(Sporting Alert) — American sprinter Walter Dix believes he only needs a good start to take down Usain Bolt and company at next month’s IAAF World Championships.
Dix, the Olympic sprint double bronze medalist, was firing back at comments suggesting that Bolt, Asafa Powell and their Jamaican teammates would dominate the sprints without the challenge of American Tyson Gay, who will miss the championships because of injuries.
“If I can just come out of the blocks next to him (Bolt), if I can be with him or a step ahead at 40 meters, I think it is a wrap,” said Dix, who was a distant second to Bolt at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
“I don’t see myself losing to him.”
Meanwhile, Powell has been dominating this season and has a seasonal and world leading best of 9.78 seconds.
However, Dix always backs his top end speed to chase down even the rocketing-starting former world record holder – should it turned out that he is the man to beat on the day.
He said: “I ran down Asafa a couple of times (in races) and I think Bolt and I have about the same top-end speed
“… I don’t think he is going to pull away from me too much.”
Dix has impressive personal bests of 9.88secs and 19.69secs for 100m and 200m – but will have to improve those times significantly if he truly wants to challenge Bolt – who holds the world records of 9.58 and 19.19 in those events.
“When I saw 9.5. and 9.6 (for Bolt over 100m), I believed I could run 9.7 or 9.6,” he said and added, “and I always thought I was going to run 19.3 (in the 200).”
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