What is Gatlin and Trevors’ facination with MLF? They seem to be trying to forge better links with the UK and I know at least one of the UK’s top juniors is out at Sprint Captial training with them. I can only guess that they want to attract the very tallented british youth of the future…
Very good opportunity for the junior
Every great champion needs a sparring partner… :rolleyes:…besides I don’t think MLF would be coached to beat Gatlin 
…a bit of a conflict.
…$0.02
personally MLF should take the opportunity or at least wait till the end of the season to do so.he should stick with his plan for this season and see how it goes,if it goes to plan then stick with it but if it doesn’t then time to think.
gatlins team seem to be on the ball.he is performing great the past few years and is consistant year in year out.if MLF was to join he would be overshadowed but so was leroy burrell with carl lewis but he turned the tables for a while then injuries struck.
i’ve said it in the past and ill say it again that the uk sprinters should get the heck out of the uk.
04 Apr 2006 08:35
Double World Youth sprint champion Harry Aikines-Aryeetey is making the most of his Easter break for the next fortnight – receiving lessons of an athletics lifetime from Olympic champions Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford plus World Indoors 60m gold medallist Me’Lisa Barber.
The 17-year-old from Sutton in Surrey flew out with his coach, UK Athletics Performance Manager Matt Favier, on Monday for the USA stars’ training camp in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The venture – which fits perfectly into the determination of UK Athletics Performance Director Dave Collins to encourage Britain’s bright young stars and their personal coaches to seek the best mentors in the world – has come about as a result of Harry being feted by the IAAF as the first teenager to win both the 100m and 200m at IAAF World Youth Championships.
When he flew to Monaco for the IAAF Gala at the end of last season, he was approached by Trevor Graham, who coached Gatlin to the 100m title and Crawford to the 200m gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, then enjoyed more success when Barber won the World Indoor title in Moscow last month.
Harry explains: “Trevor Graham approached me to say he would like to coach me. This is not the point of my career where I felt compelled to do that. But when me and Matt were thinking about this spring’s warm weather training, I mentioned the conversation I’d had with Trevor and things developed from there.
“I’ve met Gatlin three times now and every time he has been more and more friendly with me. So I am looking forward to learning and seeing what they are doing over there. It’s not every day you get to train with Olympic and World Champions!”
But his blossoming friendship with the fleet-foot Americans will not slow Harry’s ambition to overtake them in the chase for major honours – “some time soon I hope!”
Coach Favier says: “I am looking forward to Harry and myself benefiting from being around the group and seeing what we can learn.”
And the level-headed Harry will not forget that his school exams start – with PE and sociology – on 16 June. “Obviously I have got to take a few text books with me,” he adds. “I shall try and get a bit of revision in between the training sessions.”