19 March,2009 08:41 AM IST | | AFP
The men's 100m world record set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt in Beijing last August will be broken at August's World Athletics Championships in Berlin, IAAF president Lamine Diack said.
The world's fastest men will gather in Berlin for the final.
"Whoever wants to win 100 metres in Berlin will have to run under 9.69seconds," International Association of Athletics Federations president Diack told German tabloid Bild, five months before the competition begins.
"The superb blue track will help, Bolt is not now as far ahead of the others as he was in Beijing. It will be a high-class final."
Diack has promised the IAAF will do everything in their power to make sure the world championships are free of doping.
"We will carry out 1000 drugs tests, 300 for more than in Beijing," said Diack.
