Usain Bolt Withdraws from KIngston this weekend, by Alfons

Usain Bolt from Beijing, China, August, 2009. Photo by Photorun.net.

Bolt not running on Saturday
KINGSTON (JAM): Triple olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt will not compete on Saturday at Jamaica Invitational in Kingston
after his car accident. Although nothing major happened that is the decision taken with his coach Glen Mills. Here the release by his agent, Ricky Simms of Pace Sports Management:
“We are pleased to report that Usain Bolt is fine after his car accident in Kingston yesterday afternoon. He has been released from hospital and will have a few days rest as advised by the JAAAâ€™s doctor. The main injuries were to his left foot when he stepped on some thorns when getting out of the car. After consultation with Coach Mills and JAAAâ€™s it has been decided that, as a precaution, he will not run in the Kingston International on Saturday. We will continue to monitor his progress over the next few days. It is too early to say if this will have any impact on his training and racing programme in the next few weeks. His next scheduled race is the Manchester City Games on May 17th. We would like to thank the public for the many calls and messages of support for Usain.â€
Special thanks to Alfons Juck, EME News.
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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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