A round-up of today's other sports news in brief...
Bolt leads a Jamaican sweep
ATHLETICS: Usain Bolt beat Asafa Powell in their eagerly awaited 100 metres clash in 9.77 seconds at the Memorial Van Damme meeting in Brussels.
Powell had a slight lead at the halfway point.
But his countryman produced a huge surge in the last 20 metres to pull clear and win by 0.06, with Nesta Carter making it a Jamaican clean sweep, placing third in 10.07.
Byrne second in dressage warm-up
PARALYMPICS: Eilish Byrne, Ireland's sole competitor in the equestrian events at the Paralympic Games, finished second in the Grade 2 dressage warm-up competition at Sha Tin racecourse in Hong Kong yesterday, writes Margie McLoone.
Drawn first to go with her chestnut gelding Youri, the 44-year-old recorded a score of 64.95 per cent, just behind British winner Felicity Coulthard who finished on 66.75 per cent with Roffelaar.
Byrne will undertake her first competition tomorrow.
Lynch to appear at FEI hearing
EQUESTRIAN SPORT: Denis Lynch, whose mount Lantinus was one of four horses withdrawn from the final rounds of the individual show jumping at the Olympic Games last month after failing a drugs test, is scheduled to appear before a hearing of the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) in Lausanne today, writes Margie McLoone.
A three-member panel of the FEI tribunal will hear evidence from the riders this weekend but any announcement from the body on Monday will only confirm that the hearings took place.
It will be four to six weeks before decisions are published regarding what sanctions, if any, will be imposed on the riders who remain suspended until then.
Khan says that Prescott can't
BOXING: Amir Khan believes predictions of a four-round knockout to Breidis Prescott simply highlight the one-dimensional gameplan of his Colombian challenger.
The South American arrived in Manchester for tonight's clash at the MEN Arena predicting he would take Khan's WBO Intercontinental title away from him before 12 minutes had elapsed.
However, Khan (21), believes the bravado from Prescott, whose record shows 17 knock-outs in 19 wins, points to his weakness rather than his strengths.
The Bolton fighter said: "He is a known fighter in America and has topped the bill over there, but I am going to do what I normally do, I'm not going to give the guy a chance.
"He can say what he wants, that he is going to knock me out in four rounds. I think he has made a big mistake saying that because it shows that he is a four- or five-round fighter."
Former sprinter Jones out from behind bars in Texas
ATHLETICS: Former US sprinter Marion Jones left a federal prison in Texas yesterday after serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about the steroid use that helped her win five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Jones (32), left the minimum security facility in San Antonio, Texas, at 2pm Irish time, a prison spokeswoman said.
For years, the track star denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but in October pleaded guilty to two charges of perjury and was sentenced in January by a federal judge in New York. Jones reported to prison on March 7th.
She admitted she had lied to federal investigators in 2003 when she denied knowing she took the banned tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), known as "the clear", before the 2000 Olympics.
Massa sets early pace in Belgium
MOTOR SPORT: Ferrari's on-form Felipe Massa set the pace in Belgian Grand Prix free practice yesterday, while team-mate Kimi Raikkonen again looked out of sorts.
Brazilian Massa, six points behind McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in the championship after winning in Valencia last month, dominated a chilly and overcast morning session with a lap of one minute 47.284 seconds.
He was then second in the afternoon, just 0.050 slower than Renault's former champion Fernando Alonso's quickest lap of 1:48.454.
World champion Raikkonen, winner of the last three races in Belgium but without a victory since the end of April, was second quickest in the morning in 1:47.623, but spun off into the barriers after lunch when a light drizzle descended.
The Finn nursed his stricken car back to the pits without the broken rear wing that had fallen off in the middle of the track. Italian Giancarlo Fisichella also crashed his Force India and the session was stopped for 10 minutes while marshals scrubbed fluid off the circuit.
