World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100 metres of all-time to win the American Olympic trials, a wind-assisted 9.68 seconds. The victory put Gay into his first U.S. Olympic team but the wind speed of 4.1 metres per second deprived the 25-year-old of a world record. Only marks set with assisting winds of 2.0 metres per second or less can be considered for record purposes.
Senza quella raffica di vento, che soffiava a 4,1 metri al secondo (ben oltre il limite di 2 fissato dalla Iaaf per omologare i tempi), Tyson Gay sarebbe ora l’uomo più veloce del mondo. Ma il suo 9′68″ sui 100 metri nei trials Usa, la gara che assegna i pass olimpici, gli regala solo il biglietto per Pechino.
Kurt Busch had strategy and luck on his side. Tony Stewart had neither.
That’s how Busch wound up ending his 29-race winless string Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the rain-shortened Lenox Industrial Tools 301, while the frustrated Stewart simply added another disheartening loss to his own winless string that has reached 31 races.
A first-half goal by Fernando Torres gave Spain their first major trophy in 44 years after a 1-0 Euro 2008 final win over Germany. The victory at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, rounded off a superb tournament for the Spanish, for whom it was a second European triumph in addition to their 1964 win.
A Vienna, la nazionale allenata da Aragones conquista il secondo Europeo della sua storia battendo 1-0 i tedeschi in finale. Decide un guizzo dell’attaccante del Liverpool al 33′ del primo tempo. Le furie rosse chiudono il torneo senza sconfitte e fanno festa dopo 44 anni.
Max Neukirchner moved into contention at the sharp end of the World Superbike standings after claiming victory in race one at Misano. The Alstare Suzuki rider is up to second place in the riders’ standings behind long-time leader Troy Bayliss after his second win of the season was followed by a seventh place in race two, which was won by Sterilgarda Ducati’s Ruben Xaus. Ducati Xerox ace Bayliss came home in third in both races to ensure his lead at the top remains a healthy one, with the Australian on 259 points, 49 clear of Neukirchner.
Max Neukirchner (Suzuki) e Ruben Xaus (Ducati) vincono a sorpresa le due gare del GP San Marino, ottava prova del Mondiale SBK a Misano. Il favorito Troy Bayliss (Ducati) finisce due volte terzo. Max Biaggi (Ducati), abbattuto da Michel Fabrizio in prima manche, salva la giornata con un grande secondo posto che segna il ritorno sul podio dopo 13 gare di digiuno.
