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Athletics:Justin Gatlin beat Powell in Diamond League

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World indoor champion Justin Gatlin staked his claim as a competitor for the Olympic 100m with victory in Doha’s Diamond League meeting in 9.87 seconds .The American renovate Asafa Powell in the final 30m to edge out the Jamaican by one hundredth of a second. Olympic champion Usain Bolt opened his 2012 battle with a run of 9.82 seconds in Kingston on 5 May. Gatlin, who won 100m gold at Athens 2004, is eligible for London 2012 after serving a four-year doping ban.

His victory at the Qatar Sports Club marked a return to the venue where he set a new world record in 2006, a mark then wiped from the record books after testing positive for testosterone. The 30-year-old made his comeback to athletics in 2010 and won 60m gold ahead of Great Britain’s Dwain Chambers at the Indoor World Championships in Istanbul in March. Whether Gatlin gets a chance to battle for a medal at the Olympic Stadium in August is reliant on his performance in the United States trials in Portland which begin on 21 June.

Regardless of his presence, a cast of convincing pretenders to Bolt’s crown have made their case. With Commonwealth champion Lerone Clarke concluding third behind Gatlin and Powell in 9.99 seconds, six men have run under 10 seconds already this season. American Walter Dix, who won bronze in both the 100m and 200m behind Bolt at the Beijing Games, won the event’s 200m in 20.02 seconds. In a field packed with quality, American three-time world champion Allyson Felix trumped the challenge of her Jamaican rivals to win the women’s 100m in 10.91 seconds.

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Olympic 2012: Jessica Ennis faces strong task

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Steve Backley believes Jessica Ennis dreams of winning London 2012 gold are out of her hands, although backing the former world champion to overcome her javelin frailties this summer. Jessica, the top poster girl of this summer’s Games, has surrender two world titles in less than a year, losing to heptathlete Tatyana Chernova at last year’s World Championships.

Jessica has insist she will not press the panic button and has a chance to avenge her two rivals at next month’s IAAF Hypo-Meeting heptathlon in Gotzis, where she bids for a hat-trick of consecutive titles, with Chernova 251 points adrift last year. However, with the former world youth and less important winner and Olympic bronze medalist Chernova, 24, seemingly past her troubles of stringing together two solid days and supremacy Olympic champion Dobrynska apparently back to her best; the complexity of topping the London 2012 podium has become clearer than ever.

Ennis confront is not going to be Jess. Whether Jess can take gold or not is out of her hands I believe,said Backley.She is a hard to consider athlete, she delivers under pressure, she knows how to fight, and we saw in Daegu that she puts up a mean fight when things are not going her way.But the difficulty for her is that you have got a young star like Tatyana Chernova and the knowledgeable Nataliya Dobrynska,who we saw in the indoors is always good in Olympic year.

Jessica, 26, defeated Chernova on a head-to-head basis at the 2011 World contest winning five out of seven events but her best javelin throw of 39.95 meters was exactly 13 meters shy of Chernova, costing her 251 points.It ultimately accounted for her loss with a final 149 point shortage with the Russian able to cross the line third and behind winner Ennis in the final 800m event to secure victory.

Yet former javelin world record holder Backley believes it was a vital knowledge for Ennis to go through, and one that could guide her back to golden glory in four months time after some significant fine-tuning.With javelin, you need both the usual talent and the enthusiasm to work hard on it, he added.

Jess has got both, but it is not her most satisfied event and she does it very much by being taught; it is not a flair. So it is a tackle and it needs a bit of work.But I have no doubt that is what she has been doing this winter within the hands of her trainer Mick Hill. He will be teaching and coaching her, and positively it stands up under pressure.