American sprint icon Justin Gatlin has revealed a big worry about Kishane Thompson’s running style that could cost him at the Olympic games in Paris this August.)
A lot of people might not have known the name Kishane Thompson before the recently concluded Jamaica National Trials.
However, after speeding to a world-leading 9.77s to become the ninth-fastest male sprinter in history, and the fourth-fastest Jamaican in the 100m, with Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake, and Usain Bolt the only men to boast quicker times.
Indeed, he is now the toast of the sprinting world. At 22 years old, Kishane is set to compete in his first Olympics Games, in only his second year as a professional athlete.
Naturally, he has been made the favorite to clinch gold at the event ahead of the likes of Noah Lyles, Oblique Seville, Letsile Tebogo and Ferdinand Omanyala.
However, Thompson has had this tendancy to slow down after 70 meters like he did at the Jamaican Olympic trials, and Gatlin believes it could come to count against him when it matters, drawing comparisons to how 2015 season.
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