JAMAICA'S WORLD Junior 200m record holder, Usain Bolt, and American Wallace Spearmon will face-off next Saturday at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
The race between Bolt, who ran 20.08 this season, and Spearmon, the world leader with 20.06, is seen as a showdown between the two fastest men this year.
Bolt, 19, had the fastest time in the world (20.08) for 2006 until Spearmon, the 21-year-old 2005 World Champion-ships silver medalist and American indoor record-holder, bettered it in winning the Adidas Track Classic last Sunday in 20.06.
However, before that, Spearmon will face Jamaican Ainsley Waugh at Sunday's Prefontaine Classic, the US leg of the IAAF World Athletics Tour, in Eugene, Oregon.
BIG RACES
The big races of the meet, though, will be the men's 100m events where co-holders of the 100m world record, Jamaica's Asafa Powell and American Justin Gatlin, are down to face the starter.
However, they will run in separate races.
Michael Blackwood is set to line-up in a super 400m field which features five of the top 10 from the 2005 rankings including Tyler Christopher of Canada (second), Tyree Washington (sixth), Darold Williamson (eighth) and LaShawn Merritt (10).
Commonwealth Games and World Indoor silver medallist Kenia Sinclair will make her second attempt to beat Mozambique's Maria Mutola this year in the 800m. Americans Hazel Clark and Alice Schmidt and Canadian Diane Cummins are also in the field.
Brigitte Foster-Hylton will carry the Jamaica flag in the women's 100m hurdles where she is down to face 2003 world champion Perdita Felicien of Canada and 2005 Helsinki champion Michelle Perry.
