Usain Bolt intends to remain undefeated
Usain Bolt intends to remain undefeated in the 100 meters Friday at the meeting of Saint-Denis Areva counted for the Diamond Athletic League, despite inflamed left Achilles tendon which is not fully recovered.
“My main aim in Paris was not to be beaten. I am currently at 80 percent of my ability,” said Jamaica’s 23-year-old triple Olympic sprint at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the world in Berlin the following year, at a press conference Monday in Paris.
After a month off, Bolt has equaled 9.82 seconds in Lausanne in the world best in 2010 signed by his compatriot Asafa Powell.
“I am 100 percent in five weeks after doctors. For now, I stay on the straight. It is necessary that I avoid running into the curve next two weeks,” detailed Bolt, happy to come to Paris, “the world capital of shopping, but who does not make up the numbers on the Tartan Stade de France.
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“I think running around 9.70,” said Bolt, world record holder in the event, at a 100 m which looks royal. Eight of the nine have committed ran under 10 seconds this season, including the French Christophe Lemaitre, now in Valencia this weekend the first white athlete credited with less than 10 seconds over the distance of the sprint queen.
Lemaitre be surrounded by Bolt and Powell to his left to his right. Powell is the latest athlete to be dominated Bolt 100m two years ago, in July 2008 in Stockholm.
“The race in Stockholm, I analyzed to avoid repeating the same mistakes,” said Bolt. I feel fine, I’m well in training, I worked departures. ”
Bolt will hit U.S. $ 250,000 for his participation in the meeting Areva, which will allow him to do some shopping on the Champs-Elysees. “Shopping, I love it,” said the legendary Jamaican. The prints of his feet in gold were taken Monday and they now appear alongside those of Zinedine Zidane on the “Stade de France Boulevard, the roadway giants of world sport went through the walls of Saint-Denis.
Last year, Lawrence Bocquillet, the director of the competition, had paid U.S. $ 200,000 to bring the Jamaican. He believes that this is not “terribly expensive” compared to wages in particular France national football team. He estimated that 10,000 of the 33,000 tickets already sold have been the name of the legendary sprinter. Bolt confirmed on Monday that he will not participate in next month’s meeting at Crystal Palace, because of British tax system, too high according to his agent.
Nicknamed ‘lightning’ Bolt arrived in Paris in an electric atmosphere, thunderstorm, which could favor the first world record at the Stade de France.
The 110-meter hurdles and could enter the legend of St. Denis as will facing the Cuban Dayron Robles, Olympic champion and world record in the American David Oliver, credited with an explosive 12.90 seconds this season .
Other beautiful duels are scheduled for the ninth season round of the League of diamond Renaud Lavillenie undefeated this season, will face Olympic champion Steve Hooker’s pole vault; Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic will face revealing 2010 the height of Women, the American Chaunte Howard, while Teddy Tamgho any recent third world performer of all time, will face world champion in the triple jump as the Englishman Phillips Idowu. The javelin and 800m should also reserve beautiful wrangling.