He also still has the pace and athletic ability that made him a junior sprint and high jump champion on the Cote d'Azur and now, after two years playing regularly in France, he has regained his confidence too.

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Now at his 10th major championship, Malcolm's only individual major medal outdoors was a silver on his senior major championship debut at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur - just a month after his world junior sprint championship double.

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Despite Smith's impressive run at the Aviva GP in Birmingham - which was a new national record - former world junior 100m and 200m gold medallist Aikines-Areetey was always favourite to claim the remaining 60m sprint place because of his personal-best performance at the English Institute of Sport on 13 February.

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