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Not dead yet, but Nitro in doubt after sale falls through

Usain Bolt

Australia's radical Nitro Athletics event - with teams, a three-minute mixed distance challenge and elimination mile - turned traditional athletics on its head and brought crowds flocking to see Usain Bolt in Melbourne. But now it has hit a hurdle.

Knee injury robs Comm Games of one of its biggest stars

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk will miss next year's Commonwealth Games due to a knee injury.

The Commonwealth Games has lost its biggest draw card with the heir to Usain Bolt's athletics throne, South Africa's Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk ruled out of next years games on the Gold Coast and his career is in limbo after suffering a serious knee injury in a celebrity touch rugby match.

Bolt says he's serious about a soccer career

Football fanatic: Usain Bolt with John Aloisi.

AUSTIN, Texas: Usain Bolt says he is serious about starting up a soccer career now he has retired from sprinting -- and believes he could even be good enough to play for Jamaica.