Brown, Ato lead TT relay gold hunt

WORLD youth 100-metres record holder and silver medallist Darrel Brown and his Trinidad and Tobago teammates Niconnor Alexander, Marc Burns and Ato Boldon will be aiming for a berth in tomorrow’s final of the 4x100m relay at the 9th IAAF World Track and Field Champion-ships at the Stade de France, north of Paris. Alexander replaces national 100-200m sprint champ Jacey Harper in the squad which got  the bronze medal at the 2001 Championships in Edmonton, Canada.

The quartet of Alexander, Burns, Boldon and Brown finished second at the recent 14th Pan American Games in  the Dominican Republic recently,  in a new national record 38.53 seconds, which erased the previous 38.58 time set in Edmonton. The favoured American team has lost the services of world record holder Tim Montgomery and injured 100m Olympic king Maurice Greene and suspended Jon Drummond. The British team with new bronze medallist Darren Campbell, European champion Dwain Chambers and Mark Lewis-Francis are also tipped for a medal.