Flying machine

ZHARNEL SPICING UP 100m SCENE

- MIKE WALTERS

BRITAIN’S fastest man Zharnel Hughes is promising “spice” in a Netflix series on track sprinters which ramps up call room rivalries on the countdown to Paris 2024.

Hughes broke Linford Christie’s 30year national record when he clocked 9.83sec over 100 metres in New York seven months ago – and says there are “no limits” to what he could achieve in an Olympic year.

From his sunshine camp in Jamaica, where he is trained by Usain Bolt’s ex-coach Glen Mills, Hughes said: “With great preparation comes great performances. Who knows? The record could probably go down again.”

Hughes, 28, is relishing the “banter” and fly-on-the-wall nosiness of the Netflix production in which cameras followed the elite sprint corps worldwide.

He said: “It’s been pretty cool to be involved. I love the experience I’ve had with them and I think there’s a lot of spice in there that people will definitely gravitate to. I’m pretty sure you’ll hear some backlash with regards to how people talk about how they get prepared for races and so forth.