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The voice is incredulous, as if the commentator is unable to compute what his eyes are telling him. “Look at the clock!” he urges as a tiny Jamaican sprinter, Brianna Lyston, powers clear of the field to win the 200m in 23.46sec. “She absolutely demolishes the record ... she has just produced something out of this world!”
It is rare that the sporting exploits of a 12-year-old go viral. But Lyston’s performance at this year’s Champs, Jamaica’s boys’ and girls’ inter-schools championships, was so spectacular that TV stations and newspapers across the globe rushed to proclaim her as the heiress to Usain Bolt.
Usain Bolt: ‘I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean’
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Of course that was premature. But to put Lyston’s time into context, it would have been good enough for fourth in the senior British Olympic trials last year, ahead of athletes such as Bianca Williams – who won 200m bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and went to Rio as part of the British 4x100m relay team.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...P=share_btn_fb
It is rare that the sporting exploits of a 12-year-old go viral. But Lyston’s performance at this year’s Champs, Jamaica’s boys’ and girls’ inter-schools championships, was so spectacular that TV stations and newspapers across the globe rushed to proclaim her as the heiress to Usain Bolt.
Usain Bolt: ‘I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean’
Read more
Of course that was premature. But to put Lyston’s time into context, it would have been good enough for fourth in the senior British Olympic trials last year, ahead of athletes such as Bianca Williams – who won 200m bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and went to Rio as part of the British 4x100m relay team.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...P=share_btn_fb
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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