Starting at 8:05 pm tonight, Jamaican athletes begin their hunt for medals in the men’s Shot Put.  Dorian Scott, silver medallist from the Commonwealth Games is nursing a few injuries but says he’s “going to make it happen on the 15th.  Scott has the fifth best throw of the year, a 21.45m national record which he set on March 28.

The blue riband event, the men’s 100m, also starts tonight at 8:45 pm tonight.  Our three competitors in the event are Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Michael Frater.

Bolt, the world-record holder, will be the first in action as he comes up in the first heat.  He will have his training partner, Daniel Bailey of Antigua and Barbuda, as his main competition.  Powell, the second fastest man ever, comes next in heat two where he will face former World Champion Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis and rising British sprinter Craig Pickering.  Frater will have fellow MVP member, Trinidad and Tobago's Darrell Brown, as his main challenge in heat four.

World champion from last year’s Osaka championships and one of the main contenders for Olympic gold, Tyson Gay, will start in heat five.

National coach Bertland Cameron said yesterday at the Games Village that Jamaica's athletes are ready to compete.

"There are no injuries and I think that when we look at the mood - mentally and physically they are ready to go. We are looking for good performances and so far things are going well. We just have to sit back now and wait and see how the athletes perform when they go out there."

Four other Jamaicans will be in action tonight as well.

Kenia Sinclair lines up against the 18-year old phenomenon from Kenya, Pamela Jelimo.  Jelimo’s best of the year is just over 4 seconds faster the Sinclair’s best of 1:59.

Defending Olympic silver medallist Danny McFarlane starts his campaign in the 400m hurdles, along with Markino Buckley and Isa Phillips.

According to McFarlane, “anything is possible.”

"I never like to go out there and predict what I'm going to do and what might happen because I leave that to the most high (God) and compete hard," McFarlane said in an interview with the Jamaica Observer.

"What I can say is that I'm fit and anything is possible," he added.

McFarlane, who has a season’s best of 48.39 seconds, is the fourth fastest of all the competitors entering the heats.  Only Americans Kerron Clement (47.79) and Bershawn Jackson (48.15) and South Africa LJ van Zyl (48.22) have gone faster than McFarlane this season.