do in such a situation: she burst into tears. A few minutes later, as she wiped the tears away, she said, “Yes.”

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Against a loaded field, Makau ready for anticipated debut - Rotterdam Marathon preview
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Although he has never run a full Marathon, Patrick Makau will start as one of the favourites in Sunday’s 29th edition of the Fortis Rotterdam Marathon.
The Fortis Rotterdam Marathon is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race.
With eight sub-60 minute Half Marathons under his belt and experience on the very fast Rotterdam course where he finished second in 2007 (59:19) and won in 2008 (59:29), it is almost a simple case of logic that the soft-spoken Kenyan who just turned 24 is to be considered as one of the favourites on Sunday.
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Tamgho to Tango in Paris - AF Golden League
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Paris, France Teddy Tamgho, the reigning World junior champion in the Triple Jump, is among the first French athletes confirmed for the Meeting Areva, the fourth fixture of this season’s ÅF Golden League, on Friday, 17 July.
One of the most promising rising stars in the sport, Tamgho illustrated during the recent indoor season that he could well be the future of his event. Not yet 20 that milestone will be celebrated on 15 June Tamgho leaped 17.58m in Paris in February, a jump which landed him just outside the event’s all-time top-10 indoors.
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Nakuru race a stroll in the park for Asbel Kiprop AK weekend meeting 3
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Nakuru, Kenya - What was billed to be a fierce battle in the 1500m turned out to be a stroll in the park for Olympic silver medalist Asbel Kiprop at the third New KCC/Athletics Kenya weekend track and field meeting at the Afraha Stadium in Nakuru.
On Friday, the stage had been set for what would have been a dramatic finale after former World indoor champion Daniel Kipchirchir Komen coming back after a long spell out with injury and loss in form qualified for the final with the fastest time of 3:44.03 on the murram track.
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