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muadib---Mark Wignalls view
Mr Yohan Blake, please ease up on the growl
I would be the last person who would want to deny Jamaican speedster Yohan 'The Beast' Blake his long moment in the sun.
Training out of the same camp with Bolt, it is difficult for the young man not to want to craft and market his total image in the same expert and easy manner as Bolt has done.
Where Bolt seems a natural in his image marketing and the world audience has warmed to him, my personal sense is that Blake seems to be trying too hard to mimic Bolt by doing his 'beast' pose (screwed-up face, arms partially extended forward and the fingers simulating a beast about to pounce) for the cameras.
I am no marketing guru, but while I know it is made up, it comes across to me as made up. It shouldn't be so, and lacks a certain fluidity and grace. Really now, I am forced to ask myself, how can a snarl be graceful?
In addition, snarling to a cameraman may be one thing, but doing so to the world while on the medal podium seems somewhat out of place.
Usain Bolt is a hard act to follow. Yohan Blake is his own person, but at this time Bolt casts a rather long shadow on others.
I have no problems with Blake's antics except to the extent that I believe too much effort is being applied to make them seem overdone.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...#ixzz23zpNIvw8
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