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Zwei Monate vor Paralympics: Floors verbessert Weltrekord Stand: 10:00 Uhr Quelle: dpa-infocom GmbH Anzeige Leverkusen (dpa) - Zwei Monate vor den Paralympics hat die deutsche Gold-Hoffnung Johannes Floors den eigenen Weltrekord über 200 Meter verbessert. Der beidseitig unterschenkelamputierte Leverkusener war beim Sportfest auf seiner Heimanlage mit 21,04 Sekunden acht Hundertselsekunden schneller als bei seiner eigenen Bestmarke vom September 2009 in Paris. Auch die Weltrekorde über 100 Meter und 400 Meter in der einstigen Klasse von «Blade Runner» Oscar Pistorius hält Floors seit de...

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SALT LAKE CITY -- One win and they’re in. After struggling mightily in the early going, the Trail Blazers settled in and settled down to come away with a 105-98 victory versus the Utah Jazz in front of a crowd of 6,506 Wednesday night in Salt Lake City. “I like that we kept our composure after a slow start,” said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. “We didn’t shoot the ball well, we got down early on the road and we kept our composure, kept competing, found a way to make it close in the first quarter.” The Trail Blazers are now 41-29 overall and 22-13 on the road this season. ...

Sometimes, when a team is really struggling, as the Trail Blazers have the last few weeks, it takes an uncommon performance to snap out of it. Tuesday night, Anfernee Simons did just that. The 6-3 guard in his third season out of IMG Academy made his first nine three-point attempts to spark a 133-112 blowout of the Indiana Pacers Tuesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. “It felt good, we needed one like this,” said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. “We’ve had a tough stretch, obviously, and it was good to see some good shooting. I thought our defense picked up late in the second...

PORTLAND -- With Jusuf Nurkic sitting out Saturday’s game as a precaution, Trail Blazers assistant coach Jon Yim challenged his backup, Enes Kanter, to go above and beyond in order to make up for the absence. “This morning I had a conversation with Coach Yim and he said ‘You better get 20-20 tonight,’ recounted Kanter. “It started this morning, he was giving me a lot of advice. He said ‘Hey, listen, Nurk is out so you just have to play extra hard, go out there and do what you do best, get every rebound.’” Kanter might not have grabbed