Gatlin's Just Wild About Harry Olympic Champion has Taken Promising British Teenager Under His Wing and Believes He Can Help Make Him Into an Olympic Champion
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The way Justin Gatlin remembers it, the first time he met 17- year-old Harry Aikines-Aryeetey was when they shared a table at a prize-giving dinner in Monaco last September. The Surrey teenager, who was there to pick up a 'rising star' award for winning the 100 and 200 metres gold medals at the World Youth Championships, begs to differ.
The very first meeting, says Aikines-Aryeetey, came a month earlier at the Sheffield Grand Prix when he marched up to Gatlin, the American Olympic and double world champion, told him that he, too, was a double world gold medallist and asked if he wouldn't mind signing one of his running spikes. He then prevailed upon Maurice Greene, the previous Olympic 100m champion, to autograph the other one.See the full content of this document
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Gatlin's Just Wild About Harry Olympic Champion has Taken Promising British Teenager Under His Wing and Believes He Can Help Make Him Into an Olympic Champion
"They were the spikes I used when I won the 200 at the world youths,'' he says. "I thought if I got them to autograph them they might be worth something on eBay.'' A booming laugh quickly follows. "Not really. They're in a bag at home. They're probably not worth that much anyway.''
Aikines-Aryeetey, an A-level pup...See the full content of this document