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Olympic sprinter's talent spotted in bus chase

telegraph.co.uk — A young sprinter is on the edge of Britain's Olympic team - after a talent scout spotted him running for a bus.

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  • chocula78, on 06/15/2009, -2/+33This is similar to how my porn career got started when a casting agent saw me flashing elderly women on the street.
  • chopeh, on 06/15/2009, -1/+25I have noticed it, and that's why you're not in charge of my bar.
  • AmnesiacJack, on 06/15/2009, -1/+24If you're posting on Digg, it's too late.
  • Kewjoe, on 06/15/2009, -0/+23In other news, the British Olympic team also bolstered their 110m hurdle race while talent scouts watched a man flee police lastnight.
  • chopeh, on 06/15/2009, -0/+21I just have a garage.
  • borez, on 06/15/2009, -2/+22 I wish somebody would notice my natural drinking ability and put me in charge of their bar.
  • RackAddict, on 06/15/2009, -0/+18He still missed the bus, too. Can't be that quick then!
  • JustLoren, on 06/15/2009, -0/+15You can start training for the Olympics at 23?! Damn, I must have missed that memo. I wonder how late is too late?
  • dfross, on 06/15/2009, -0/+12He's 23 now, he was 19 when he got scouted.

    Still later than I would have expected, too.
  • borez, on 06/15/2009, -4/+13Actually, I run a nightclub... I was just being facetious.
  • cjh79, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7There are tons of faster sprinters than this guy. But they all caught the bus and are therefore doomed to a normal life.
  • inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6What a lucky SOB. Think of how many talented people there are out there in any sport who are simply outside the system. Maybe a lot of them are happy being out of the spotlight?
  • diggista, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5USAIN BOLT ONCE CHASED AND CAUGHT A JET PLANE
  • mijonju, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4oh... the flash
  • GodjustGod, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Would have been more impressive if he saw him running after snatching a woman's purse...heh
  • sjones, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Though if he'd caught the bus, he wouldn't have been able to talk with the track coach that saw him.
  • Acesolid, on 06/15/2009, -1/+4Run Jeffrey! Run!
  • diggadigga, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3"Then one day I was on my way to college and had to run after the bus. I must have been quite fast because a girl came up to me afterwards and asked if I ran with a club."

    . . . and then she sat on his face.
  • Loki101, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Missed the bus to college. Hopped onto one to the Olympics.
  • durant0s, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Is this the plot for Cool Runnings 2?
  • mojoel, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2That boy sure is a runnin' fool.
  • MrARPA, on 06/15/2009, -2/+4I have some trouble taking this at face value, has he never come into contact with school sports and PE teachers ? Surely he would have stuck out like a sore thumb at sports day ?
  • inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Multi-tasking FTW
  • pseudononymist, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1don't even get me started on their swim team...
  • Wickedest, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1As spectacular as this story is, even if he does make their Olympic team he won't make it out of the heats. Don't get me wrong, he's fast, but not really as fast as I feel the article makes him out to be.

    http://www.theworlds.org/athletes/biographies/coun ...
  • inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1The scout should be wait on various rush hour buses.
  • BingoPower, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1"Running for the bus" - by Willy Makeit. Illustrated by Betty wont.
  • SakuraMari, on 06/16/2009, -0/+0I have chased the bus past 2 stops and a roundabout on one occasion, and with a colleague, past 2 sets of traffic lights and a large intersection to the next stop on another.
    I was nicknamed 'greyhound' by the passengers on my school bus who saw me run to catch the lights before they changed after getting off the school bus too. I guess I was used to running fast to avoid the school bullies since middle school. There were no sports coaches to catch me running though. Maybe I was too fast for them, LOL. Or maybe just my city was too small for stuff like that.
    If I could join the Olympics though, I'd like to be a figure skater, coz there aren't any English figures skaters at the moment. Sorry to type such a long comment.
    I always caught the bus by the way. Now I'm in Tokyo, I find myself running for the train. Sometimes I miss it though. The train is too fast for me. LOL
  • mrbigglesworthg, on 06/15/2009, -6/+3lol wtf these talent spotters must be fast!!!
  • inactive, on 06/15/2009, -7/+0Call Linda @ 1-900-241-1920

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