It's over. World top-class 100-metre men's sprinting came to an end yesterday at the World Athletics Final in Monaco's Stade Louis II Stadium with Jamaica's Asafa Powell proclaiming: "I am the best."

ATHENS - Tonique Williams-Darling has claimed the Bahamas' first individual athletics gold by blasting to the women's 400m title.

Veronica Campbell of Jamaica won the 200 metre gold medal to add to her bronze in the 100 metre, beating Felix Allyson of the United States and Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas.

The future of track and field in the Caribbean is a very exciting prospect. This optimistic view of the sport in the region was expressed by Trinidad and Tobago's quadruple Olympic medallist, Ato Boldon, a day after he announced his retirement from track and field on Saturday.

Twelve years ago, in Barcelona, Spain, Ato Boldon exited the Olympic Games men's 100 metres event in the opening round. Yesterday, the 30-year-old sprinter announced his retirement from track and field, after suffering the same fate, at the Olympic Stadium, here in Athens, Greece.

Jamaica's Asafa Powell, a hot favourite for a medal in the men's 100 metres, ran his worst race of the 2004 Olympic Games last night to finish fifth in the final at the Athens Olympic Stadium.

Official results from the 200m Individual Medley are in from Athens, and George Bovell III from Trinidad & Tobago has won the bronze medal behind Michael Phelps in record time, and Ryan Lochte!

T&T?s George Bovell III is expected to lay it all out when he goes after the gold medal in his pet event, the 200 individual medley, at the 28th Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, today.

Jamaica's Asafa Powell has predicted that there could be a 100 metres world record in the blue riband event at the Athens Olympics.

Sprinter Ato Boldon has told BBC Radio Five Live he cannot be certain the Olympic men's 100m final will be clean of drug cheats.