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Apr 7, 2025
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) -- Michael Johnson is confident his Grand Slam Track series will go from strength-to-strength as the curtain came down on the circuit's inaugural meeting in Kingston on Sunday after three days of action in a mostly empty stadium.
Conceived by Johnson as a way of reinvigorating interest in athletics outside of Olympic years, his four-event series aims to showcase more races between the world's best runners, sprinters and hurdlers.
But while the athletes in Kingston served up...
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