Coleman healthy christian in the honor of 100m starry men

Watch sprinters, Ronnie Baker and Noah Lyles, have not discouraged or intimidated any of the best players on the Diamond League circuit.

Christian Coleman was rather motivated by the success of his team. "I was preparing myself emotionally to know when I would come back, I would be able to compete," said the 22-year-old on the phone from Rabat, Morocco. where he will return from an absence of six weeks to run the men's 100 meters Friday at 4:30 pm ET. "I know how fast and competitive they are and they will run at a high level."

"I know my time will come, so I have to stay focused on the goal."

Friday's athletics meets Wounded in early May

Coleman, who had never had any problems with the hamstrings, confirmed that he was healthy at 100 % and said that Friday's race will be the first this season, he had a "full confidence" in his right leg.

Coleman was hamstring injured at the beginning of May and was forced to withdraw from the Shanghai Diamond League on May 12. Unless full health and with little training, to finish second at Baker (9.78 seconds dry) in 9.84.

Five days later, Blake won the Golden Gala in Rome in a 9.93 then world leader while Coleman was fourth in 10.06, but aggravated the injury and missed the Diamond Leag sequel meeting in Oslo, Stockholm , Paris and Lausanne, Switzerland.

Despite the impressive results of Coleman, Donovan Bailey does not think he has ridden a three-phase race this season after setting a world record of 6.34 seconds. mid-February at the US National Indoor Championships. The CBC Sports badyst believes that Coleman needs to increase his strength to reach his speed threshold higher in the 100 than it was this season and improve his physical strength to maintain his composure over the last 20 meters. He has the most work to do on a technical level and Christian had problems when he reached the top speed on the last 30 meters, "said Bailey about the 100m silver medalist. "One of the things you need to do in the middle of a race is to breathe, when you breathe, it allows your diaphragm to stay up."

"From a technical point of view, breathe, relax, pump your shoulders, be a frantic race between him, Noah Lyles and Ronnie Baker [in Rabat]."

Coleman remembered being in the "best form" of his life during the indoor season and is confident to achieve more this summer.

"You always fight for victory and that will push you to great heights," he says, "you can worry about technique, form, and time."

"I improved overall as an athlete, in terms of weight room, my time in practice, my core strength," he said.

Baker ran 6.44 inside worlds in March and Bailey noted his ability to stay close to Coleman during an indoor race helped build his confidence for the season in full air.

"He understood what Christian Hythm is and probably a bunch of Christian's strengths and weaknesses, and he's betting on his strength against Christian's weakness."

At the Open Air Championships USATF June 20, Lyles, 20, won 9.88. second in 9.90 and Michael Rodgers, the fourth American in Friday's nine-man field, scored 9.89 in the first round.

"Noah Lyles is the guy I look at," said Bailey. "He's not going to panic and he's proved it in a lot of races, and that's what makes a champion."

Baker, 24, dropped to 9.88 for a PB at Reunion's Paris on June 30 for his third Diamond League win and points in the standings with 16 points, two more than Jimmy Vicaut of France. Ujah won last year in Rabat with a record time of 9.98 while Prescod won the 100 this season at the Diamond League Shanghai and the recent British championships.

Here The Canadians compete in Rabat:

Shawn Barber, men's pole vault (2:30 pm ET): Barber successfully defended his Canadian title last weekend in Ottawa, improving his competition record in crossing 5.75 meters. The 24-year-old jumped 5.84 at the Diamond League in Paris on June 30, representing Toronto's best performance since his 5.92 at Texas Relays on March 31.

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