Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell, CDis a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres. He held the 100 metres world record between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Powell has consistently broken the 10-second barrier in competition, with his personal best of 9.72 s being the fifth fastest time in the history of the event. As of October 2012, Powell has broken the ten-second barrier legally more times than anyone else – 95 times...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth23 November 1982
CitySpanish Town, Jamaica
CountryJamaica
It's good to know that I can do it again for my country. It's a very, very good feeling. I am really very excited and I know people will also be excited in Jamaica.
Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.
People have been saying that there might be a curse stopping me from getting my first major title, but I have proven to the world that I can do it. This might sound a little shocking, but we were not really training for this.
I don't think anyone can really dominate. By running 9.77sec this year, I did something no one has ever done. A lot of people would like to have that world record and I'm sure that includes Justin Gatlin.
We will win (the final) anyway because today we got lane one and that was real hard and tomorrow we will get a better lane for sure, lane three and that will boost up our team more and we'll be fine.
I wanted Australia to really finish the race and give us a real good run so we could get a better time but it was unfortunate that the baton (for the Australians) fell.
Sometimes guys get on a roll,'' former 110-meter hurdles world-record holder and current agent Renaldo Nehemiah told me Wednesday.
That was my first major championships back in 2002 and I didn't get to perform as well as I wanted to because I was young and I was just coming up.
I was quite nervous out there. I haven't been on the (Melbourne) track for almost a year now, so I need the confidence. But I'm the world record holder and I had to prove that I am.
I was only following instructions, my coach told me to run the first 50m and then take it easy.
I still need some more days but I am not giving up the season because it is getting better day by day.
Three gold medals, that's a lot, yeah it's possible.
I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110 percent to make sure that I am up at the top.
I am quite confident in my ability. I'm sure I would have run real fast. I never doubt myself, so it would have been a good race out there.