By Ben Efe
World sprint record holder, Usain Bolt said that his meeting with compatriot Asafa Powell in Friday’s Diamond League  produce another world record.

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Bolt and Powell are meeting for the first time this year and the triple Olympic champion from Beijing 2008 said that he is not taking chances with his second rival after American Tyson Gay. Bolt ran 9.82 seconds in Lausanne last week, equaling Powell’s 100 metres season’s best. It was Bolt’s first race after he suffered a strain earlier in the year.

“I definitely think it should be a faster time because the race is going to be more tense and we’re going to be more explosive. Bolt told a news conference on Tuesday, adding that the recent spell of hot weather in Europe was an advantage.

“Asafa is a tough opponent. You never know on the day, it’s all determined on the conditions, what mood you’re in and what your luck is on the day. But for me, I take it very seriously,” Bolt said.

Former record-holder Powell is the last man to beat Bolt, in July 2008 in Stockholm. “I don’t want to lose but if I lose all I have to do is go back to the drawing board and figure out what I did wrong and work on it,” said Bolt.

Bolt said that in championship years the two Jamaicans sought to avoid racing each at other meetings. In 2010, with no Olympic or world titles to be won, Bolt said he picked selected races to focus on his technique.