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Michael Gleeson

Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.

Happy to be back: Australian hurdler Sally Pearson.

Sally Pearson third in her first race back from injury

While Australia focused on Usain Bolt at the Nitro Athletics, on the other side of the world the country's former world and Olympic champion Sally Pearson finished third at an indoor meet in Germany in her first serious step back on the road from injury.

Usain Bolt in Melbourne on Friday.

Bolt's early start could be a golden finish

Usain Bolt can't remember the last time he was running in February, he is normally in the doctor's hands not the starter's, but he hopes that his farewell year competing in Nitro this week will help set him up to leave the sport in London with three more gold medals.

Usain Bolt training at Albert Park.

Bolt coy on what event he'll run - but he will run

Usain Bolt's presence for Nitro athletics has ensured that Channel Seven will broadcast the series – on Saturday night it will be live in Sydney and Perth but in Melbourne it will be on delay after the AFL women's match.