Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has pulled out of next week’s Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

Czech Republic police have arrested a man who sympathised with Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik and may have been planning a bomb attack, authorities said at the weekend.

Brian Gregan will line up for today’s final of the men’s 400m at the European championships in Helsinki as a live medal hope after another impressive performance in the semi-finals that saw him claim automatic qualification by finishing second.

Jessie Barr and her brother Tom will have an eye on Olympic qualification when they line up for their respective first round heats of the 400m hurdles at the European track and field championships in Helsinki today.

Dwain Chambers admitted emotions had to be “put to one side” as he prepared to compete in his first relay for Great Britain for six years.

JOE SWEENEY strengthened his stranglehold on the domestic cross-country scene when he produced another powerful front-running display to retain his Woodies DIY inter-counties title at Sligo Racecourse yesterday.

DEIRDRE RYAN (Dundrum South Dublin) was named Athlete of the Year at the National Athletics Awards in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry on Saturday night.

OLIVE LOUGHNANE (Loughrea AC), silver medallist in the women’s 20k walk in Berlin two years ago, will lead the Irish team into the World Championships in Daegu, Korea, at the end of the month.

PAUL HESSION returned to the scene of his fastest run to claim his place in the 200m at next year’s Olympic Games in London.

CIARÁN Ó LIONÁIRD (Leevale), fresh from his sensational 1,500m run in Oordegem, Belgium, will contest the 800m at this weekend’s Woodies DIY national senior championships at Morton Stadium, Santry.

RUAIRI FINNEGAN (Letterkenny AC), a finalist at the world youths championships a couple of weeks ago, claimed the gold medal in the 1,500m at the European Youth Olympics in Trabzon, Turkey, yesterday.

CIARA MAGEEAN (City of Lisburn) kept Irish athletics in the headlines after winning silver in the 1,500m at the European junior track and field championships in Tallinn yesterday.

BRIAN GREGAN took his career to anew level with asilver medal in the men’s 400m at the European U23 championships with a new personal best time of 46.12 secs in Ostrava on Saturday.

National champion and record holder Paul Hession claimed a brace of second place finishes at today’s 60th running of the Cork City Sports meeting.

THE eight-man Irish squad of Elite boxers completed a perfect day with eight semi-finals wins from eight at the Ostrava Grand Prix in Ostrava city in the Czech Republic yesterday.

Peter Hanson lurks as the biggest danger to first round leader Shiv Kapur at the Czech Open – and to Paul Casey in the Ryder Cup race.

England’s Simon Dyson shook off jet lag and boosted his Ryder Cup hopes with four closing birdies when the Czech Open began at the Prosper Resort in Celadna today.

Miguel Angel Jimenez’s joy at seeing Martin Kaymer win the United States PGA title on Sunday was not only because he likes the young German.

Simon Dyson today provided the starkest contrast imaginable to Europe’s stay-away Ryder Cup stars.

Usain Bolt’s plans for an assault on Michael Johnson’s 400 metres world record are likely to go on hold until after the London Olympic Games.

World 100 metres and 200m record holder Usain Bolt will move up in distance at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava on May 27.

PAUL HESSION and David Gillick will round off what has been a sensational season for Irish sprinters, when they compete in the VTB World Athletic Final in Thessalonki tomorrow and Sunday.

PAUL HESSION believes David Gillick has a superb chance of claiming a bronze medal at next month’s IAAF World Championships in Berlin.

PAUL HESSION has made no secret of the fact that he will be going for a fast time at The Mardyke this evening when he will assume star billing for the men’s 200m at Cork City Sports.

PAUL HESSION bids to keep his unbeaten four-year record at the Mardyke intact when he competes in tomorrow’s Cork City Sports (2pm).

ALAN O’BRIEN (Crusaders) was relatively unknown when he won the IMC 800m at Cork City Sports last year.

SPRINTERS Paul Hession (Athenry AC) and Derval O’Rourke (Leevale AC) will captain the Irish team to compete in the European Team championships in Slovakia this weekend.

OLIVE LOUGHNANE is ready for the race of her life in tomorrow morning’s women’s 20k walk in Beijing, according to coach Ray Flynn.

ALISTAIR CRAGG is Ireland’s latest Olympic injury concern.

IRISH sprinting sensation Paul Hession revealed he his sights set on qualifying for a place in the 200 metres final at the Beijing Olympics.

PAUL HESSION singled out Brendan Christian (Antigua & Barbuda) as the favourite to win the race before he went to the line for last evening’s 200m at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting in Oslo and then went on to challenge him for the lead coming off the bend.

PAUL HESSION will make an eagerly-awaited seasonal debut next week in Malmo, Sweden, where the Athenry sprinter will try to repeat last year’s record-breaking opener.

Irish athlete Colin Quirke has qualified for the final of the shot put at the World Youth Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

COACH John Mwithiga isconfident his Kenya squad can dominate on home soil in this weekend’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

ERIC DONOVAN, a gold medallist at the multi-nations tournament in Ostrava, provided Ireland with a much-needed victory in his featherweight contest against the Polish champion, Michal Chudecki.

DARREN O’NEILL tonight appears in an international vest at the National Stadium for the first time when he climbs into the ring against Poland.

THE basket girls and boys are the envy of other youngsters at all major athletics meetings. They are the privileged ones who get to carry the athletes’ gear. For years, Derval O’Rourke was one at the Mardyke.

Derval O’Rourke, winner of last month’s World Indoors 60 metres hurdles title, is setting her sights on reproducing that form outdoors.

DAVID GILLICK will have the A standard for the world championships in Helsinki as his target when he lines up for the 400m at the European Cup in Leiria, Portugal, on the weekend of June 18/19.

PAUL McKEE, bronze medallist in the 400m at the world indoor championships in Birmingham, is on the way back and is predicting medals from the 4x400m relay at next year’s European championships in Gothenburg.

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