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Against a backdrop of poverty and family tragedy, Asafa Powell has run the five quickest 100metres of all time. Can he redeem the ultimate event in athletics? Click here to see our gallery of Powell at home in Jamaica
Alex Bilmes
Observer Sport Monthly
Dawn breaks gently over the lawns of the University of Technology in Kingston, Jamaica, conjuring a rainbow to greet the new day. But the calm belies a gathering storm. In the distance, black clouds are menacing the foothills of the Blue Mountains, and the serenity of this winter morning is about to be shattered by a very big man in a very small vehicle.At the corner of St Kitts Close and Trinidad Avenue, coach Stephen Francis is endangering the suspension on a golf cart while barking instructions at a group of around 50 extravagantly muscled young men and women. When they are not standing around looking exhausted, the members of the MVP Track and Field Club are running extremely fast up and down a four-storey outdoor fire escape.
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Against a backdrop of poverty and family tragedy, Asafa Powell has run the five quickest 100metres of all time. Can he redeem the ultimate event in athletics? Click here to see our gallery of Powell at home in Jamaica
Alex Bilmes
Observer Sport Monthly
Dawn breaks gently over the lawns of the University of Technology in Kingston, Jamaica, conjuring a rainbow to greet the new day. But the calm belies a gathering storm. In the distance, black clouds are menacing the foothills of the Blue Mountains, and the serenity of this winter morning is about to be shattered by a very big man in a very small vehicle.At the corner of St Kitts Close and Trinidad Avenue, coach Stephen Francis is endangering the suspension on a golf cart while barking instructions at a group of around 50 extravagantly muscled young men and women. When they are not standing around looking exhausted, the members of the MVP Track and Field Club are running extremely fast up and down a four-storey outdoor fire escape.
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