Olympics: Powell says Beijing, not Bolt, his main concern

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KINGSTON (AFP) — Asafa Powell insisted Monday that the Jamaican Athletics Championships are about qualifying for the Beijing Olympics, not a showdown with newly-minted 100m world record-holder Usain Bolt.

"I am not going there to put on any show, because you have Bolt who is running 9.7, and other guys running (good)," Powell said.

"I just want to make the team, that's all I want to do ... that's all I am going there to do, make the team," he said.

Bolt, who considers himself a 200m specialist, electrified the athletics world when he clocked 9.72sec on May 30 to eclipse Powell's previous 100m world record of 9.74.

While the two sprinters are expected to meet for the first time at the championships, which run Friday through Sunday at National Stadium,...