Who Were the Fastest Runners in Your School?
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Junior (or 'middle' school) we had Adrian, Royston and Geoffrey. The fastest sprinters by quite a way. All three had parents from the Caribbean.
When I started playing rugby for my local team (as a colt) the quickest on the pitch (on our team or the opponents) were always the Caribbean kids. The one or two African kids I met during school weren't quick at all (nor were they that athletic either).
The Caribbean kids I went to school with just seemed to be naturally athletic, quicker sprinters and muscular.
Same in secondary school more or less but there was less emphasis on sport.
When I started playing rugby for my local team (as a colt) the quickest on the pitch (on our team or the opponents) were always the Caribbean kids. The one or two African kids I met during school weren't quick at all (nor were they that athletic either).
The Caribbean kids I went to school with just seemed to be naturally athletic, quicker sprinters and muscular.
Same in secondary school more or less but there was less emphasis on sport.
A Nigerian guy in my 6th form - usually won the schools national athletics meets (10.9. 100m ...over 30 years ago )
Funny thing is ... He was also a really arrogant nasty piece of work - nearly put someone in hospital ... , (and had been excluded from one public school before he came to where I was)
.....30 years later I saw his pic in a business journal ....he now looks like the classic jabba the hutt African chief ...not the athletic hardman
Funny thing is ... He was also a really arrogant nasty piece of work - nearly put someone in hospital ... , (and had been excluded from one public school before he came to where I was)
.....30 years later I saw his pic in a business journal ....he now looks like the classic jabba the hutt African chief ...not the athletic hardman
It was me for a long time as it goes for 100m and 200m, I competed for the county at a national level and also held the county high jump record for many years until a young chap called Ben Challenger came along and beat it and he ended up competing internationally for Team GB I believe.
Seeing as, to the best of my recollection, I was the only person in my class without African ancestry, I would possibly have been the slowest, had my sparkling junior track and field career not been cut short by a knee problem.
Later on in life, when my knee was better, I did prove capable of outrunning several SA cops, which would have been useful knowledge if only they didn't carry guns.
EDIT: To answer the OP, I have no idea who was the quickest, but it was probably a guy called Clint, if that helps.
Later on in life, when my knee was better, I did prove capable of outrunning several SA cops, which would have been useful knowledge if only they didn't carry guns.
EDIT: To answer the OP, I have no idea who was the quickest, but it was probably a guy called Clint, if that helps.
Edited by Alfanatic on Sunday 27th November 10:36
A chap called Andrew Impy. Not sure of his extraction but I'd guess African rather than caribbean. He joined the school late in the year and introduced himself as "chalky" and kept the name through school... and, I understand, the rest of his footballing career with QPR, West Ham and Leciester etc. That is, he ended up a premiership footballer.
I remember one year he entered and won every discipline in the school's sports day. From then on thy introduced a rule that any one kid could only enter a maximum of three events!
I remember one year he entered and won every discipline in the school's sports day. From then on thy introduced a rule that any one kid could only enter a maximum of three events!
The fastest was a guy called Stephen Dalzell. What a bellend he was. I remember on our first day of school, we all had to introduce ourselves, his speech pretty much consisted of "I'm Stephen Dalzell, I'm from <insert s
thole> and I'm six foot fall." Yes Stephen, you're six foot tall, well done on your crowning achievement, you've worked long and hard to be six foot tall, bravo.
Unsurprisingly, Maxwell, the head of PE, blew smoke up his arse that he'd be the fastest in school, then it was the district championships, he'd blitz the rest of NI then get into the GB Olympic team, he'd be the first white man since fk-knows-when to win gold at the Olympics.
Turns out, despite getting his own starting blocks (I did say he was a bellend, didn't I?), he wasn't that fast. This was proven on the rugby pitch one day when he broke though the opposing team with about 3/4 of the pitch to go before glory. A smaller, stockier kid, several pounds heavier and several inches shorter decided he wasn't having that and gave chase. From several yards behind, I brought him to the deck about five yards before the posts. Turns out he wasn't the fastest kid in schook at all, he wasn't even faster than me. Stephen Black turned out to be fastest, he didn't give a st though, he put more stock in performing in the classroom. This infuriated Stephen Dalzell who threw his starting blocks over a fence after failing to make the team for the district championships. The bellend.
thole> and I'm six foot fall." Yes Stephen, you're six foot tall, well done on your crowning achievement, you've worked long and hard to be six foot tall, bravo. Unsurprisingly, Maxwell, the head of PE, blew smoke up his arse that he'd be the fastest in school, then it was the district championships, he'd blitz the rest of NI then get into the GB Olympic team, he'd be the first white man since f
k-knows-when to win gold at the Olympics. Turns out, despite getting his own starting blocks (I did say he was a bellend, didn't I?), he wasn't that fast. This was proven on the rugby pitch one day when he broke though the opposing team with about 3/4 of the pitch to go before glory. A smaller, stockier kid, several pounds heavier and several inches shorter decided he wasn't having that and gave chase. From several yards behind, I brought him to the deck about five yards before the posts. Turns out he wasn't the fastest kid in schook at all, he wasn't even faster than me. Stephen Black turned out to be fastest, he didn't give a s
t though, he put more stock in performing in the classroom. This infuriated Stephen Dalzell who threw his starting blocks over a fence after failing to make the team for the district championships. The bellend. Edited by Papa Hotel on Sunday 27th November 15:44
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