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Yohan Blake has explained how he struggled to process his performance at the Jamaican trials and how Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's setback at the Olympic Games opened his eyes and he bounced back to training.
Yohan Blake has revealed he struggled to process his performance at the Jamaican Olympic trials where he failed to make the cut to the Olympic team.
Yohan Blake had earlier announced that the Paris Olympic Games would be his final but his performance at the trials failed to yield great results as he was forced to finish fifth in the men’s 100m heats and failed to proceed to the semifinal.
The Jamaican sprint king, in an interview with Sports Max TV, revealed that he was numb at the moment but as time went by, he accepted what had happened and decided to move on from the setback.
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He explained that watching Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s final Olympic Games end in such a devastating way made him believe that his situation was not that bad.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had qualified for the Games after finishing third at the Jamaican trials but had to pull out despite winning her respective heat at the Olympics. The same misfortune befell Shericka Jackson who had also qualified in the 100m and 200m but was forced to pull out due to an injury.
“I just didn’t have any emotions…I have been in this thing so long that I have to understand that it’s just not your day. I asked myself and there was nothing I could work on then. Mine is not even worse, it’s Shelly’s, she went to the Olympics but she just couldn’t come back and that touched me even more because you wanted something so bad because in the next four years, maybe you can’t do it, there’s nothing you can do. I had to keep going,” Yohan Blake said.
The two-time Olympic champion added that his coach always motivates him to keep going, insisting that he still can run faster times. On his part, Yohan Blake explained that he still has the energy to keep going and will be looking forward to next season.
“If I listen to the coach, I feel like my body still has the fast times in it. You know when people say their body talks to them, mine doesn’t talk to me and I just feel like I should keep going…I have so much energy and I want to continue working and keep going,” he added.
Yohan Blake is already one of the most accomplished sprinters in the world. He won gold in the 100m at the 2011 World Championships as the youngest 100m world champion ever, and a silver medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the 100m and 200m races behind Usain Bolt.
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15:01 - 31.10.2024
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His times of 9.75 in 100m and 19.44 in 200m are the fastest 100m and 200m Olympic sprints in history to place second. Yohan Blake is also the second‑fastest man ever in both 100m and 200m. Together with Tyson Gay, he is the joint second-fastest man ever over 100m with a personal best of 9.69 seconds. His personal best for the 200m (19.26 seconds) is the second fastest time ever after Bolt (19.19 seconds.
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