Powell focused on victory in Oslo

Diamond League meeting
Venue: Oslo Date: Friday, 4 June
Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website (UK users only, full coverage may not be available on Freeview); coverage on BBC Radio 5 live

Powell cruises to Diamond League win

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Former world 100m record holder Asafa Powell says he is focusing on winning races and not breaking records at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo.

The 27-year-old, who has twice held the world 100m record, is in a rich vein of form heading into Friday's meeting.

"It's all about winning races," said Powell, who posted a world leading time of 9.83 seconds at last Thursday's IAAF Challenge meeting in Ostrava.

"Everything is possible, but I don't focus on records."

Powell, whose 100m personal best is 9.72secs, produced a stunning performance in heavy rain on a sodden track in Ostrava to suggest he could challenge the current world record of 9.58secs, which Usain Bolt ran to win last summer's World Championship title.

Powell came third in that race behind fellow Jamaican Bolt and American Tyson Gay.

606: DEBATE It'll be interesting to see what Powell brings this time. Hopefully we'll see a tidier start because the other aspects of his race are looking very good indeed paps83

Bolt will be absent from Oslo because of an inflamed Achilles tendon, which has also caused him to withdraw from the Diamond League meetings in Rome on 10 June and New York two days later.

Having clocked wind-assisted marks of 9.75 and 9.81secs at the inaugural Diamond League meeting in Doha three weeks ago, Powell says he is in the shape of his life.

"I was injury free this winter which meant I was able to strengthen parts of my body, which earlier couldn't take so much hard training," explained Powell, who has previously suffered from knee, calf and ankle problems.

Despite prioritising victory, Powell admitted he would like to break Ato Boldon's nine-year-old meeting record of 9.88secs.

"If the conditions are good, I will try and break it," he said.

Britain's Mark Lewis-Francis, now injury-free, will be competing in Oslo and hoping to lower his season's best of 10.21secs set at last month's Great City Games in Manchester.

Fellow Briton and Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu will be hoping to capitalise on the absence of injured American Sanya Richards-Ross to return to winning form in her 400m outing.

Other Britons competing include World Championship 400m hurdles finalist David Greene, pole vaulter Steve Lewis, 800m runner Michael Rimmer and Andy Baddeley, who is competing in the 'Dream Mile'.

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