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The Netherlands Antilles Olympic committee appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the disqualification of sprinter Churandy Martina after he finished second in the Beijing Olympics 200 metres final.

Martina and third-placed American Wallace Spearmon were disqualified for running out of lane behind Jamaican Usain Bolt who won the race in world record time.

Defending champion Shawn Crawford of the United States, who crossed the line in fourth place, was promoted to silver while his team mate Walter Dix won another bronze after finishing third in the 100 metres

"The NAOC requests the CAS to annul the disqualification of Churandy Martina," CAS said in a statement. "USA Track and Field and the United States Olympic Committee have both requested to participate in this arbitration procedure."

The Netherlands Antilles Olympic committee appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the disqualification of sprinter Churandy Martina after he finished second in the Beijing Olympics 200 metres final.

Olympic champion Usain Bolt powers past fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell to win the 100 metres at the Memorial Van Damme Golden League meeting setting a new course record time of 9.77 seconds.

Susanna Kallur will skip the rest of the outdoor season in order to regain full fitness after a shin injury. The twice European champion over 60 metres has had the injury for most of the season.

Former US sprinter Marion Jones leaves a federal prison in Texas after serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about steroid use that helped her win five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

After a devastating end of an Olympic campaign which included a new personal best 12.43, US champion Lolo Jones showed the class and the heart of a champion.

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games gold medalist (by default), Enefiok Udo-Obong has charged the Athletic Federation of Nigeria has been advised to adopt the American system to attain the country's former height in track and field.

UGANDA's athletes will compete in Brussels with the objective of securing invites to the IAAF World Athletics final next weekend in Stuttgart, Germany.

The Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon route has been changed again. It's the third time that the course for the marathon has been altered.

4 September 2008 - Brussels, Belgium - The Belgacom Memorial Van Damme, the finale of the ÅF Golden League 2008, takes place in the Belgian capital on Friday 5 September 2008. The meeting will focus on Beijing achievements, a notable retirement, and of course the last stage of the ÅF Golden League $1 Million Jackpot.

4 September 2008 - Brussels – The travelling Willis family of five is down to two but don’t expect the man for whom the tour group was built to be the weaker for its dispersal here tomorrow. Nick Willis has already achieved his goal this season - an Olympic 1500m medal - but now he wants more.

4 September 2008 - Brussels, Belgium - Meeting Director Wilfried Meert succinctly summed up the stature of the guest star of today’s press conference ahead of tomorrow night’s finale of the ÅF Golden League 2008, the 32nd edition of the Memorial Van Damme meeting (Fri 5 Sep).

4 September 2008 - Brussels, Belgium - Playing host to 12 sub-1:43 performances in the 800m, the most at any one meeting, the Memorial Van Damme certainly has a storied tradition in the men’s two-lap contest.

4 September 2008 - Monte-Carlo - BOCOG, the Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008 have released the spectator / ticket data for the Athletics events (15 – 24 Aug) held in the National Stadium – Bird’s Nest – for the Olympic Games (9 – 24 Aug).

The curtains are drawing on the international track and field season and Abraham Chepkirwok is still soldiering on despite the Olympic Games disappointment.

ABRAHAM Chepkirwok's third place finish in the Lausanne, Switzerland Athletissima Super Grand Prix saw him cement his position at the top of the World Athletics Tour (WAT) 800m ranking.

Top international athletes are expected to compete at the sixth edition of the Safaricom Gusii Golden Series starting with Thursday's Mpesa Kisii 10-kilometre Road Race.

3 September 2008 - Brussels, Belgium - For the first time ever, the world’s three pre-eminent sprinters Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, will meet in the same 100m race when the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme meeting, the finale of the  ÅF Golden League 2008, takes place in the Belgian capital on Friday 5 September 2008.

3 September 2008 - Zagreb, Croatia – Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown leads a list of half a dozen Olympic champions confirmed for the Zagreb Grand Prix set for Tuesday, 9 September.

After failing to make it to the just concluded Olympic Games, marathoner Joseph Nsubuga is targeting to qualify for next year's World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany.