Sports round-up

Athletics: Usain Bolt stormed to the fastest 100m of the season last night, clocking 9.76 at the Diamond Lea-gue meeting in Brussels. Bolt, 25, bettered the previous season-leading time of 9.78 set by Asafa Powell in Lausanne on June 30. Olympic champion Bolt saw compatriot Yohan Blake take his world 100m title in Daegu last month after his infamous false start, but still collected gold in the 200m and 4x100m in Korea. He arrived in Belgium straight from Zagreb where he ran 9.85 on Tuesday, his best time of the season until yesterday.

Cycling: Lance Armstrong will be cycling competitively again next week as part of a three-sport all-terrain event in the Rocky Mountains. Armstrong will compete on September 24 in the US Xterra Championship at Snowbasin ski resort, an event that begins with a one-mile swim, continues with a 20-mile mountain bike ride and concludes with a six-mile trail run. Four-time world Xterra champion Conrad Stoltz has exchanged Twitter notes with Armstrong about the event, which will see the top performers in the world taking part.

Olympics: Hungarian uniforms at the 2012 London Games will bear the country’s name in Hungarian, ‘Magya-rorszag’, instead of its English version, Olympic committee member Istvan Kovacs said. “We have asked Adidas to display Magyarorszag instead of Hungary on the uniforms of Olympic athletes,” said Kovacs. “Several countries already use their country names in their mother tongues.” Hungary expects to send a 80-100-strong delegation to the 2012 London Olympics.

Boxing: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather, nagged by legal woes that could send him to prison, ends a 16-month layoff tonight by fighting Victor Ortiz for the WBC welterweight title. The all-American showdown could set the stage for Mayweather to finally face Manny Pacquiao next year in a bout that fight fans have sought for years. It also could mark Mayweather’s farewell, with a possible sentence of 34 years behind bars if convicted on all charges in a domestic violence dispute from last September involving former girlfriend Josie Harris.