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Bolt and Gay close on 100 metres showdown.


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BERLIN: Usain Bolt Usain Bolt (born 21 August1986) is a Jamaican sprinter and current world junior and Jamaican record holder over 200 m. Early life
Bolt was born Trelawny, Jamaica) and educated at William Knibb High School.
 should finally meet Tyson Gay over 100 metres in the centerpiece of Sunday s second day of the world championships.

The world s top two sprinters have not raced this year and both triple Olympic gold medallist Bolt and double world champion Gay are predicting stunning times if the weather stays fine.

Bolt holds the world record of 9.69 seconds, which he set at the Beijing Olympics last year, and American Gay has the season s fastest time, 9.77 seconds.

Former world record holder Asafa Powell could also be in the mix after qualifying fastest from the second round.

Golds will also be up for grabs in three women s events, the heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon.
heptathlon

Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs.
, shot put and 20km walk.

Britain s Jessica Ennis holds the overnight lead in the heptathlon with New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.  Olympic and world champion Valerie Vili the shot put favourite.

Russian Olga Kaniskina will be favourite in the women s walk. She has won the last two global titles, winning the world championships in 2007 and the Olympics.

Muscat Muscat, Maskat, or Masqat (all: mŭs`kăt, mŭs`kət), city (1993 pop. 533,774), capital of Oman, SE Arabia, on the Gulf of Oman. It is flanked by rugged mountains.  Press and Publishing House SAOC SAOC Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
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