Ath: No shocks as 100m favourites coast into final

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2004
Ath: No shocks as 100m favourites coast into final

ASAFA POWELL of Jamaica has recorded the fastest time of the two Olympic 100 metre
semi-finals, winning his in 9.95 seconds.

But the men seen as his major rivals, SHAWN CRAWFORD and JUSTIN GATLIN of the US, have
filled first and second places in their semi-final.

CRAWFORD and his training partner GATLIN cantered through their race and eased up 20
metres from the line, both shouting at each other.

The other two to progress were GHANAIAN AZIZ ZAKARI and Barbados' OBADELE THOMPSON,
who took bronze in the 2000 Olympics.

POWELL bidding to become the first man from his country to win an Olympic sprint title
since DON QUARRIE who won the 200 metre in 1976, looked relaxed as he sauntered home in
his semi and handed out his fourth successive defeat of Olympic champion MAURICE GREENE.

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KEYWORD: OLY ATH 100 (ATHENS)

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