Olympic champion Bolt hurt in car crash

World record sprinter Usain Bolt, of Jamaica, suffered minor injuries in midweek when he crashed his BMW sports car on the outskirts of his Caribbean homeland's capital, authorities said.

The 22-year-old 100 and 200 metres Olympic champion lost control of the high-powered vehicle and plowed into a ditch on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

He was treated in hospital along with his brother and a female companion after injuring his left foot as he stepped out of the car, but was later released, his manager Norman Peart said in a statement.

"We are keeping a close watch on Usain and will update the public as is necessary," he said.

The injury may see Bolt miss an invitational athletics meeting in Kingston tomorrow. The sprinter is also slated to run in a 150 metres street race in Manchester, Britain, on May 17.

"We will see how he is in the next few days before coach (Glen) Mills will decide if he is able to run on Saturday," Bolt's agent Ricky Simms told Reuters in an e-mail.

Marathon

Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru will lead Kenya's marathon team at the athletics World Championships in Berlin in August, officials said yesterday.

Wanjiru, fresh from winning the London Marathon on Sunday, will lead a team of five men and five women, among them twice Olympic silver medal winner and twice world champion Catherine Ndereba, and Salina Kosgei, who won in Boston on April 20.