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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
March 24 - 30, 2012
Blake hopes to scoop more of Bolt’s titles EVERYONE expected Jamaican flags to be flying high after the 100 meters final at the 2011 World Athletics Championships -- but noone predicted that Usain Bolt would not be performing his customary celebration rituals.
The world’s fastest man had to watch as his training partner Yohan Blake took his title in South Korea, with the Olympic champion having been disqualified for a false start. The furore over Bolt’s
predicament completely overshadowed the achievement of his 22-yearold compatriot, who became the youngest world champion since U.S. sprint legend Carl Lewis was crowned in 1983
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aged just 21. They are firm friends as well as training partners, but when the starting gun sounds at this year’s London Olympics, there will only be one thing on Blake’s mind -- scooping another one of Bolt’s titles. Bolt won the 100m and 200m events in record times at Beijing 2008, and earned a third gold in the 4x100m relay, but Blake is closing the gap on his idol with personal bests last year. CNN’s Human to Hero show caught up with the boy from St. James as he turns his attention to performing on the biggest stage of all. Early days Blake’s sprinting career took off in his early teens when he was spotted running at his school in Spanish Town, and he made a big impression at the Carifta Games -- a Caribbean track and field meeting for young athletes. “Somebody just saw me running, went up to my school principal and said ‘You’ve got a new track star there,” and from there it started, from the age of 15 or so I started running,” he says. “When I was in High School I ran the Jamaican national junior record of 10.11 seconds. I was running at the Carifta Games when I ran 10.18 secs in the semis. And I ran 10.11 in the final, so from there I knew I could do something great. “I think it’s fate because I believe in fate and that it leads towards good things.” Heroes “I really have to look up to Usain Bolt because of what he has done. Just to be his
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Human to Hero: Champion Blake bids to steal buddy Bolt’s sprint swag
training partner and know what he thinks and know what he can do -- I have to look up to him. “Asafa Powell (100m world record holder between June 2005 and May 2008) started it back in the day, and for a guy to do that to put Jamaica on the world stage and say ‘Look, Jamaica can dominate the world,’ I have to look up to someone like that that even though he did not get a world medal at the time. He has put Jamaica out there.” Gold in Daegu Blake posted a time of 9.92 seconds, enough to beat a strong field in the final but still well short of Bolt’s world record of 9.58. “What happened at Daegu -- Usain Bolt is on the world stage and people are always going to look at that,” Blake says. “But I think I turned people’s minds. It wasn’t a fluke, so I think when they look back on Daegu they’ll
say, ‘Oh, there’s a young man who is going to challenge him.’ “ “My first time going into the Olympics, you know, I think it is going to be a breathtaking moment for me. I want to go to the Olympics, have some fun and come back home with some medals. “When I feel it is a big stage for me as the Olympics is where the big times, the big things really happen because an Olympic medal would really mean a lot. “It makes more sponsors come out to you, so going out to the Olympics is going to be a really wonderful gift for me, really.” The competition “When you have Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, Usain Bolt and myself lining up for the 100m, I’m always excited because the competition is really good and I want to be the best person on the day, the best person to execute well,” Blake says.
Dravid says future of Test cricket depends on schedule RAHUL Dravid believes the future of Test cricket may be dependent on its scheduling in a cramped calendar. “If you play enough Test cricket, I think it will survive,” the India batting legend told BBC Radio 5 live, in his first interview since retiring from international cricket this month. “Twenty20 has put a strain on the calendar, so it’s just a question of how the administrators manage it. “The challenge will be to ensure every team plays enough Tests in the year.” Dravid, 39, is second on the list of all-time leading Test run-scorers with 13,288, behind former team-mate
Sachin Tendulkar, who currently has 15,470. He is also only one of six players to have scored more than 10,000 one-day international runs. Dravid continued: “I think the ideal scenario would be for young players not to have to make choice between playing all three forms of the game. “I think they should be able to play all three forms, as long as they stay fit and as long as international boards are willing to schedule enough Tests, to give them the opportunity. “We’ve seen recent examples of players who have shown you can play Test and T20 cricket.”