Dwain Chambers (GBR) finished off his fast weekend in Turin with a European Championship over 60 meters with a nice 6.46. Chambers is the only man to run under 6.50 this season, doing so twice in Turin. His run sets him up to potentially run in the 9.8x range for 100 meters outdoors. Making him a potential challenger to the top sprinters including Usain Bolt (JAM), Tyson Gay (US), Asafa Powell (JAM), Richard Thompson(TRI) and Walter Dix (US). Setting up quite a quandary for the sport, as Chambers is the first individual to compete faster after a ban that he was competing before the ban. Britain’s response has been to…

Dwain Chambers clocks the first sub 6.50 60 meters of the season by blazing to a 6.42 in his Semifinal heat of the European Championships. Chambers run was a European Record and made him the #3 Performer All Time, with the =6th All Time performance. Chambers now trails only Maurice Greene (6.39) and Andre Cason (6.41) All Time. Chambers could be in pursuit of Greene in tomorrow’s final. Also in Turin Johan Wissman of Sweden added the years first and only sub 46 400 to date with his 45.89 Euro Champs win. And add Ryan Bailey to the list of impressive freshmen this indoor season as the frosh from Bend…

Snipets of the Dwain Chambers book have been leaking out on the Internet as a result of it being serialized In Sportsmail. .And, of course, as with “Speed Trap” and other books, it appears that he is ready to “tell all” – or at least a bit of what he knows. Already John Regis, his agent, is being investigated because Chambers says that Regis knew he was doping. Once again doping is in the headlines of the sport. In its quest to become a truly professional sport and command world wide attention, support, and dollars, track and field in my opinion has three crucial areas that are stumbling blocks –…

Plans to upgrade the “Golden League” to a new “Diamond League” were announce this past week. Beginning in 2010, it will expand the current race series to include meets outside of Europe with stops in China, the United States and perhaps Doha, Qatar. With locations still to be solidified the Diamond League could have anywhere from 12 to 15 meets. Each meet is scheduled to offer over $400,000 in prize money with the stated goal of tieing the sports biggest stars to multi meet contracts to encourage head to head competition. Nice to see this “Circuit” of meets extend beyond Europe. If the sport is to grow the worlds top…

A championship weekend of sorts, but I have to say it really didn’t feel like one. Several collegiate conferences had their championships, the most notable being the SEC. Competitive as always, I was most taken by the fact that as deep and strong as the SEC is, it is being dominated this year by FRESHMEN! Second (Ryan Fleck, AUB, 7′ .50″), third, fourth AND fifth in the men’s high jump, all freshmen. Winner of the women’s pole vault (Rachel Laurent, LSU, 14′ .50″); runner up in the men’s heptathlon (Gray Horn, Florida, 5586); double winner in the long jump and triple jump (Christian Taylor, Florida, 25′ 3.5″ & 52′ 10.25″);…