He had warned everybody they should expect something special and although his semi-final involved yet another false start, he stormed to an easy victory, clocking just 0.03s over Maurice Greene's world record of 6.39s.

BBC: Record-breaking Chambers in final

He smashed the British and European record in Saturday's semi-final with a phenomenal time of 6.42s - breaking Jason Gardener's 10-year-old British record by 0.04s and just 0.03s slower than Maurice Greene's world record.

BBC: Chambers storms to gold in Turin

Days later, I'm still appalled that a magnificent sprinter like Johnson, a thoughtful and well-spoken fellow, a noble man-god, would lose his cool in a rivalry of words with a cheap, two-dollar-pistol-of-a-sprinter named Maurice Greene.

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Chambers also said he expected former world record holder Maurice Greene - who told the BBC's Athletics Focus on Saturday that he too expected to break 9.70 this season - to return to his best this season.

BBC: Chambers stalks new world record