Brussels - Isi wins 1/3 of $1 million jackpot
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:03 am
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Two legends in Brussels; three contenders for the Million - PREVIEW - ÅF Golden League
Brussels, Belgium – Two racing legends, Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele, the second of whom along with Sanya Richards and Yelena Isinbayeva will try to negotiate the final hurdle to at least share the US$1 Million Jackpot provide the focus of tomorrow night’s star-studded Belgacom Memorial Van Damme - ÅF Golden League meeting in the Belgian capital (Fri 4).
Three contenders for last Jackpot
On present form the Jackpot contenders, Bekele (5000m), Richards (400m), and Isinbayeva (Pole Vault), who set world season leads, the latter a World record, last week in Zürich seem to be unbeatable. But then roll back your memory and think of the previously peerless Isinbayeva kneeling head in hands on the landing mat in Berlin, no height registered on the scoreboard. That’s the beauty of sport, nothing is ever certain.
Will a similar result happen in Brussels? Very unlikely! By the manner in which the 2008 World Athlete of the Year last week scaled three heights on her first attempts culminating with 5.06m, World champion Anna Rogowska might need to lower her ambitions to the runners-up spot as the highest possible attainable achievement in the King Baudouin Stadium.
Bekele is opposed by 14 Kenyans in a 5000m field of 22 runners, Eliud Kipchoge, fifth in Berlin but also the 2003 World champion and Beijing Olympic silver medallist, will be his chief opponent.
In the women’s 400m, Richards faces World silver and Olympic bronze medallist Shericka Williams of Jamaica, as well as Britain’s Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu.
Two legends in Brussels; three contenders for the Million - PREVIEW - ÅF Golden League
Brussels, Belgium – Two racing legends, Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele, the second of whom along with Sanya Richards and Yelena Isinbayeva will try to negotiate the final hurdle to at least share the US$1 Million Jackpot provide the focus of tomorrow night’s star-studded Belgacom Memorial Van Damme - ÅF Golden League meeting in the Belgian capital (Fri 4).
Three contenders for last Jackpot
On present form the Jackpot contenders, Bekele (5000m), Richards (400m), and Isinbayeva (Pole Vault), who set world season leads, the latter a World record, last week in Zürich seem to be unbeatable. But then roll back your memory and think of the previously peerless Isinbayeva kneeling head in hands on the landing mat in Berlin, no height registered on the scoreboard. That’s the beauty of sport, nothing is ever certain.
Will a similar result happen in Brussels? Very unlikely! By the manner in which the 2008 World Athlete of the Year last week scaled three heights on her first attempts culminating with 5.06m, World champion Anna Rogowska might need to lower her ambitions to the runners-up spot as the highest possible attainable achievement in the King Baudouin Stadium.
Bekele is opposed by 14 Kenyans in a 5000m field of 22 runners, Eliud Kipchoge, fifth in Berlin but also the 2003 World champion and Beijing Olympic silver medallist, will be his chief opponent.
In the women’s 400m, Richards faces World silver and Olympic bronze medallist Shericka Williams of Jamaica, as well as Britain’s Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu.