Despite limited preparations Jamaica’s IAAF World Indoors 60m champion Veronica Campbell Brown says she is ready to do her best at this weekend’s World Indoors in Istanbul, Turkey.

Campbell Brown, who added the World Indoors gold to her glittering list of achievements when she won in a personal best 7.00 seconds two years ago in Doha, Qatar, has competed over the distance just once this season, placing second behind American Tiana Madison at a USA Indoors meeting in her college campus in Arkansas in February where she ran 7.08 seconds.

“Although there is much work to be done, I left there quite pleased with my performance,” she wrote in her IAAF online diary for March.

Campbell Brown, who won a 50m race in New York earlier, said: “I have committed myself to compete at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey and I am looking forward to going there and doing my best for my country.”

The two-time defending Olympic champion in the 200m had stayed away from the cozy confines of the indoor circuit for a number of years, but says she is excited by the opportunity, “despite this being my second visit to a World Indoor Championships, having competed in Doha, Qatar, I am still excited about competing at an indoor championships as I like the closeness to the fans and that creates an atmosphere so intimate it reminds me of outdoor venues like Zurich and Ostrava”.

Despite her preparation for the Indoors in Turkey, she had time to watch “bits of the Gibson Relays” via the Internet she said, and gushed about the fervour of the Jamaican track and field fans. “There is no other crowd that appreciates our sport like the Jamaican fans, absolutely none!” she wrote.

A fan of other sports outside of track and field, Campbell Brown wrote in her diary that she took time out to watch the newest NBA sensation, New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, who has been setting the league on fire in the last month or so.