He has not stepped on the athletics tracks in competition for almost two years: the American sprinter Christian Coleman will make his return today, after his suspension for violations of the anti-doping rules, at the Millrose Games in New York, for a 60 m indoors raised against top names in the discipline. Reigning world champion in the 100m (2019), world record holder in the 60m (6 sec 34 in 2018), Coleman was advancing as a potential boss of the sprint after the Usain Bolt era, but three breaches of obligations anti-doping localization, synonymous with two years of suspension, then reduced to 18 months, had brutally interrupted his career.
Six months before the Worlds in Eugene (Oregon), the very tough field of the 114th Millrose Games, one of the oldest athletics competitions, will allow Coleman (25) to gauge himself, he who redisplays great ambitions and n Don’t hesitate to say that Usain Bolt’s world record over 100m (9 sec 58) is not out of reach. Winner last year at the Armory Track in Manhattan, his compatriot Ronnie Baker will defend his title against serious competitors: in addition to Coleman, deprived of the Olympic Games last summer, another revengeful, Trayvon Bromell, the fastest man in 2021 (9 sec 77 over 100 m), but eliminated in the semi-finals of the Olympics, will be at the start. Just like Noah Lyles, bronze medalist over 200m in Tokyo, and Marvin Bracy (9 sec 85 over 100m in 2021).
Source: AFP
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He has not stepped on the athletics tracks in competition for almost two years: the American sprinter Christian Coleman will make his return today, after his suspension for violations of the anti-doping rules, at the Millrose Games in New York, for a 60 m indoors raised against top names in the discipline. Reigning world champion in the 100m (2019), record holder in the…
