Powell and Gay set up 100 meters final showdown
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OSAKA, Japan  - Jamaica's Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay set up an explosive 100 meters final showdown at the world championships after breezing through their semi-finals on Sunday.
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World record holder Asafa Powell made an impressive comeback from injury by winning the 100 meters in 9.90 seconds at a Golden League meeting on Friday.
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The preliminaries in the 100 meters were perhaps just a sample of what's to come Sunday, when a talented group of qualifiers &#151; including Americans Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and defending champion Maurice Greene &#151; will try to turn their competition into the fastest show at the Athens Games.
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Asafa Powell of Jamaica bettered his world record in the 100 meters Sunday, finishing in 9.74 seconds at the Rieti Grand Prix.
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Tyson Gay won the 200 meters in 19.68 seconds at the World Athletics Final on Sunday &#151; only two men have run faster times.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Jamaica's world record holder Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay cruised through their 100 meters heats at the world championships on Saturday.
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Britain's men's and women's relay teams qualify for their  4x100m medley finals.
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ATHENS : America&#39;s 100 metres sprint stars threw down the gauntlet at the Olympics but their Carribean rivals replied with a double salvo of their own to give the blue riband event an added edge.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - Jamaican sprinter Asafa   Powell is hoping the challenge of an in-form Tyson Gay can help   propel him to a 100 metres world record in Stuttgart on   Saturday.
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RIETI, Italy  - Asafa Powell showed he had recovered from his disappointing third place at the world championships by breaking his 100 meters world record with a time of 9.74 seconds on Sunday.
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Having already claimed gold in the 100-meters, anÃÂ emotionally drained Tyson Gay begins his quest to add a historic 200-meter world titleÃÂ to his rÃÂ©sumÃÂ©.
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French long jumper Salim Sdiri is speared by a javelin at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Rome, where Asafa Powell makes his comeback.
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Men's world 100 meters record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica wants to clock under 10 seconds in his 2007 debut on Tuesday after recovering from a knee injury in April.
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Michael Phelps, one more Olympic title  to the good, aims to hoist his gold medal tally to five when he  takes on fellow American Ian Crocker in the 100 meters  butterfly final Friday.
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Tyson Gay dominates the 200-meter final in a stunning 19.62, the second fastest in history behind Michael Johnson's 19.32 run in 1996.
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Australia&#39;s Jodie Henry armed herself with a world record while Michael Phelps targeted his fourth Olympic gold medal backed by a Games record in qualifying for Thursday&#39;s finals.
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World record holder Asafa Powell won the 100 meters Tuesday with the fastest sprint in the world this year.