Greene backs Bolt

The Jamaican infamously false-started in the final, with recently-introduced rules meaning that he was immediately disqualified - a huge shock after Bolt had dominated the discipline for the past three years.

But Greene, Eurosport's expert analyst for the World Championships, says he expects Bolt to return to the track with the his confidence and demeanour intact when the 200m heats begin on Friday.

"As an athlete you can't let it bother you, you have to just move on from it," Greene said.

"I don't think he's going to change anything - and he shouldn't, either.

"If you start changing stuff, you start getting out of your element, of how you compete. The minute you start changing something or trying to be something different then it screws everything else up."

Greene, who won the 100m world championship title three times in a row between 1997 and 2001, and also took Olympic gold medal in Sydney, has declared himself strongly against the new rules governing false-starts.

"I'm the type of sprinter that likes to be aggressive and powerful. (The false-start rule) takes away from that because if you go in there, trying to be aggressive, sometimes you accidentally false-start.

"So if you're going in and you're thinking, 'OK, I can't be as aggressive as I want to be because I might come out of the blocks to early', you're changing your race because of the rule."

Greene says he felt the shorter format would have proved the bigger challenge, and believes Bolt is more likely to have things his own way in the 200m.

"The 100m was harder for him to win - if he was going to win it - which I don't think he would have," Greene added.

"I thought Blake could win that even with Usain running. The 200m is a lot easier (for him)."

But though Bolt has an opportunity to redeem his championships in Daegu, Greene does not hold out much hope for Britain's sprinters -- either in this championships or the upcoming London Olympics.

"I wouldn't say they (British sprinters) have disappointed me," Greene said, "But I don't think they put in the quality of work and I don't think they know how to put in the quality of work that they need to get better.

"The likes of Darren Campbell and Linford Christie are not there anymore. The sprinters are relaxed, complacent, happy with what they're doing, and that's why they're not getting any better.

"It's going to be very hard to correct that before London 2012.

"You're in the same boat as the United States - you've got to find some kids who really love to go out there and put in the work, and succeed.

"My manager used to say there's a difference between people - there's some people who just like to go to a party - but there's very few people who like the party to be hosted for them.

"I think some athletes at the moment are just happy to go to a party."

With the party to come to London in 2012, British sprinting looks a long way away from competing with the very best.