"I'll never stop looking flawless!" vows Canada's Damian Warner after winning the 100 meter race of the decathlon at the Hypo 2012 in Goetzis, Austria on Saturday. The London-born Warner won the 100m and 110m hurdles with times of 10.59s and 13.78s.
Canada's leading decathlete started very strong but came up short of automatically qualifying for the London 2012 Olympics, reports the London Free Press. "Warner finished with 7,961 points. The Canadian Olympic A standard is 8,200 points. Warner’s total surpassed the B standard of 7,950 and it might still get him to England if no other Canadian makes the A standard before the Games start July 27.
Warner's next chance at qualifying for London 2012 will be June 27-30 in Calgary. Two more photos AFTER THE JUMP ...
Ashton Eaton is fit and fabulous after winning the 1,500m in the decathlon at the World Track & Field Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Eaton beat Cuba's Leonel Suarez by about 5 seconds, which secured the Oregon track phenom the silver medal.
Trey Hardee successfully defended his World decathlon title and won the gold, giving Team USA its first 1-2 finish in the event at the Worlds. More sporno and Ashton gets a facial AFTER YOU JUMP ...
Cuban track phenom slash Olympic medalist Leonel Suarez—who always looks great in a track singlet—adds yet another medal to his growing collection. Suarez won bronze in the decathlon at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu South Korea.
Suarez took silver in the decathlon at the Worlds in Berlin 2009. Suarez also won bronze at Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Set your TiVos. The XIII World Athletics Championships will be held next week in Daegu, South Korea from August 27th to September 4th. Cuba has announced its sporno-tastic and testosterone heavy roster will be lead by R20 faves and Olympic medalists Leonel Suarez and Dayron Robles, according to Radio Havana and Guantanamo TV.
Along Suarez, his teammate Yordanis Garcia, javelin and runner-up in the previous event Guillermo Martínez, Victor Moya in high jump, Carlos Veliz, Misleydis Gonzalez and Mailin Vargas in shot put, Yipsi Moreno in hammer, and Yanet Cruz in javelin will also depart this week to the Korean appointment. Yoandri Betanzos ....among others, complete the official roster.
Guillermo Martínez is seen above at the 2009 Worlds in Berlin—where he famously performed a few backflips after winning silver in the javelin.
Dayron Robles won gold in the 110m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics. Robles' Olympic-sized bulge became quite the conversation topic across the internets. More recently: Robles beat hurdles super hotness David Oliver on August 5 in London. Robles, Oliver and China's Liu Xiang are expected to fight it out for the gold in Daegu.
The Bryan Clay cover and accompanying editorial for the November Fitness Rx is sooo hot that it hurts. The "World's Greatest Athlete" and Olympic gold medalist is photographed by sports photographer Per Bernal in HD. Clay's "bulging" muscles are literally jumping off the page.
Clay won decathlon gold at the Beijing Olympic Games and says his goal is to set a world record "every time" he competes. "I am going to win the World indoor multi-event in Doha in march 2010 and plan to win a medal at the 2012 Olympics in London."
Confidence and hotness. JUMP for the cover. Enjoy.
Rod 2.0 crush object Leonel Suarez of Cuba takes the silver with 8,640 points for the ten events of the decathlon at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. The Olympic bronze medalist recorded a great time (4:27.25) in the 1,500-meter race, the final event of the grueling two-day competition. But still not enough to win the gold, which went to the American hotness Trey Hardee who collected 8,790 points.
The 21-year-old Leonel Suarez is Cuba's "top" decathlete and was seen on Rod 2.0 earlier this year looking extremely fit in all the right places. More of Leonel Suarez's bulging muscles WHEN YOU JUMP...
Turning to the hotness that is the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin: A grueling first day in the decathlon. Norman Müller, the 23-year-old German hotnes and the national decathlon champ, celebrates after the high jump event.
Müller is from Eisleben, Saxony in the former East Germany. He's also the indoor heptathlon champion and his score after the first day of the grueling competition is 3335. At Number 14, that's not the best, so cheer him on.
WHEN YOU JUMP, more Norman Müller in the 100 meters and a fabulous sequence of images from the long jump. Oh and do enjoy the bottom photo at the pole vault. Talk about the best in German engineering.
Viva Cuba! Cuba's top decathletes post record scores in the decathlon at the Aurelio Janet Memorial
over the weekend in Havana. The dynamic duo are Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Leonel Suarez and 2007 Pan American
Games runner-up Yordanis Garcia. Twenty-one--year-old Leonel Suarez was captured by Outsports photographers last spring and definitely looks fit in all the right places.
IAAF reports, "Both posted the highest totals ever for a Decathlon in Cuba as Suarez
scored 8415 points and Garcia a personal best of 8365 points. Suarez set the national Heptathlon indoor record with 5959 points in
early February this year, and Garcia came close with 5905 two weeks
later in Seville."
Turning to your evening Olympic update. The "World's Greatest Athlete" title returns to the USA as Bryan Clay wins the Men's Decathlon gold at the Beijing Olympic Games .
The 28-year-old Clay completed the 10-discipline event with 8,791 points to beat Andrey Krauchanka of Belarus and Cuba's Leonel Suarez by a wide margin. Krauchanka and Suarez took the silver and bronze 8551 and 8527 points, respectively.
A triumphant moment for Bryan Clay, who failed to win in Athens four years ago. "I can't tell you how happy I am to have completed something I have been working on for so long. It's a dream come true," said Clay, who hopes to become the first decathlete to win three Olympic medals in London in four years time. "It's the start of something good and if my body holds up I'm hoping to be capable of doing this again in 2012."
