Wind has not extinguished Greene's
record ambitions
Undeterred by his failed record attempt in
Melbourne on Wednesday during the inaugural Grand Prix II meet of
the 1998 season, America's young sprint star Maurice Greene is
still hopeful of setting a new world mark in Australia, where he
will compete in the Sydney track Classic on Saturday.
"There's no limit to how fast you can run or how far you can
go", Greene told reporters earlier today in Sydney.
"The time I have set for myself is 9.76 seconds. Hopefully I
will get that Saturday night." Greene's time on Wednesday
was 10.06, but this was run against a 1.6m/s headwind.
Also nursing record hopes for Saturday was 21-year old Kenyan distance runner Daniel Komen. Komen will be attacking his own world record mark of 7:58.61 over 2 miles and feels confident that he will be able to show the necessary form on Saturday. Komen failed in an attempt at Noureddine Morceli's mile record of 3:44.39 in Melbourne, managing only 3:53.63: "I made a few mistakes last night, but I think by Saturday I will have improved," he said. "I think I can break the record".
Meanwhile Australian Emma George has said that she will making an attempt to improve her own pole vault record from the 4.57 world record mark she set in Auckland last week.
Another highlight of Saturday's competition will be the women's 200m, where Aboriginal 400m world champion Cathy Freeman will be competing against Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (AUS) and US world 100m champion Marion Jones.
