Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt isn't hurt in crash
NEWSWIRE
He crashes his car in Jamaica, but neither he nor a female passenger are seriously hurt.
Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt was in a car crash Wednesday in Jamaica, but police and his manager said he was not seriously injured.
Bolt was apparently speeding on a rain-slicked highway when he lost control of his car and it went off the road, police Sgt. David Sheriff told the Associated Press. Sheriff was the first officer to arrive at the scene in St. Catherine parish and found the car heavily damaged.
Bolt and an unidentified female passenger were taken to the hospital, though neither was seriously hurt, Sheriff said.
The track star's manager, Norman Peart, said Bolt sustained nothing more than scratches from thorn bushes when he stepped out of the car on the side of the road.
"We are very relieved he's OK," Peart said. "Everybody is fine."
OLYMPICS
Athletes identified in blood doping
The gold medalist in one of track and field's glamour races and a silver winner in cycling are among six athletes from the Beijing Games nabbed for blood doping in the latest Olympic drug scandal.
National sports bodies in Bahrain and Italy confirmed that 1,500-meter champion Rashid Ramzi and road race medalist Davide Rebellin turned up positive for the new blood-boosting drug CERA in retests of their samples. Dominican women's weightlifter Yudelquis Contreras and prominent German cyclist Stephan Schumacher were among the others. A person with knowledge of the results told the AP that Greek race walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka and Croatian 800-meter runner Vanja Perisic also tested positive.
TENNIS
Murray loses at Rome Masters
Andy Murray lost only his fourth match of the year, falling to Argentine qualifier Juan Monaco, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5, in his opener at the Rome Masters.
Elsewhere, top-seeded Rafael Nadal dispatched Andreas Seppi, 6-2, 6-3, No. 2-seeded Roger Federer defeated Ivo Karlovic, 6-4, 6-4, and sixth-seeded Fernando Verdasco ousted American Mardy Fish, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.
Jurgen Melzer upset seventh-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, 7-5, 7-6 (5).
HOCKEY
U.S. blows lead but avoids Russia
The United States blew a three-goal lead in the third period and lost, 6-5, in overtime to Sweden in the ice hockey world championship at Bern, Switzerland.
