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Victories in both 4x100m relays help the Americas to a narrow lead over Europe.

European discus champion Sandra Perkovic will be a Croatian national hero on show at the IAAF Continental Cup in Split this weekend. But as spikesmag.com discovered the 20-year-old is lucky to be here at all after suffering a near-fatal condition at the beginning of 2009.

The last two men's 800m world record holders are linked by more than being from Kenya. For Wilson Kipketer and David Rudisha have both been guided by Colm O’Connell, the former before he left to study engineering in Denmark in the early 1990s, and the latter, since Colm watched the teenage tyro decathlete(would you believe?) run a 400 metres for another school, and invited him to come and train with his group. The rest, as they say, is history.

American 100m record holder and the second fastest man in history Tyson Gay has denied speculations that he hates double world record-holder Usain Bolt.

Tyson Gay won the battle of 100m world leaders and Blanka Vlasic cleared 2.02m to highlight the 60th Anniversary edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, the final IAAF World Challenge meeting of 2010.