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Usain Bolt ‘in extremely good shape’ on eve of return, reacts to Russia ban

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Usain Bolt said he’s in “extremely good shape,” better than last year, in fact, one day before his first race in three weeks, since suffering a strained hamstring at the Jamaican Olympic TrialsBolt will race a 200m for the first time since Aug. 27 at a Diamond League meet in London on Friday, scheduled for 3:52 p.m. ET. (full start lists here)

“My hamstrings are good. I have no issues right now,” Bolt said. “I’m happy that I didn’t get a really bad setback. … I was always able to train.”

Bolt did say, however, that he has done one start out of a block in training since the injury, and that it wasn’t as aggressive as it usually is.