Can this record and silver medal break the 10 second barrier this weekend? Think so
Kennedy raced 100 meters in 10.03 in Perth at the beginning of this year, putting it alongside Matt Shirvington as the third Australian sprinter ever. Only Rohan Browning, who ran 10.01 at the Tokyo Olympics, and Johnson with 9.93 in 2003, are faster. Browning will also run to Melbourne on Saturday evening.
“My coach, Andrew (Iselin) and my team prepared me in a way possible this year, I just have to perform,” said Kennedy.
“For the 100 we have a large group of guys who manage some truly incredible moments this season. We have more types that could break that 10 second barrier.
“I think citizens (in Perth in two weeks) will be an absolute field there.
“It will be incredible. We all push us, so if a person is going fast we will probably go quickly.”
He said the 100 meters were the final race.
“Nobody in Australia did it except Patrick Johnson. So I want to be the first. All the other guys also want to be the first to do it, so there is a lot of chirping and jokes, but it’s all fun and play. I would be happy if some other types of breaking the barrier of 10 seconds, but obviously, I want to do it first.”
Saturday evening Kennedy will also manage the 200 meters head each with the gout of the sensation for teenagers, who beat Peter Norman’s national record of 200m in December, when he was 16 years old. While Gout also managed a 10 -second dish assisted by the wind in the 100m, he will compete only in the 200m in Melbourne.
Letile Tebogo, the 200m Olympic champion in Paris, will run to Melbourne this weekend, but not against gout. Tebogo manages 400 m as part of his accumulation at the World Championships in Tokyo by the end of the year.
The Botswana athlete was struck by Gout’s efforts but warned him to hurry slowly. He said that after racing in Melbourne and Perth, the schoolgirl should return to the racing athletes of his age and not hurry to compete regularly against men.
“The best advice I was told (as a young athlete) was that Rome was not built in a day,” said Tebogo.
“This was the best advice. At the beginning I could not get the concept, I took it later because for me and my coach, I was the fastest junior of my country. I thought, as I had no competition (between junior) but rather (my coach) knew what he was doing, protecting me against the elderly.”
He said the gout could make history, as long as he has kept his hunger.
“It can be quite good. It can be one of the best, it could be in the history books. You know, if you continue hunger in which it is right now, it could, it could go very fast.”
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