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Powell injures hamstring at Japan meetPublished by
Jamaica's Asafa Powell injured his left hamstring during the men's 200m at the Super Track and Field Meet in Yokohama. Powell, who holds the world record of 9.74 seconds in the 100m, pulled up coming off the turn on a wet track at Nissan Stadium. "It's a strain of some sort," said Powell's manager Paul Doyle. "He felt a pain in his upper hamstring and then it moved to the middle of the hamstring which would indicate there is some sore of muscle tear." Powell finished third in the 100m last month at the world athletics championships in Osaka, Japan. Powell won the 200m two days ago at the Golden Grand Prix in Shanghai and Doyle said that might have been a factor in the injury. "He ran the 200m in Shanghai and that might have influenced what happened here," said Doyle. Doyle said the injury could take up to three weeks to heal but that Powell, who was running in his last race of the season, was planning to be off for about a month anyway.
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