{"id":21446,"date":"2012-07-10T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21446"},"modified":"2012-07-24T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:36:28","slug":"jamaican-supersprinter-usain-bolt-is-good-to-go-london-2012-olympics-news-21446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/jamaican-supersprinter-usain-bolt-is-good-to-go-london-2012-olympics-news-21446\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican supersprinter Usain Bolt is \u2018good to go’ \/ London 2012 Olympics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Usain Bolt\u2019s agent revealed on Monday night that the triple Olympic champion has made a full recovery from muscle tightness that hampered him at the Jamaican Olympic trials and is training normally and “good to go” to defend his titles in London.<\/h1>\n

Last week, Bolt flew to Munich for treatment by celebrated sports doctor Hans-Wilhelm M\u00fcller-Wohlfahrt just days after he suffered a double defeat in the 100 metres and 200m at the hands of his training partner, Yohan Blake.<\/p>\n

Following his 200m loss, his first over the distance outside a qualifying heat since 2007, Bolt was given hamstring-stretching treatment on the Kingston track.<\/p>\n

A statement was released a few days later to announce that he was being withdrawn from the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on July 20, where he was due to contest the 200m in his final competitive outing before the Olympics.<\/p>\n

The sprinter\u2019s subsequent journey to Germany for medical treatment raised fears that the world\u2019s greatest athlete was struggling with a serious problem just weeks before the start of the Olympics.<\/p>\n

But Bolt\u2019s agent, Ricky Simms, insisted the problem was nothing more serious than a tight hamstring and said that he was fully recovered and training normally.<\/p>\n

He added that Bolt was now in London, his usual European base during the summer, and would be remaining there until he joins up with his countrymen at Jamaica\u2019s pre-Olympic base in Birmingham before a few days before opening ceremony. Simms said there were no plans for Bolt to return to Jamaica before the start of the Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s back to normal, he\u2019s back in full training and he\u2019s good to go,\u201d said Simms, who dismissed reports that Bolt had been suffering from a more serious back problem and that his Olympic prospects had been in jeopardy. \u201cHis body is back to normal. The muscle tightness has gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news will be a major relief not just to Bolt\u2019s legion of fans worldwide but to the organisers of the London Games, who charged a top price of \u00a3725 for tickets to the men\u2019s 100m final. A race without a fully fit Bolt would have been a bitterly disappointing anti-climax.<\/p>\n

Simms said last week that, after feeling the hamstring tightness, Bolt had decided not to race flat out during the Jamaican trials for fear of causing further damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a slightly tight hamstring during the trials and that\u2019s why possibly he didn\u2019t push as hard as he could have,\u201d said Simms. \u201cHe was just protecting that. The main thing at the trials was to get through and get on the team for the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis coach decided that he needs to get a little bit of massage and treatment on that and rest up, and then train again hard next week so that he\u2019s ready for the Olympic Games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake, the world 100m champion and a fellow member of the Racers Track Club in Kingston, took advantage of Bolt\u2019s problem by beating him into second place in both the 100m and 200m.<\/p>\n

Bolt\u2019s trip to Germany to visit the doctor who is nicknamed \u2018Healing Hans\u2019 fuelled the injury speculation but Simms insisted it was a routine check-up that had been booked long before the trials.<\/p>\n

Bolt has been a regular visitor to M\u00fcller-Wohlfahrt\u2019s clinic since he was 16 because he has a congenital curvature of the spine that has been known to have a knock-on effect on his hamstrings.<\/p>\n

Simms also denied media reports that Bolt\u2019s support team had hoped to speed up the sprinter\u2019s recovery by hiring a mobile ice chamber from a British company.<\/p>\n

He confirmed that he had indeed been in contact with the company – but that the ice chamber was for the use of other athletes he manages, and not Bolt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, concerns that triple jumper Phillips Idowu, one of Britain\u2019s main gold medal prospects in London, might also be struggling with a serious injury problem have receded after the world silver medallist was named on the entry list for this week\u2019s Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n

Idowu has not competed since hurting his foot when landing awkwardly at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, in early June, and UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee admitted last week that he was in the dark over the seriousness of the issue.<\/p>\n

However, the 33-year-old has been confirmed on the entry list for Saturday\u2019s triple jump competition, where he will take on American world champion Christian Taylor in a key Olympic dress-rehearsal.<\/p>\n

London 2012 Olympics: Thousands of unsold tickets offered to Games sponsors<\/h2>\n

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Last year Lord Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said tickets that had not been sold by other nations should be given to the British public to help meet \u201cphenomenal\u201d demand.
\nBut the tickets, including thousands for main events such as the opening ceremony, swimming finals and gymnastics, are instead being distributed on an internal sales system to sponsors.
\nThe scheme will anger hundreds of thousands of people who have been unable to get tickets for the best events.
\nBaroness Doocey, a Liberal Democrat peer who is scrutinising the Games for her party, said: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely disgraceful. The principle is completely wrong \u2014there is no way that ticket returns should go to people who have already been incredibly well catered for. They should go to the long-suffering public and especially Londoners who have paid for these Games for the past decade.\u201d
\nIn July last year, Lord Coe told foreign national Olympic committees they should return unsold tickets to Britain.<\/p>\n

London 2012 Olympics torch relay: Sir Roger Bannister carries flame at scene of four-minute mile triumph<\/h3>\n

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Sir Roger was joined by London 2012 chairman Lord Coe at the Iffley Road track in Oxford to begin day 53 of the torch’s journey.
\nAt the track \u2013 now renamed in honour of the famous middle distance runner \u2013 the athlete broke the magical four-minute mile barrier on May 6, 1954.
\nSir Roger said: “It’s an honour to be included in a list of torch carriers which has included injured soldiers back from Afghanistan and other places, and I’m glad that it’s taking place on this track in Oxford where I ran the four-minute mile in 1954.
\n“It brings back happy memories and it also brings back some remembering of the weather. Today it looks like it might rain and that day the weather was so bad that I nearly decided not to attempt it.
\n“In retrospect I’m glad because if I hadn’t attempted it that day I might not have had another chance.\u00a0A host of sporting celebrities will carry the flame on Tuesday as it travels 87 miles and is transported by 111 torch bearers in total.\u00a0The flame will travel from Oxford via Henley-on-Thames where five-times Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave will carry it in a boat to the Leander Club, the prestigious rowing club.<\/p>\n

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will watch the final handover of the torch at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n\n

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