Sport 29-08-2000 Athletics: Dwain Chambers Lifts Brit Olympic Hopes who: 100 metres athlete Dwain Chambers what: Beats Maurice Greene at Norwich Union Classic where: GATESHEAD when: Yesterday snippet: "Dwain Chambers gave Britain`s Olympic team the perfect send-off yesterday," reports Tom Knight in The Telegraph, "with an astonishing 100 metres victory over Maurice Greene in the Norwich Union Classic in Gateshead. He will go to Sydney convinced he can win the gold medal." On a rainy Gateshead afternoon, 22 year-old World Championship bronze medalist Chambers beat the fastest man in the world in 10.11secs and now hopes to replicate the feat in Sydney next month. "Two months after he considered aborting his season because of a depressing sequence of results - three last places in four races - Chambers rediscovered the form that took him on to the podium with Greene at the world championships in Seville last year," says David Powell, Athletics Correspondent to The Times. "I will go to Sydney knowing I can win," he says in Express Sport Live. "Maurice has been the world champion for three years, perhaps it`s time someone else took the 100m mantle. Maurice can hit back yet I am running better technically than ever." [... more]

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