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Athletes On High For Diamond League Meet In Shanghai

Top athletes expected to be competing with each other in the Diamond League meet holding in Shanghai this weekend are in high spirits as they … Continue reading Athletes On High For Diamond League Meet In Shanghai


Top athletes expected to be competing with each other in the Diamond League meet holding in Shanghai this weekend are in high spirits as they gear up to outdo one another.

America’s 110-metre hurdles world record holder, Aries Merritt, said that he would try his best to compete and hope not to fail his fans in Shanghai for the second leg of the 2013 Diamond League series on Saturday.

The Athlete who won gold in the event at last year’s London Olympics said he hoped that he would be at his best come Saturday after he just regained fitness  as he picked up an injury in the indoor season.

“Every time I’m doing a rep, whether it’s sprinting or jogging, anything that has to do with having the leg in front, I just put that leg in front from now on. So I practice when I’m running repeat one fifties, I just put my weaker leg in front to start and it’s just something I’ve just been doing. I’m also doing a series of drills that allows me to balance out both sides,” he said referring to his injured leg.

Meanwhile, Silver medallist in London 2012, Jason Richardson, who is a fellow American has taken up serious discussions with his trainer and coach, John Smith, to see what and how he can challenge Merritt’s world record time of 12.80 which was set in Brussels last September.

“John Smith and I actually had plenty of conversations about where we think the record could go and we’ve actually discussed that it could go further than 12.80. So our approach has actually stayed the same, which is to always have a foundation of change,” he said.

Olympic 100-metre champion in 2012, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, said that she looked forward to racing against Carmelita Jeter, who took silver in London, on Saturday.

Jamaica’s Fraser-Pryce proved to be the sprint queen of the track when she retained her Olympic 100-meters title in London last year.

Fraser-Pryce was little known when she stormed to gold in 2008, but followed up a year later by winning the world title in Berlin.