Jamaica's Powell Breaks 100-Meter Dash Record

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Published June 14, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Jamaica's Asafa Powell lowers the world record in the men's 100 meters to 9.77 seconds. His time at a meet in Athens, Greece, trims one-hundredth of a second off the previous mark, set in 2002.

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