Bolt to open season with 400m

Paris - Usain Bolt will make his 2010 track debut over the longer distance of 400m at a February 13 athletics meet on the sprint king's home island of Jamaica, organisers said on Wednesday.

The 23-year-old, world and Olympic champion and world record holder over the 100m and 200m, normally kicks off his season with outings over one lap of the track as a way of easing himself from training into competitive racing.

Bolt's compatriots Yohan Blake, Ricardo Chambers, Daniel Bailey and Marvin Anderson have also been entered for the event at the national stadium.

Bolt was last in action in September with a straightforward win in the 200m during the season-ending IAAF finals at Salonika, Greece.

This season, the sprinter will take part in seven of the 14 meetings in the IAAF's newly-launched Diamond League but seems unlikely to race at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October.