Hemmings to train with rival Bidouane

Hemmings

MONACO, CANA -

JAMAICA'S former Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion Deon Hemmings is expected to fly to Morocco accompanied by her agent Mark Block at the end of March for a one-month special training with Morocco's 1997 World champion Nezha Bidouane, the IAAF website reported on Monday.

Both athletes are getting ready for the summer season and mainly for the 8th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton Canada from August 3-12.

Over the past five years, 1996 Olympic champion Hemmings and Bidouane, also a silver medallist in Seville and bronze medallist in Sydney Olympic Games have been the greatest 400m hurdles runner together with former world champion and world record holder Kim Batten of the United States, before the appearance of the likes of Cuban Daimi Pernia, and the transformation of Russian Irina Privalova, who won gold in Sydney.

Hemmings, 31, became the first Jamaican woman to win an Olympic gold medal when crossing the finish line in Atlanta.

She has also won silver in Athens 1997 and bronze in both Gothenburg 1995 and Seville 1999.

In Sydney 2000, Hemmings finished second and said she would retire at the end of the 2001 season.

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