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