Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt on Tuesday predicted he would reduce his own world 100m record to 9.54 seconds when the right opportunity comes.
Bolt clocked 9.69 seconds in last year's Beijing Olympic final despite celebrating his victory before he had crossed the finish line.
The 22-year-old Jamaican, who will race against compatriot Asafa Powell over 100m at the London Grand Prix on Friday, told a news conference his coach Glen Mills had told him he could run the 100 in 9.54.
"If the coach says so, he's always right," Bolt said,
'Running the curve was really hard for me' Bolt clocked 9.79 seconds at the Paris Golden League meeting last Friday despite a poor start and damp, chilly conditions.
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Only American double world champion Tyson Gay, who will run over 200m at the two-day meeting at Crystal Palace, has run faster this year with a time of 9.77sec in Rome.
Bolt said he had to do more work on his 200m before challenging Gay at the Berlin World Championships from August 15-23 after losing a month's training following a car accident earlier this year. He stepped on thorns when he climbed out of the car and needed a minor operation to his left foot.
"Running the curve was really hard for me," he said. "I couldn't do anything on the curve.
"I lost a month so my speed and endurance is really low.
"The World Championships are really important to me. It's going to be hard against Tyson."
Bolt, who also broke the world 200m record in Beijing and was a member of the Jamaican team that set a 4x100m world record, was asked how he coped with his new fame.
"There's not much downside but sometimes I want to be left alone to chill out. I just stay inside and play video games all day," he replied.
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This article was originally published on page 24 of Pretoria News on July 22, 2009
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