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Friday, August 20, 2004

We can't forget the Olympic games...

Olympics – Men’s 100m, Final, Su Aug 22 – 10:50 pm EST (NBC)
Asafa Powell defeated reigning Olympic champion Maurice Greene over 100metres for the second time in seven days at the recent Zurich Golden Leaguemeeting. Powell had a fantastic start and narrowly held off the challengefrom his rival to win in 9.93 seconds. The reigning Olympic champion hadearlier lost to rising Jamaican star Powell in the London Super Grand Prixmeeting at Crystal Palace. The net result is that Powell is now our Evensfavourite to win next week’s Olympic 100 metre gold medal. However, itwould be foolish to write off the chances of reigning Olympic ChampionGreene, who was recording his 50th sub-10 second run in Zurich (9.94), andhad earlier in the season booked his place at Athens with a blistering 9.91in Sacramento. Greene’s time that day was the second fastest in the worldand his fourth in the IAAF top 10 list this year. Victory in Athens wouldgo a long way to confirming him as the G.O.A.T, a reference to the acronymtattooed on his arm which stands for Greatest Of All Time!