Nickiesha Wilson, Simone Facey, Steve Mullings and Adrian Findlay have made clear their intentions of securing a ticket to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games after creditable performances at the Texas and Florida Relays in the United States over the weekend.

WILSON... posted a personal best 12.85 seconds to clinch the university/college 100m hurdles

Wilson posted a personal best 12.85 seconds to clinch the university/college 100m hurdles at the 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin.

Fourth-place finisher in the 400m hurdles final at last year's World Championships in Osaka, Japan, the 21-year-old Wilson is seeking to become the fourth Jamaican to win an Olympic medal in these events.

Wilson finished third at the National Championships last year, but has since made rapid strides to improve her standard in the one-lap barrier event. She has lowered her time from 56.77 seconds in 2006 to 53.97 seconds last year, becoming the third fastest Jamaican woman in the event.

Only Olympic champion Deon Hemmings (52.82sec) and two-time Commonwealth Games medallist Debbie-Ann Parris (53.88) have run faster than the Alpha Academy past student.

In the 100m invitational, comeback kid Simone Facey of Texas A&M registered a personal best 11.11 seconds to finish third. The 2002 World Junior Championships silver medallist trailed Trinidad & Tobago Kelly-Ann Baptiste, who won in a personal best and year-leading 11.06 seconds and United States' 2006 junior champion Alexandria Anderson, who ran her personal best of 11.10 seconds.

At the Pepsi Florida Relays in Gainesville, Mullings clocked 10.19 seconds (2.0m/s) to finish third overall in the men's 100m. The 25-year-old Mullings, who finished four at the National Championships last year, ran the same time as American Willie Perry who was given second place.

Xavier Carter of the USA, one of three fastest men ever in the 200m when he posted an astounding 19.63 seconds two years ago in Lausanne, Switzerland, won in 10.15 seconds.

In the 400m hurdles Findlay ran 49.42 seconds for second place, after USA's LaRon Bennett, who won in 49.39 seconds.

Jamaica have won 42 medals in track and field at the Olympic Games, beginning in 1948 with Arthur Wint and Herb McKenley. Wint and McKenley were gold and silver in the 400m respectively, with Wint grabbing a silver in the 800m.

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