In a few months time, it would be 14 years since Nigerian sprinter Olusoji Fasuba set an African record in the 100m event.
While he understandably enjoys this great honour, Fasuba who has since joined the British Royal Navy reveals he is pained others are finding it difficult to surpass his impressive mark several years after.PT: It’s been some years that you retired from athletics, what have you been up to and do you agree in any way with those that argue that you left the sports quite prematurelyI would truly admit that I stopped running quite early.
When I look back at most of my achievements and the sacrifices I made for the country , it hit me hard that I had done a lot with virtually nothing to show back from the country in terms of what I can fall back on when I want to retire. PT: Though some of have come quite close, your record is still standing, why has it been so difficult to equal or break your recordThings are changing now and we now have more 9-sec runners with more coming from our great Nation Nigeria.
I have a lot of faith and believe in our current sprinters both at home and abroad. To pin point any one of them as the likely candidate to break that record is really hard because they are all improving greatly and I see better days to come and the record falling soon.
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