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Friday 25 July 1997 23:02 BST
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Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis and Donovan Bailey are among those lined up to run in exhibition races during the University Games in Sicily. The Games are scheduled for 19-31 August.

Dwain Chambers, of London, set a new world junior 100 metres record in Ljubljana, Slovenia, yeseterday as he became the first athlete in history to retain the European junior 100m title. The 19-year-old from Belgrave Harriers clocked 10.06sec to beat the previous best by 0.02sec registered by Obadele Thompson, of the Bahamas, in 1994.

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