Don't worry! McLeod confident Jamaica will keep flag flying after Bolt’s departure
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- Olympic sprint hurdles champion Omar McLeod has expressed confidence in the new generation of Jamaican sprinters to keep Jamaica at the pinnacle of the track and field world after the departure of world’s fastest man Usain Bolt.
- Bolt has been the alpha male of sprinting for close to a decade and following his swansong at the World Championships in London this summer, the world of sprinting awaits another superstar.
- But despite fears that Bolt’s spikes will be too hard to fill and the marquis event may suffer as a result, McLeod is not perturbed.
- “It’s saddening that he’s retiring, but there is nothing we can do to change his mind, but what we can do, as young emerging Jamaican athletes, is shine our own lights and try our very best to keep the flag flying high,” McLeod said
Olympic sprint hurdles champion Omar McLeod has expressed confidence in the new generation of Jamaican sprinters to keep Jamaica at the pinnacle of the track and field world after the departure of world’s fastest man Usain Bolt.
Bolt has been the alpha male of sprinting for close to a decade and following his swansong at the World Championships in London this summer, the world of sprinting awaits another superstar. But despite fears that Bolt’s spikes will be too hard to fill and the marquis event may suffer as a result, McLeod is not perturbed.
“It’s saddening that he’s retiring, but there is nothing we can do to change his mind, but what we can do, as young emerging Jamaican athletes, is shine our own lights and try our very best to keep the flag flying high,” McLeod said
