Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A kakar 2007 Pognon ya lashe lambar tagulla a mita 60 a gasar zakarun Turai ta 2007. Ya gudu mita 60 a cikin 6.55 seconds, mafi kyau fiye da shekarar da ta gabata. Duk da haka, a lokacin kakar waje bai yi gasa ba. Ya koma gasar a shekarar 2008, yana gudu ne kawai 6.68 a cikin mita 60 a cikin gida amma ya gudanar da 10.13 seconds a watan Yuli a Rethimno don cancanta ga Wasannin Olympics a Beijing. Ya yi gasa a cikin tseren mita 100, ya zama na uku a cikin zafinsa a bayan Tyrone Edgar da Darvis Patton a cikin lokaci na 10.26 seconds. Ya cancanci zuwa zagaye na biyu wanda ya inganta lokacinsa zuwa dakika 10.21; duk da haka, bai sami damar zuwa wasan kusa da na karshe ba yayin da ya gama a matsayi na hudu. Bai shiga cikin 4 × 100 m relay ba
, kodayake Faransa ta fitar da wata kungiya.