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STUTTGART, Germany (AFP) - World record holder Asafa Powell admitted
he was delighted to dominate a strong field and win the 100 metres at
the World Athletics Finals in Stuttgart on Saturday.

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The Jamaican came home in a time of 9.83seconds, just ahead of
Norwegian Jaysuma Saidy Ndure who ran a new national record of
10.06sec in the first of Stuttgart's two days of competition.

Jamaica's Michael Frater was third while Portugal's Francis Obikwelu
was fourth.

"I am very happy and impressed to run this great time," Powell
said. "It is still the third fastest time."

A disappointing third at the Osaka World Championships, Powell
admitted that he underestimated world champion Tyson Gay and promised
he would not make the same mistake at next year's Olympic Games.

In the men's 400 metres hurdles, Poland's Marek Plawgo snatched
victory over world champion Kerron Clement in a photo finish.

Plawgo, the surprise bronze medallist in Osaka, stumbled over the
line and it was his dive which gave him the win in 48.35 seconds.

American Michelle Perry took the 100m hurdles title after a heavily
disrupted race.

Sweden's European champion Susanna Kallur was one of three athletes
disqualified as the race had three false starts before double world
champion Perry won in 12.68seconds.

But it was a lacklustre run from Perry without the challenge of the
Swede, who had beaten her in the final three Golden League meetings
of the season.

World record holder and world champion Russian Yelena Isinbaeva once
again dominated the women's pole vault as she won with a leap of
4.87metres.

It took World and Olympic champion Tatyana Lebedeva to bring the long
jump competition to life with a third-round leap of 6.78metres and
the whole event was over in just 50 minutes.

Kenyan Edwin Soi kicked to a decisive victory in the 3000 metres
after breaking from the pack with the line in sight to win in a time
of 7min 48.81sec.

In the men's 400 metres, American LaShawn Merritt won in a time of
44.58sec, while Estonia's Gerd Kanter was the first Osaka world
champion to claim victory with a second-round winning effort of 66.54
metres in the men's discus.

France's Muriel Hurtis-Houairi won a tight women's 200m race in 22.73
over early leaders LaShauntea Moore and Debbie Ferguson who she
passed on the homestretch and just pipped on the line.

Newly-crowned world champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal ran away with the
women's 1500 metres as she dominated a strong field including Russian
Yelena Soboleva and four other Osaka finalists.

And Vivian Cheruiyot, the second-fastest female 5,000m runner in
history, used a strong last lap to win the Kenyan-dominated race in a
time of 14mins 56.94seconds.

The event continues on Sunday.

Fri Sep 14, 6:08 PM ET



BRUSSELS (AFP) - Jamaican Asafa Powell remained upbeat after
unfavourable conditions compromised his bid to break his world 100
metres record at the fifth leg of the Golden League meeting here
Friday.

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Powell posted a winning time of 9.84sec to finish ahead of Norwegian
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure and Jamaican Michael Frater, the field racing in
a headwind of 0.3 m/s in temperatures of 17 degrees celsius.

Powell had set a new 100m world record of 9.74sec in Italy last
Sunday and said he could go faster, possibly as fast 9.68sec.

But the combination of a false start, and the unfavourbale conditions
conspired against him.

"I was unsettled by the false start, and the weather really wasn't
very favourable. Given the circumstances 9.84sec is a great time,"
said Powell.

American sprinter Sanya Richards clocked a world's best this year of
49.29secs on her way to victory in the 400 metres and improving her
previous best of 49:36.

"I'm going to have to recover well because Berlin (the last round of
the Golden League) is on Sunday. That won't be easy because the
season has been long," said Richards.

Victories by Richards and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva kept
the pair on course for a share of the Golden League's million dollar
jackpot, for which they will have to compete in the Stuttgart finals
on September 22 and 23.

Isinbayeva is the only other athlete who remains unbeaten in the
Golden League this year.

The Russian won with a modest effort, by her standards, of 4.80m to
defeat her compatriot Svetlana Feofanova.

Other notable performance were the world best time for the year set
by Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele in the 10,000 metres with a time of
26min 46.19 sec.

Bekele, 25, is the current world record holder over this distance
with a time of 26min 17.53sec which he set here two years ago.

Earlier, Ethiopian Meseret Defar set a new world best time for the
two miles event by clocking 8mins 58.58sec.

Defar, the Olympic 5000 metres champion, smashed her previous world
best of 9:10.47, set on May 20 in Carson, the United States.

Kenyan Paul Kipsiele Koech also set a world's best this year, for the
3000m steeplechase in a time of 7min 58.80sec.

The 25-year-old thus bettered his time of 7:59.42, set on August 7 in
Stockholm - an achievement that did not prove sufficient for the
Kenyan federation who did not select him for the world championships
in Osaka, Japan.

--- In asafapowell@yahoogroups.com, "jamaicantrackfan"
<jamaicantrackfan@...> wrote:
>
> Asafa Powell breaks 100m world record
>
> This is the highlight of the year for me.  Yes he did not win the
Gold at the Worlds but that will come.  He is just 24 and has many
more ahead of him.  The Olympic gold is definitely his.  He will
mature and become the complete athlete by then.  gay should watch
out.  he has won the last major title because Asafa is back and here
to stay. I know Asafa will rise to the occassion soon ans silence
his critics.
>
> ROME (AFP) - Jamaican Asafa Powell set a new men's world 100m
record
> of 9.74sec at the IAAF Grand Prix at Rieti, Italy, on Sunday,
beating
> his old mark of 9.77 set in Athens in June 2005.
>
> ADVERTISEMENT
>
>
>
> The 24-year-old Powell had predicted in Stockholm at the beginning
of
> August that he felt he was capable of beating the world record
this
> year.
>
> When asked about his physical limits, he said they were
around "9.74
> or 9.73, even below 9.70."
>
> Powell dominated the race ahead of Norway's Saidy Ndure Jaysuma
> (10.07) and 2003 world champion from St Kitts and Nevis, Kim
Collins
> (10.14).
>
> "After the world championships, where i made several mistakes, I
> worked with my coach so that I could regain my best form. Now I'm
> back!" said Powell on RaiSport.
>
> "I did what I had to do on a very fast and bouncy track. And then
> Italy is my second home," he said.
>
> At the Osaka world championships on August 26, the Jamaican failed
to
> win the 100m title, finishing third in 9.96sec behind Americain
Tyson
> Gay (9.85) and Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas (9.91).
>
> "I was in great shape and ready to go, but I made a huge mistake
in
> the final," he lamented at the time.
>
> Powell set his world-record 9.77 in 2005 and equalled it twice
last
> season on the way to being named male athlete of the year.
>
> He is yet to win a major title after false-starting at the 2003
> worlds, missing 2005 with injury and finishing fifth at the last
> Olympics.
>
> The Jamaican won last year's Commonwealth title but only after
> risking disqualification by veering into a competitor's lane
during
> the semi-finals.
>
> Gay had held till this record-breaking run the fastest time of the
> season of 9.84sec, set on June 22 in Indianapolis.
>

Asafa Powell breaks 100m world record



ROME (AFP) - Jamaican Asafa Powell set a new men's world 100m record
of 9.74sec at the IAAF Grand Prix at Rieti, Italy, on Sunday, beating
his old mark of 9.77 set in Athens in June 2005.

ADVERTISEMENT



The 24-year-old Powell had predicted in Stockholm at the beginning of
August that he felt he was capable of beating the world record this
year.

When asked about his physical limits, he said they were around "9.74
or 9.73, even below 9.70."

Powell dominated the race ahead of Norway's Saidy Ndure Jaysuma
(10.07) and 2003 world champion from St Kitts and Nevis, Kim Collins
(10.14).

"After the world championships, where i made several mistakes, I
worked with my coach so that I could regain my best form. Now I'm
back!" said Powell on RaiSport.

"I did what I had to do on a very fast and bouncy track. And then
Italy is my second home," he said.

At the Osaka world championships on August 26, the Jamaican failed to
win the 100m title, finishing third in 9.96sec behind Americain Tyson
Gay (9.85) and Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas (9.91).

"I was in great shape and ready to go, but I made a huge mistake in
the final," he lamented at the time.

Powell set his world-record 9.77 in 2005 and equalled it twice last
season on the way to being named male athlete of the year.

He is yet to win a major title after false-starting at the 2003
worlds, missing 2005 with injury and finishing fifth at the last
Olympics.

The Jamaican won last year's Commonwealth title but only after
risking disqualification by veering into a competitor's lane during
the semi-finals.

Gay had held till this record-breaking run the fastest time of the
season of 9.84sec, set on June 22 in Indianapolis.

Powell celebrates comeback with win in Rome By James Eve
Fri Jul 13, 5:52 PM ET



World record holder Asafa Powell made an impressive comeback from
injury by winning the 100 meters in 9.90 seconds at a Golden League
meeting on Friday.

Powell, who had not raced an individual 100 since suffering a groin
injury at the Jamaican national championships on June 23, streaked
away from the field in Rome to finish 0.12 seconds ahead of runner-up
Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas.

Powell's time was his best of the season and the second quickest
performance of 2007 behind the 9.84 mark set by Tyson Gay at last
month's U.S. trials.

Afterwards Powell told journalists he could have gone even faster.

"I eased up at the finish. I didn't want to put pressure after the
injury," he said trackside.

"It was frustrating to get the injury when I did -- at the start of
the Golden League, but I'm happy with the way I raced here.

"The clash between me and Tyson Gay in Osaka (at the world
championships) will be one of the showdowns of the year."

Powell's victory was one of a number of impressive track performances
on a warm, still night inside the Olympic Stadium.

The men's 5,000 meters produced the best performance of 2007, with
Sileshi Sihine of Ethiopia outsprinting Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge to win
in 13 minutes 1.46 seconds.

FASTEST TIME

World 100 hurdles champion Michelle Perry also set the fastest time
of the year in her event by winning in 12.44 seconds.

The American, who also won in Oslo and Paris, remains in the running
for a share of the $1 million jackpot available to athletes who win
their event at all six Golden League meetings.

"The Golden League hunt is still on," Perry said.

"I'm really excited. I started well, I executed it well in the middle
and I finished strongly."

Another American, Sanya Richards, remained in contention for the
jackpot by winning the 400 in 49.77 seconds.

There was disappointment, however, in the women's pole vault, where
the eagerly awaited duel between Russia's world record holder Yelena
Isinbayeva and the improving Jennifer Stuczynski failed to
materialize after the American pulled out with a back injury.

Isinbayeva underlined her supremacy in the event by clearing 4.90
meters at her first attempt -- 25 centimeters higher than second-
placed Katerina Badurova -- before failing three times at a world
record height of 5.02.

The meeting in the Italian capital also contained a moment of
unwelcome drama when French long jumper Salim Sdiri was taken to
hospital after being hit by a javelin.

Sdiri was crouching in the warm-up area to the left of the landing
area when the wayward javelin, thrown by Finland's Tero Pitkamaki,
hit him in the side.

An ambulance and a medical crew were quickly at the scene. Meeting
organizers later said Sdiri's condition as not serious.

No good.


Win in 10.04

Imperious sprinter Powell sends out world warning by Luke Phillips
Sat Jun 16, 12:59 AM ET



Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell has sent out a warning to
his rivals over the 100m, saying he is targeting world gold after
another blistering run over the blue riband event.

At the Bislett Games here on Friday, the first of the six-meet Golden
League series, Powell shot out from the blocks despite an initial
false start to dominate a strong field from start to finish.

In only his second race of the season, Powell's trademark style was
there for all to see, his head remaining tucked down through 40
metres before finally rising as he surged through to the line in
9.94sec.

Remarkably, it was Powell's 27th sub-10sec run over the 100m, which
he again looks set to dominate on the European circuit.

But while thoughts of claiming the one-million-dollar Golden League
jackpot, which he shared last season with American 400m runners
Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards, must cross his mind, Powell
insists he is focused on the worlds.

"The world championships are the most important thing this year. I
want to go the final and win a gold medal there," he said of the
August 25-September 2 event in Osaka, Japan.

"I just need to get everything back to normal. This is my building-up
phase. Everything's just coming back to me.

"9.94sec was a good time for me today. It was just as I wanted. Sub-
10 seconds is always good," said Powell, who was unbeaten in 16
outings last season and twice equalled his own world record of
9.77sec.

"I ran 9.96sec here last year so I'm at the same spot and I was a
little bit quicker than in my first race. Things are looking good for
me.

"This is my second race. I have a long season."

Powell said he was generally happy with his technique.

"After a false start it was a good start. The middle of the race
wasn't so good. I wasn't feeling it 100 percent," he said.

"It could have been better but I'm just coming back from injury. It
was better than last year."

Asked whether he was wary of facing American tyro Tyson Gay, Powell
said simply: "I'm ready for all my races."

And on the possibility of bettering his own world record mark of
9.77sec, Powell added: "I was running at this pace last year and in
my third race I ran 9.77sec, so we'll see.

"I am the best sprinter at the moment. I never doubt myself, and I
believe that I will win. Yes, I am the best."

"The most important event for me this year is the World Championships
but I also hope to win the Golden League Jackpot.

"The start of the series was good for me but I still have five more
races. To win the jackpot, it is going to be really tough."

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Athletics: Powell powers home on seasonal debut Tue May 29, 4:29 PM ET



Jamaica's 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell impressed on
his opening race of the season here on Tuesday winning in a time of
9.97 seconds to record the first time ever under 10sec in Serbia.

Powell, who has been off injured for several weeks with tendinitis in
his right knee, easily beat home the Dutch Antilles Churandi Martina,
who timed 10.11sec, while another Jamaican Michael Frater was third
in 10.19sec.

Powell was extremely relaxed and after the race saluted the record
20,000 spectators who turned up to see the Commonwealth champion
become the first athlete this season to run under 10sec.

"I was under pressure because it was my first race of the season,"
admitted Powell.

"However I am happy with my performance. The weather was superb and
it was an extremely well organised event.

"To date my season has been disturbed....but I am feeling very
relaxed and hungry for more competition."

Powell will next race at the meeting in Eugene, Oregon, on June 10,
probably over 200m, before returning to Europe for the first Golden
League meeting in Oslo on June 15.

Powell's compatriot Sherone Simpson, the fastest woman in the world
last season, was also set to make her debut but had to pull out
during the warm-up with a painful thigh.

In her absence Bulgarian Yvet Lalova prevailed in her first 100m in
two years after being out with a serious knee injury.

America's 2000 Olympics 400m hurdles champion Angelo Taylor showed he
is no slack performer over the flat 400m as he strolled home in
another time under 45sec, 44.98.

Kenya's Moses Maisai put in another noteworthy performance on the
night timing the best mark of the season for the 5,000m of 13min
08.81sec.

Prefontaine: Powell and Wariner join field for 200
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Asafa Powell, world-record holder in the 100-meter sprint, will face
400-meter Olympic and world champion Jeremy Wariner, and 2006 Olympic
200-meter winner Shawn Crawford, in the 200-meter sprint at the
Prefontaine Classic on June 10 in Eugene.

Elite sprinters Xavier Carter, Wallace Spearmon, Kelly Willie, Rodney
Martin and Chris Williams complete the field. Athletes must be ranked
in the top 50 in the world to compete in a Prefontaine event.

"There may have been other 200 fields with more talent," meet director
Tom Jordan said, in a media release Wednesday, "but . . . the tickets
to those meets had 'Olympic Games Final' written on them."

ASAFA returns!
... makes season debut in Serbia on May 29

Friday, May 11, 2007



THE long-awaited season debut of world 100-metre record-holder Asafa
Powell in his pet event will take place in 18 days at the second
AthleticsBet meet in Belgrade, Serbia.


POWELL... 25 sub-10 second clockings in career
Hampered by tenonitis in the knee for the past month, the 2006 IAAF
Male Athlete of the Year pulled out of three meets - the Mt Sac
Relays (April 15), Penn Relays (April 28) and last Saturday's (May 5)
Jamaica International Invitational.

However, agent representative of the MVP Track Club Paul Doyle has
confirmed that Powell - the 2006 Commonwealth champion who registered
a record 12 sub-10 seconds clocking last season, is fully recovered
and will run his first competitive 100 metres in just over two weeks.

"Well, his first meet will be in Belgrade on the 29th of May," Doyle
told the Observer in an exclusive interview from Doha, Qatar,
yesterday. He said Powell's training partner Michael Frater, the 2005
World Championship silver medallist, along with some European
athletes, will contest the 100 metres.

"It's sort of a low-keyed meet and as an opener we figured it would
be a good start for Asafa... it gives him enough time before the
Eugene (Oregon, USA) meet, the Prefontaine Classic (on Sunday, June
10)," Doyle added, noting that the Jamaican star will have 12 days
between both meets.
He also disclosed that Powell will compete at this year's first
Golden League meet - the Exxon Mobil Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway -
on June 15.

Powell - who twice equalled his world record 9.77secs on June 11 in
Gateshead, England, and August 18 in Zurich, Switzerland, becoming
the first man to legally run under 9.8 seconds on three occasions -
won a share of the US$1-million Golden League jackpot by winning all
six races in the series last season.
American quarter-milers Sanya Richards and Jeremy Wariner, who
experienced similar success on the European Circuit, shared in the
jackpot.

Doyle said Powell, who was sidelined for roughly three weeks because
of the knee injury, after recording two personal best 400 metres
times in January (47.67secs) and February (47.17 secs) has been
running full tilt in training under the guidance of renowned coach
Stephen Francis and his staff.

"He's actually been training fine now," Doyle said, adding that "for
the past week or so, he's been able to go 100 per cent.
"His block-starts has been great and he's run some all-out 300 metres
as well and everything is holding up with the hamstring and the knee,
so he seems to be back to 100 per cent and working hard to make up
for the three weeks (training) that he missed," Doyle said.

With a career 25 sub-10 second clockings to his credit, which ranks
him fourth on the all-time list behind American Maurice Green (52),
Trinidad & Tobago's Ato Boldon (28) and Namibia's Frank Fredericks
(27), Powell will be aiming to become the first Jamaican to win a
world 100m title in Osaka, Japan, from August 25 and September 2.

"We're still expecting nothing but big improvements for Asafa this
year... he's put in a lot of work during the winter in the months of
January and February, running those 400s, so he has a lot of strength
and base built up in him, so missing three weeks of intense training
isn't going to affect him too much. He's still going to be able to
have a very long and fast season," Doyle said.

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Sore knee slows sprinter Powell
Sun Apr 22, 3:16 AM ET



Jamaica's World 100m record holder Asafa Powell has pulled out of
upcoming meetings because of tendinitis in his knee, his manager said
Saturday.

Powell was scheduled to run at next weekend's Penn Relays in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at the Jamaica International
Invitational Meet on May 5 here. In Kingston he was to have run his
first individual 100m race this year.

However, Powell's manager Paul Doyle said his athlete is not 100
percent and therefore they will not rush him into action.

Doyle also said the minor injury was the same one that prompted
Powell to withdraw from the Mt. Sac Relays in California last weekend.

Powell had made the trip to Walnut, east of Los Angeles, but decided
it was too windy and chilly to risk aggravating the knee.

"It's the same injury, but it's not too serious," Doyle said. "We
don't want him to race at full speed if he is not 100 percent."

Powell has said his main focus will be on the World Championships in
Osaka this summer, and he would race a light schedule leading up to
the year's main competition.

Although the Jamaica International Invitational is two weeks away,
Doyle said, "There is a big possibility that he will miss that as
well".

Doyle said Powell "is still training, but we are just going play it
day by day. We just want to play it safe."

Powell withdraws from Mt SAC

16 April 2007




My knee has been a bit tender in training

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Zandberg takes honours



WALNUT, California — Asafa Powell, the 100m world record-holder from
Jamaica, withdrew from from the 4x100m relay at the Mt. SAC Relays
Sunday to protect a sore right knee.


"I'm sad, but it was a little too cold for me," Powell told the crowd
at Hilmer Lodge Stadium on the campus of Mount San Antonio College,
east of Los Angeles.


"Although my knee has been a bit tender in training, I felt confident
I would be able to run today."


Powell, 24, said his decision was just a precaution, and he didn't
expect his preparations for the athletics world championships in
Osaka in August to be disrupted.


Powell, who equalled his world record of 9.77sec twice last season,
was the meeting's marquee name. He is next slated to run on April 28
at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.


Chris Williams flew the flag for Jamaica with a victory in the men's
100m in 10.12sec.


And Jamaican Melaine Walker won the women's 400m hurdles in 55.99sec,
fastest time of the young 2007 season. Shauna Smith of the United
States was second in 56.55.


American Joanna Hayes, who won the 100m hurdles gold at the 2004
Olympics, was third in 56.56.


Athens Olympic long jump gold medallist Dwight Phillips easily won
his signature event with a jump of 8.15m, and said his goal this year
is to capture a third world title in the discipline.


Allyson Felix, the 2004 Olympic 200m silver medallist and 2005 200m
world champion, won the women's 400m in 51.74sec.


China's Gao ShuYing won the women's pole vault with an Asian record
of 4.55m.


"It's a real surprise," said Gao, who was feeling the effects of a
cold. "I just wanted to make a normal jump."


AFP

Powell targets maiden world title
POSTED: 1617 GMT (0017 HKT), April 16, 2007
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WALNUT, California (Reuters) -- A maiden world title rather than
another world record is Asafa Powell's priority this year, according
to the Jamaican sprinter's manager.

Powell, who twice equaled his 100 meters world record of 9.77 seconds
last season, has set his sights on claiming gold at the world
championships in Osaka, Japan.

"It's pretty undeniable right now he's the top sprinter in the
world," Paul Doyle told Reuters after Powell pulled out of his first
race of the year on Sunday because of a knee injury.

"But not having a world championship medal or an Olympic medal makes
him extra hungry. Osaka is definitely his number one goal of the year
but, in addition to that, he just wants to continue doing what he was
doing last year and that's win every race.

"No times as a target. If the world record comes, the world record
comes and that's great. But he really just wants to win every race
that he lines up for in 2007."

Powell, who set the 100 world record in Athens in 2005, was named
IAAF male athlete of the year and Track & Field News magazine's male
athlete of the year for 2006. He tied his record at Gateshead,
England in June and equaled it again in Zurich in a million-dollar
season in which the Jamaican ran under 10 seconds a record 12 times.

Powell, 24, will head to Osaka for the August 25-September 2 world
championships undisputed as the number one men's sprinter, even
though he has never won a world or Olympic medal.

His build-up to Japan is being carefully planned, although the next
few weeks are a little tentative following his withdrawal from the
men's 4 x 100 meters relay at the Hitler Lodge Stadium on Sunday.

Schedule
"We are still working on his schedule," Doyle said. "The plan is for
him to do the Penn Relays in two weeks' time and then, hopefully, we
will be opening up in Kingston, Jamaica on the fifth of May.

"From there, the only one we have definitely figured out is Eugene,
Oregon for the Prefrontal Classic. And then, hopefully, we will come
to a deal with Oslo too. Those are the events we are targeting right
up to the Jamaican championships."

Doyle said Powell would race no more than five times after the
Jamaican championships in his lead-in to Osaka.

"We will probably end up doing just four races with the last one most
likely being Stockholm on the seventh of August which is still a few
weeks away from the worlds," he added. "We will probably get to Japan
on the 1st of August, two weeks before."

Powell's European schedule would also be tweaked, Doyle said. "We are
not going to do exclusively the Golden Leagues this year," he
added. "We are also considering a lot of the super grand prix meets
and maybe even some small meets."

Powell to start overseas campaign with relay races
Saturday March 17, 2007

OKLAHOMA, USA: Jamaican 100-metres World record holder Asafa Powell,
is set to compete at two relay meetings in the United States in
April.




Powell, who opened his season with two impressive sub-48 seconds 400m
performances on home soil earlier this year, will compete as part of
the Maximizing Velocity and Power (MVP) track and field club team at
the 49th Mount SAC Relays in San Antonio, on April 15, then at the
113th Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania two weeks later.

The 24-year-old record holder at 9.77, will be joined by fellow
Jamaicans Michael Frater, the 2005 World Championships 100m silver
medallist from Helsinki, and Ainsley Waugh.

Trinidad & Tobago's world junior record holder Darrel Brown, who
surprisingly win a silver medal in the 100m at the 2003 world
championships, completes the team, which is currently training in
Kingston, Jamaica.

In 2005 Powell was a member of the MVP side that finished behind
Maurice Greene's HSInternational side and meet director Scott Davis
is delighted to have him back at the relay carnival.

"For us to get an athlete like Asafa Powell in our meet is huge,"
Davis said. "We're a junior college. We have no money. We have to
rely on the goodwill of the agents."

Powell will be making his third appearance at the Penn Relays, after
winning the 100m in 10.10 last year and running and being part of the
Jamaican 4x100 team that finished second to a US team in 2004.

Earlier this year at the Gibson Relays at the National Stadium in
Kingston, the MVP team failed to finish after Brown failed to compete
the final exchange with Waugh on the anchor leg.

Meanwhile, it is also understood that the MVP camp will also field a
women's team in the relays. The team will be led by Commonwealth
Games 200m gold medallist Sherone Simpson, who dominated the short
sprints during the 2006 outdoor campaign.

--- In asafapowell@yahoogroups.com, "lando4lyphe" <lando4lyphe@...>
wrote:
>
> i would love to see safa wip is ass
>
Gatlin is training in Kansas City with couple of other pro sprinters,
Mark Jelks, Faulk guy, Rae Edwards and someothers.  Probably, he
training since he know he gonna get perhaps only a 2 year ban.

At first, when I got to Ft. Bening, Georgia and Alabama, I was nearly
catatonic; the stress was overbearing my psyche and my nervous
system. However, since at least at the Ft. Bening, they either did
not allow it or my research 2 of 2 `adversaries' did not get to me
(they do not have to allow a thing: there are soldiers who follow
secondary chains of command: biomedical research block ops of the so—
called Sandia Labs is one of them; majority of the medical staff does
look the other way because they are afraid of transfer. I do not call
them `oppressors,' since myself, I am a research subject / member of
the Psi Ops Black Op of the so-called Sandia Labs; I do receive
telepathic messages/instructions from them how to peacefully sabotage
and peacefully impede the research run by the Biomedical Black Op
while my more able brothers and sisters try to defeat them). Either
way: not even Mr. Ed Baginski using his relative, Maureen Baginski, a
Vice—Director in FBI (heads the anti—terrorist effort in counter—
intelligence), and his cousin, Honorable Anthony Mineo (known to the
Italian—Americans in New Jersey as the Mafia Boss) who is one of the
local CEO's of the Group 4 Folck Wackenhut (he is visited on the
weekly basis by another FBI agent at the headquarters of the Group 4
Folck Wackenhut at 25 Commerce Drive) could persuade the persons
representing both groups running research on me to end it. The
meeting took place in January, 2003, at the Traffic Division: Mr. Ed
BAGINSKI, LT, used deception to get the entire Traffic and Violations
Divisions and myself, included, to be witnesses of this conversation.
He did try to plea my case, by saying that I am going to fail, and
that any `apologies' will be most likely impossible, and even if
possible extremely difficult. He told his local higher ups that he
was not going to put hand cuffs on me or fire me "no matter what" as
long as they against his explicit objection continued to run either
or both forms of research on me.
Later on, a City Council member's relative (niece, I do guess) needed
a job, and my situation was getting worse: I did quit after being
advised by SGT. GOSS that I was going to fail no matter what. I quit.
90—fifty days later, after she quit or they let go off of her after
the probate period, they did call me to get back to work. I did not
return this call. In spite of that in December, 2004, the cops and
other employees of the Elizabeth Police Department (such as Parking
Violation Officers like I) got in trouble for shooting life ammo at
windows of random houses, if I did return, I probably would have been
able to cash on some of the money trains. Ed has everyone's asses
covered because his "Big Sis" is a "hot shot" in FBI. If I did
wrongly connect the Elizabeth, NJ, Police Department with both forms
of research, I would be loaded with money by now.
Instead, I did try to find a job where they would not find me: I did
not.
I decided to run away into the military: after I reached Ft. Bening
in a catatonic—like stress exertion, I did start very slowly coming
down: becomming a little less tense every day. The stress of the
Basic Training and AIT was less to me than the stress of the research
(both forms).
However, after I got to Hohenfels, Bavaria, Germany, it all started
again. I knew that I was just to be a lab rat, and you cannot be
both: you can be only one thing at once: either a lab rat or an
Infantryman. Someone chose for me: I was to be a lab rat. This is why
I am awaiting a discharge based on personality disorder (since, it is
not mental illness; I am still responsible for my actions, and
myself). My simple human decency does not allow me to slack off. I
have still improved my APFT score: when I came here, on the
diagnostic, I did fail push ups by 1 (69%), on the last diagnostic, I
did get better (74%), my sit ups did improve from 54 at most to 64,
and my run time did improve from well above 14:30 to 13:54, and I am
33. When I came to Hohenfels, at the very best, I was able to do 1—
one chin—up, now at best I can do 9—nine correct chin—ups. My
physical ability has increased greatly. My confidence in my abilities
as a soldier has increased moderately, but in a significant way.
Although, the catatonic—like stress exertion did not come back, as of
yet, I have become, in many instances, tense again. The only factor
that helps me is praying – it does calm me down in spite of both
forms of research.
If not for the research, I could probably feel and be relaxed twice
as many times as I am at present. However, I know that both forms of
research are paramount and the completion of both forms of research
does take precedence above my personal health, my family's interest,
and above the US Army's need to train and maintain soldiers: Research
is and always will be paramount to everything else. Most especially
that I am very replaceable, and because over the last couple years,
the Recruiting Centers have produced surplus of new soldiers.

Sincerely, Robert Kolakowski husband of Annie M. Lehnhnhardt—
Kolakowksi nee DeVone, mother of Tatiyanna Ebonet Lehnhardt (who has
been reported as missing a couple weeks ago; she is 21, but she needs
a personal handler; due to research run on me her mental illness,
Bipolar I, got aggravated, and since a couple moths, she started to
smoke pot and do drugs; moreover, her latest therapy added 20,000.00
US dollars to our debt – after her mother's, my wife's, Insurance
rejected the insurance claim, since she quit college lying to us that
she did not: as her mother's husband I am co—responsible for the
debt. Moreover, I would love to find her; I do doubt that my Wife or
the local cops will be able to).
I was born on 28DEC73 in Bialystok, POLAND.
I am son of Stanislaw (and Eugenia) Kolakowski (Kolakowska).

in the 400m today at the UWI Invitational in Kingston.

He ran a time of 47.11 seconds.

He is getting stronger. Great background strength training for the
outdoor season. Watch out.

i would love to see safa wip is ass

--- In asafapowell@yahoogroups.com, "blakenigel" <blakenigel@...> wrote:
>
> No! Justin is so history.
>
> he wouldnt dere
>
> --- In asafapowell@yahoogroups.com, Dan M <yashington@> wrote:
> >
> > Is Gatlin even training anymore?  I'm sure that 8 year ban
> demoralized  him pretty bad.  I doubt he'll ever race again.
> >
> >
> >
> > strydex2004 <strydex2004@>
> wrote:                                  Would you still want to see
> a clash with Justin Gatlin and Safa
> >  regardless of his ban from the track. Would you organize it and
> where
> >  and under what circumstances would it be?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Bored stiff? Loosen up...
> > Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
> >
>

No! Justin is so history.



--- In asafapowell@yahoogroups.com, Dan M <yashington@...> wrote:
>
> Is Gatlin even training anymore?  I'm sure that 8 year ban
demoralized  him pretty bad.  I doubt he'll ever race again.
>
>
>
> strydex2004 <strydex2004@...>
wrote:                                  Would you still want to see
a clash with Justin Gatlin and Safa
>  regardless of his ban from the track. Would you organize it and
where
>  and under what circumstances would it be?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Bored stiff? Loosen up...
> Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
>

Would you still want to see a clash with Justin Gatlin and Safa
regardless of his ban from the track. Would you organize it and where
and under what circumstances would it be?