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24th August: The penultimate stage of the six meeting IAAF Golden
League 2006 takes place this coming Friday 25 August, at the 30th
Memorial Van Damme in the Stade Roi Baudouin, Brussels, Belgium
and all the important action will be shown live on Ten Sports.
Following on from last Friday’s meeting in Zürich, the
number of athletes in the hunt for the $1 million Jackpot has been
reduced to four athletes who have a chance of six victories with
two more still in line for a share of $500,000 jackpot for five
victories.
Asafa Powell (100m), Jeremy Wariner (400m), Sanya Richards (400m)
and Tirunesh Dibaba (5000m) all have four victories while Kenenisa
Bekele (5000m) and Irving Saladino (Long Jump) both have three going
in to Fridays meeting.
All eyes will again be on Powell who last weekend matched his 100m
world record of 9.77secs and who is confident he can go faster by
the end of the season.
"I’m just feeling very good," Powell said. "I
knew it was something special, I just didn’t know how fast
it was."
In the men’s 400m Wariner looks to be as dominant as Powell
in the 100m. The Texan has been winning his races this season by
over a second and this is against top quality fields.
Wariner’s training partner Sanya Richards also has the perfect
four victories to date in the women’s equivalent but knows
that this year’s revelation, 22-year-old Bulgarian Vanya Stambolova,
the recently-crowned European champion, will be looking to spoil
the party.
The final member of the quartet with four victories is Tirunesh
Dibaba. The Ethiopian put in a dominant performance in Zurich last
week but has compatriot Meseret Defar to contend with in Brussels
and Defar recently beat on way to claiming the African title.
The Brussels meeting always delivers a fantastic night of athletics
so Ten Sports viewers will be in for some great entertainment that
begins at 23-30 IST on Friday night.
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