Asafa Powell out with knee tendinitis
Posted Thursday, 3 May, 2007
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- World 100-meter record holder Asafa Powell could be out of competition for several weeks because of knee tendinitis.
"To put a time frame on it, it's very difficult," Powell's manager Paul Doyle said Wednesday. "It could be in a matter of a week, or it could take five weeks."
Powell didn't race for Jamaica's sprint relay team at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia last weekend and is unlikely to run at the Jamaica International Invitational in Kingston on Saturday.
Doyle said Powell is training, but not at full speed.
Powell set the world record of 9.77 seconds in June 2005. The Jamaican has matched that time twice, while Justin Gatlin of the United States did it once.
Gatlin, however, faces a suspension of up to eight years following a positive doping test for testosterone and other steroids at the Kansas Relays last April. His appeal is pending.
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