Oblique Seville backs current sprint crop to get down to 9.6sec but says Bolt will always be best

• World champion says ‘only matter of time’ to run 9.6sec

• Seville dismisses effect of Noah Lyles’s mind games

On Sunday night, Oblique Seville became the first Jamaican to win the men’s 100m world title since Usain Bolt. But it turns out the 24-year-old’s mind is just as quick as his blistering leg speed.

In an interview to celebrate his victory, Seville was asked if he were to design a sprinter what would he look like. The questioner expected a long answer. Perhaps Justin Gatlin’s start, Michael Johnson’s mentality, and Bolt’s leg speed. But one word came back from Seville’s mouth almost instantaneously. “Usain.”

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