Wallace Spearmon
Wallace Spearmon
Wallace Spearmon Jr.is a sprint athlete, who specializes in the 200 meters. He is a two-time NCAA outdoor champion in the 200 m and won the silver medal in the event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He has a personal best of 19.65 seconds for the distance, making him the eighth fastest 200 meter runner of all-time, and he also holds the indoor American record...
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth24 December 1984
ability doubt matter people successful
There are always going to be people who doubt your ability, ... No matter how successful you are, they're going to doubt your ability.
looked love wrong
Now did you all see anything wrong out there? ... We all looked happy. We're good. I love everybody. I want to go celebrate.
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It is my job to make sure he doesn't get two golds, ... I want to take one home, too. He can't be greedy.
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I'm thinking about it, ... I was supposed to play football when I first came here. That was what I was recruited as first, was a football player. It just didn't work out.
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Last year was a bad experience, ... It was my first time really running rounds, especially with big name people. I had to race Gatlin twice, made me look pretty bad.
added break determined doubt event field power race record strong tyson winner
Now that Tyson has added this $25,000 incentive, I am more determined than ever to try and break the world record. With such a strong field in this event the winner will have to show he has a combination of power and endurance. The winner of this race will no doubt also be the new world record holder.
both depends far golden league major mixture
I'll be doing more of it in the future. I'll do a mixture of both (the 400 and 200), it just depends on the year, as far as the major championships and Golden League and everything.
believe finally starting until
From the day that I didn't make it, he told me he wasn't going to run, but I didn't believe him until I got out here and finally got in that first race, ... Now I'm starting to believe.
finish
I'm going to try to finish up his duties,
eat stretch tried
I tried to get out strong, eat up the field, see where I was in the back stretch and come home.
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I can't believe he did that. At least wait until you graduate or something.