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Usain Bolt is set for his most testing race since landing the Beijing golds in the Memorial Van Damme meeting.

In the the most eagerly awaited race since the Beijing Games, sprint sensation Bolt will go head to head with arch rivals Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay in the last IAAF Golden League fixture of the season.

Wilfred Meer, the event's organiser has pulled off a coup getting the trio to face one another over 100m and the confrontation could see Bolt´s world record of 9.69seconds threatened by Powell.

But Gay - last summer`s world champion in both disciplines, who has just recovered from the hamstring injury which wrecked his Olympic ambitions - is unlikely to match the pace of Caribbean duo.

Although Powell failed to produce his best at a second successive Olympics when placing a disappointing fifth in China, he has returned to action with a vengeance since returning to the European circuit.

The former world record holder flew to a formidable time of 9.87seconds last Sunday at Gateshead in atrocious conditions and on Tuesday in Lausanne showed that was no fluke.

Powell produced a time of 9.72sec at the IAAF Super Grand Prix - a time which only Bolt has bettered.

"Asafa Powell is a great athlete," insisted Bolt, who broke the two-year-old 200m meeting record with a time of 19.63sec in Lausanne.

Bolt, who was beaten by Powell in their pre-Olympics clash in Stockholm, admitted: ¨Now there will be more pressure for me but I will do my best.

"The most important thing for me is to end the competition staying injury free."

"I hope I`m running up to my best. I will be prepared - I`m just thinking about the race.

"It doesn`t matter if I don`t have the world record because for me the Olympic medal means much more to me."