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Athletics: Heptathlon

Britain’s golden girl got her bid for heptathlon gold off to a flying start in the hurdles and didn’t look back, finishing the job in style on a golden Saturday night in the Olympic Stadium.

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Athletics: Long jump

Rutherford kept his red head ice-cool on a night when the temperature in the Olympic Stadium just kept on rising. He took the lead with a second-round leap of 8.21m, and extended that by 10cm with his fourth-round jump to secure an unexpected gold.

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Friday September 7
King Baudouin Stadium,
Brussels
BBC Two 7pm

Usain Bolt’s world tour is all but over for 2012. For tonight’s final Diamond League meeting of the season in Brussels looks set to be his last outing of a year that was slow to get out of the blocks, but ended up paved with yet more gold.

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Fast learner

Just four years ago, amputee Jonnie Peacock knew little of the Paralympics and even less about sprinting. Now he’s set to be the quickest sprinter at London 2012

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Thursday August 23
Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
BBC Three 7pm

Being a legend doesn’t mean you can just sit on your legendary backside, as Usain Bolt (pictured) is about to find out.

The Jamaican 100m and 200m Olympic champ is set to run in the Lausanne Diamond League event tonight, proclaiming a special affection for the Stade de la Pontaise and “one of the best curves I have ever seen”.

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Thursday August 23
Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
BBC Three 7pm

Being a legend doesn’t mean you can just sit on your legendary backside, as Usain Bolt (pictured) is about to find out.

The Jamaican 100m and 200m Olympic champ is set to run in the Lausanne Diamond League event next Thursday, proclaiming a special affection for the Stade de la Pontaise and “one of the best curves I have ever seen”.

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Hackney's best known hop, skip and jumper tweeted his defiance after finally revealing his battle for fitness ahead of what should be his fourth Olympics. But if there's one thing Sport learned when we spoke to Phillips Idowu about some of the most important moments in his career, it is that fighting against his body's failings is nothing new. And he'll do whatever it takes to be on that runway come Tuesday morning.

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Sport chats to British high-jumper Robbie Grabarz, who has vaulted into contention for Olympic gold with an incredible leap in form in 2012

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Usain Bolt, Jamaica

AGE 25
PB 9.58s (Berlin, August 2009)
SEASON'S BEST 9.76s (Rome, May)