Sanchez brace P23 lift Gunners SPORTS 2424 Sunday, February 12, 2017 ‘All-Stars’ to Melbourne ight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt secured a classy winE for his All-Stars team with two impressive runs on the final night of the inaugural Nitro Athletics and declared the new format exactly what track and field needs. After restricting himself to a leg of the mixed 4x100m relay on each of the first two nights at Melbourne’s packed Lakeside Stadium, the world’s fastest man contested the 150m, winning second convincingly. slower Bolt was clearly fastest out of than the Jamaican Asafa Powell and Bolt All Stars celebrate the blocks and around the bend to world record of stretched the lead before handing after winning the quickly establish a lead of over 10 14.35 he set over the over to American Jeneba fit, just Nitro Athletics meet in metres mid-race, before easing up distance in Manchester Tarmoh. to let everyone Melbourne in the closing stages. in 2009. His world record Another Jamaican,win see me because it’s my last “This is the first time I’ve ever for 200m, also set in 2009 in Natasha Morrison, ran season.” been fit in February,” Bolt told Berlin, is 19.19 seconds. the final leg to secure And he predicted a bright future reporters. New Zealand’s Joseph Miller victory for the Bolt All for the Nitro format. mile, “I’m happy I got to run an finished strongly in 15.44 Stars and take them to the “It was brilliant. It was exciting, designed to individual event, I felt good, and I seconds with Confidence top of the points table on the it was different,” he said. provide non-stop have to try to stay injury free. Lawson of England third in night to claim the first Nitro “I knew that this is what track action over a two-hour “I’ve got a couple of months to 15.69. trophy ahead of Australia. and field needed. period, might still need tweaking. go (until the world championships) Some 45 minutes later, Bolt Bolt, who is expected to retire “I think the energy and vibe and “We know we have and I should be fine.” again ran the second leg of the from the sport at the end of the even people from Jamaica who improvements to do we will The 30-year-old Jamaican star mixed 4x100m relay, helping his year, said he wanted to run as watched it and everybody I talked definitely find different events and clocked All Stars take out the final event often as he could now. to said it was a lot of fun.” we got to keep trying to improve it a time of the night, as they had at the But he admitted the experimental along the way,” Bolt said. of 15.28 previous two Nitro meets last ‘My last season’ format involving traditional and “It’s less stress but a lot of fun seconds, Saturday and Thursday. “I’m going to try to do as many modified events, including mixed and that’s what we need in the less than a Bolt took the baton from fellow meets as possible as long as I stay gender relays and an elimination track world.” (AFP) Hon.Chairman Najeb Yacob Alhamer | Responsible Editor Mahmood AI Mahmood | Managing Editor Soman Baby | Managing Director P. Unnikrishnan | Adviser Med Jones Advt : Strategic Publicity & Advertising Co.W.L.L | Tel: 17270710, Fax17256470, Email: [email protected] | Newsroom: Tel: 17579911, Fax17250150, Email: [email protected] Printed and published by Al Ayam Publishing | Subscription & circulation: Tel: 38444698/17579877/Fax17250150, Email:[email protected] | Website: www.dt.bh.