Gatlin Wants to 'Dominate On a Higher Level' in 2015

Published by Artesia News on May 13, 2015

Guess who Justin Gatlin saw soon after arriving in Doha for the start of the Diamond League season? Yep, Usain Bolt.

It was only a poster of the Jamaican in a shopping mall, but it’s another reminder — as if Gatlin needs any — of what his season is all about.

The posters and pictures of track’s No. 1 star actually help his focus, Gatlin said Wednesday, because he doesn’t have to conjure up mental images of the man he wants to dethrone this year as sprinting’s king.

“His picture’s everywhere,” Gatlin said. “I walk through the mall here and I see him everywhere. So I don’t have to imagine him everywhere, I see him all the time … I know he’s there and when I see him, I have to be ready for that.”