Mark Lewis-Francis believes that Usain Bolt is beatable and that his own injury nightmare will help him in his quest to catch the fastest man on the planet.
The 28-year-old Briton's career has been plagued by injuries and he has only recently returned from his latest setback, a grade-three tear in his groin.
Despite that, he is confident he has the ability to take on the world's best this season and in the 2012 London Olympics.
He said, "Usain Bolt is an unbelievable talent and is beatable. I'm looking to catch him and, anyway, everyone has to have a bad day at some point. But from my point of view, if I can come back from the injuries I've had then racing another human being shouldn't be that hard."
Lewis-Francis' groin tear pales into insignificance compared to the Achilles injury nightmares that blighted his career since the highlight of anchoring Team GB to gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2004 Olympics.
A trip to the world renowned sports doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller Wohlfahrt, who has worked on the likes of Bolt, Paula Radcliffe, Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen, has helped rectify his latest complaint but the injury forced him to miss out on a shot at gold at the European Indoors in Paris in March.
Source: The Punch