Jamaica/Racers, from left, Usain Bolt, Marvin Anderson, Yohan Blake and Mario Forsythe celebrate on the podium after winning the 4x100 relay at the Penn Relays in April 2010.Usain Bolt and his Racers Track Club teammates will be chasing the world 4x100m record at the Samsung Diamond League in Zurich on 19 August.
Information reaching trackalerts.com is that a Jamaican 4x100m team of Bolt, Yohan Blake, Mario Forsythe and Marvin Anderson has been confirmed to face-off with seven other teams, including the USA at the meet.
"Jamaica with four Racers guys have been confirmed for the relay, and they promised they will be going after the world record," said a source close to the organizing committee.
At the 2010 Penn Relays in April, Bolt's team fell short of Jamaica's world record of 37.10, set by the quartet of Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Bolt and Asafa Powell at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Racers ran 37.90secs to set a new Penn Relays time for the event –improving the previous mark of 37.92 set by the Americans in 2009.
Bolt's anchor leg run (8.79) at Penn Relays was just .09seconds under the blistering 8.70secs Powell ran on the anchor leg of the victorious Jamaican Olympic 4×100-metre relay team in Beijing.
And since then, Forsythe has dropped his personal best to 10.06, while Blake, who ran a stunning 19.78 seconds in Monaco on Thursday, has been consistently in the 9.9 region.
Not much has been seen of Anderson, who has been affected by injuries since early this season.
By Anthony Foster, trackalerts.com
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Looking at this outside the box.. this overall is great for Jamaica. Last year the JAAA and Jamaicans were standing on pins and needle due to MVP actions...worrying if Asafa is going to run and this and that. Next year I bet every athlete will be in a straight line and aligned with the team interest or their @ss will be on the outside looking in.
Again nothing is impossible. Bolt and Blake is definately faster than at Penn Relays and I ssume that at this time of the year the other two might be in better form too. Add that with more time to practice and improve on the baton changing and who knows. I wouldn't be shocked but I would definately be surprise if the break the world record..
you need to recheck the real stats homes, Mario is not as fast as you want him to be. Until he proves he' can consistenly run below 10.10 then I'll say he's a viable candidate for a team capable of breaking the world record. Currently he's not.
Mario and Marvin, I think will have to run sub-10 for them to get the record.
============================================================================================================100M Wind Athlete PB
9.82 0.6 Asafa Powell 9.82 0.5 Usain Bolt
9.96 0.5 Yohan Blake
10.08 1.7 Michael Frater
10.09 -0.9 Nesta Carter
10.09 0.8 Mario Forsythe Y1
10.10 1.2 Lerone Clarke
10.11 1.7 Oshane Bailey Y
10.12 0.8 Steve Mullings
10.13 0.1 Kimmari Roach Y
10.16 -0.9 Dexter Lee (Jr) Y 1
10.22 0.5 Ainsley Waugh
10.26 1.3 Marvin Anderson
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