Olympics.

The Bermuda sprinter, who will be running the 100 metres in Atlanta, says he is feeling strong and reckoned that he was about "80 to 85 percent back to normal'' after receiving treatment for a lingering right hamstring problem.

He predicted that between now and a few days prior to the start of the Olympics he expected to be "spot on'' for his first appearance in an event of this magnitude.

Bermuda Track and Field Association president Stanley Douglas said this week that there was concern about Bean's fitness after he recently left for the west coast for treatment and as a consequence some major meets were being lined up for Bean to prove himself before the Olympics.

But Bean insisted that he is making a full recovery and said there was no cause for alarm.

"To compete in the Olympics for my country has always been a life long dream of mine and my family and I am not going to let anything stand in my way of my dream,'' he said from his training base in Long Beach, California.

"I qualified for the Olympics, I have been training years for it. I was telling people last year and all through the years that I will be in Atlanta in '96 and nobody believed me. As far as I am concerned I will still be there''.

"I am not entertaining the thought about being unable to overcome this thing, people can think what they want to think. I know what I am capable of. I have had this type of injury before and have come back, so I am not worried. I know what my body is telling me and what I feel.'' Douglas was working on getting Bean into three pre-Olympic meets during the next 10 days, but the athlete has decided to concentrate on only the Bahamas Olympic Festival in Nassau on July 15.