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Bolt to make season's debut at Feb 14 Classics
Kayon Raynor
Thursday, January 15, 2009
LAST year's IAAF Male Athlete of the Year, Usain Bolt, who starred at last summer's Beijing Olympics with three gold medals, will be making his 2009 debut in exactly 30 days, according to his coach, Glen Mills.
"He's going to run his first race on February 14 at the Camperdown Classics, running the 400 metres, along with Ricardo Chambers and Yohan Blake," Mills told the Observer on Tuesday.
Bolt, who rewrote the sprinting chapter in the Olympic record books by posting 9.69secs and 19.30secs in the 100 and 200 metres before sharing in the 4x100 metres relay victory of 37.10 secs in Beijing, also opened his 2008 season by competing in the 400m.
"He's supposed to run another 400 at the UWI Invitational," Mills added. The UWI meet is scheduled for February 21 at the National Stadium.
Asked where Bolt will be running his first overseas race, Mills replied: "We haven't touched (thought about) that yet."
Meanwhile Mills, the 2008 North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) and the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) Coach of the Year, says Bolt's preparations is back on track after some early disruptions associated with his many social appearances on the local and international scene.
"Well, we took that into account... it did have some interruption but we have sort of settled down now to some constant training as we have nothing planned in the near future," the veteran coach added.
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