Gatlin hoping Bolt is ready for the Beijing worlds
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AMERICAN Justin Gatlin has Usain Bolt fixed in his sights and said he hopes that the injured Jamaican sprint king will be healthy for next month’s world championships.
Gatlin, at 33, will head to the Beijing worlds as firm favorite in both the 100 and 200m, another victory in 9.75 seconds in the shorter event on Thursday extending his unbeaten streak to 26 races since August 2013.
Gatlin is concentrating on the mouth-watering thought of usurping king Bolt, who has dominated sprinting at the Olympics and world championships since his golden treble at the 2008 Beijing Games — bar one hiccup over 100m in the 2011 Daegu worlds.
“Hopefully Usain will be healthy and ready to go when the world championships come around and hopefully I’ll see him in the finals,” Gatlin said. “Usain’s a great opponent and I don’t think that he has to worry about anybody, he has to go out there and do what he does, and what he does best is go out there and win championships. So it’s on me to go out there and give him the best challenge possible.”
Of the current crop of sprinters, old heads are predominant, and in Lausanne it was two other 33-year-olds in the shape of Jamaican Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay, who both clocked 9.92sec.
“I don’t think it’s about beating somebody, it’s about beating everybody,” Gatlin said. “There’s going to be six other guys besides myself and Usain on the line jockeying for position,” he said.
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