Believe it or not, but London 2012 is just around the corner and with Team GB's lack of medals within the track and field events at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, this year, how are we supposed to turn that round at the London Olympic Games in 2012? Does Great Britain have our very own Usain Bolt of Jamaica...the fastest man on earth? (who set new world records in both the 100m and 200m sprints) or Michael Phelps? (who won 8 Olympic golds in the swimming events at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008) Is it possible that Team GB have another Linford Christie ready and waiting to imulate his heroic Olympic gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics Games in 1992, hidding away in the locker room ready to be released on the Olympic stage in 2012???
I for one am not sure how confident i am about the matter and would not bet my house on the likelyhood of the Olympic Games in 2012 being any different for Britians "finest" sprinters....with the greats of the past staying firmly in the past and the current 100m and 200m bois representing Team GB simply miles behind the likes of Jamacia's Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt...who showed the world how to break the 100m and 200m world records with ease in Beijing . I simply can't see Mark Lewis Francis or Christian Malcome producing anywhere near as impressive and mind blowing performances as the two Jamacian front men did.
Was Dwaine Chambers the closest that Team GB's and the rest of the British nation are going to see, to win sprinting golds? The man found guilty of taking the illegal substances...the man who along with fellow 4 x 100m team mates...Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis was stripped of his European Championship gold medal in 1999??? Maybe im being slightly septical but i guess im along with the rest of the athletes world are simply in awe at the worlds finest sporting athletes and are just simply not sure if team gb are able to compete with what the worlds leading nations on the athletics track at this moment in time.....yet i guess only time will tell..
By Gavin Doyle
I for one am not sure how confident i am about the matter and would not bet my house on the likelyhood of the Olympic Games in 2012 being any different for Britians "finest" sprinters....with the greats of the past staying firmly in the past and the current 100m and 200m bois representing Team GB simply miles behind the likes of Jamacia's Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt...who showed the world how to break the 100m and 200m world records with ease in Beijing . I simply can't see Mark Lewis Francis or Christian Malcome producing anywhere near as impressive and mind blowing performances as the two Jamacian front men did.
Was Dwaine Chambers the closest that Team GB's and the rest of the British nation are going to see, to win sprinting golds? The man found guilty of taking the illegal substances...the man who along with fellow 4 x 100m team mates...Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis was stripped of his European Championship gold medal in 1999??? Maybe im being slightly septical but i guess im along with the rest of the athletes world are simply in awe at the worlds finest sporting athletes and are just simply not sure if team gb are able to compete with what the worlds leading nations on the athletics track at this moment in time.....yet i guess only time will tell..
By Gavin Doyle
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