Usain Bolt hammers out Beijing double gold warning

ATHENS (AFP) — Jamaica's Usain Bolt, the 100m world record holder, on Sunday ran the sixth fastest 200m of all time at the Grand Prix meeting here to increase the pressure on his Beijing Olympics sprint rivals.

Bolt clocked 19.67sec to improve on his year's best performance of 19.83 set four weeks ago in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.

The 21-year-old set the new 100m world record of 9.72sec in New York in May and his form on Sunday showed that he is poised to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic 100m-200m double.

His run here in the 2004 Olympic stadium came despite an unfavourable wind.

However, he is keen to dampen expectations that he is likely to smash Michael Johnson's world record of 19.32sec which was set at the 1996 Olympics.

"That's ...