IT WAS NO WONDER Obadele Thompson came up big at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games with a bronze medal in the men’s 100 metres.
Speaking on the topic, Sports: Positioning For Global Success at the National Sports Council’s 2016 awards ceremony at the Frank Collymore Hall last Saturday night, Thompson revealed that he was fortunate to be surrounded by people like his local coaches, Orlando Greene, Frank Blackman and the late Tony Lovell, who never put limits on what they thought he could achieve.
“Several years when I was a junior athlete [Blackman] would tell me, ‘Oba, you’re an Olympic medallist; you just have to choose the colour’. Blackie would also tell us athletes during training sessions, ‘You know, I should print hats that say: ‘Think Big’!” (EZS)
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