The 800-meter runner of Scotland looks back to its European victory in 1990 – 1. 44.76
The 1986 cooperation games in Edinburgh were my first real big championship. Steve Wind has thrown back straight and left me, and then I went to everyone when I woke up. When Europeans came during that summer, I really did not think about anything else than. “Cream will try to take me again.” So I thought. “When the crane starts, he hits.”
The Council of Europe must return from the fever of the gland so that I thought. I was tactically cool, but the Council of Europe beat me. I couldn’t behave differently. I couldn’t give anything else. He just hit me on the line.
At that moment, I was still under the radar. No one expected me to turn again. In the interpretation of Europeans, he commented on the commentator with 200m. That type:
But it comes four years later, it was a little different. In 1989 I was running 1. 43.88 And no one had done better in that year. No Europeans had been beaten for three years, so I knew I was in a very good condition for Europeans. It was just about my head I got around I was loved and how to eliminate problems.
I reached the taxi and semi-finals, and the head coach of the British team Frank Dick came to me on the way to the workout. He said he knew I was nervous because I was waiting to run well, and I used to be faster than one. He asked me:
And he just changed my mind. The joke, I said, what I said to him that.
Frank said. “Well, what is your problem?” And then he left. After that I was good. I did 51 kicks for split. I expected them to attack me on the back, but I went, so the plan really did well.
Unlike Kenyans who acted as teams, we were not British talking about the race. It was just a case that we all go to ourselves. When I went hard, so David became aggravated, and he tried to go in front of me and slow down it. I knew he wanted, so I just flew next to him.
If I couldn’t win if I could do it differently and didn’t get where I wanted to get to transform there, knowing that I had to be transformed every year.
I made my plan and if you do it and beat it, you can’t complain. But I did my best for the right tactical for that race to give me the best chance to win. I was flying. They all struggled to try to pass each other and I just left them.
Linford Christi won those championships from 100 m. John Regis received 200 m and Roger Black, 400 m. You had Colin Jackson and Chris Akabus gold in obstacles and, of course, 3000 m.
We all rooted for each other. We were all friends. That year, everyone has done well in Europe, and it’s a virus through the team when everything is going well. People think. “Well, they do it, so can I do it?” And it gives that additional motivation because they have raised their game and you are trying to do the same.
We just had a good time. But then the next day, we are ready to compete quite quickly. Do you enjoy the fruits of your labor? It’s fun, no one’s team was injured. Were all high. If it does bad, sometimes you find that the physius room is full because people are down and there is no good performance. Everyone was ignited including coaches.
My medal is now fully abused. I have visited them with all more than 200 basic schools to negotiate with children, so they are all taking and do not shine at all. But I don’t mind. I take schools to schools like my Olympic number and children love it, but they have to get it. They are more appreciated than if they were sitting in a drawer.
How did the wood say?
