He is the fastest guy on Earth in 2021 and one of Usain Bolt’s favorites to win the Olympic gold medal in the hundred meters in Tokyo.
And after running 9. 77 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year, Trayvon Bromell can end the racing drought in the U. S. U. S. , dating back to Justin Gatlin’s victory in 2004.
Bromell will aim for Olympic glory after years of batting injuries, adding an Achilles tendon tear at the 4x100m relay in Rio in 2016.
At the U. S. Olympics last month, he made it clear that his religion had taken him through dark times, writing “God is real” on his breastplate.
Bromell, who is five feet eight inches tall, won the events in 9. 80 to earn his place in Tokyo.
“All my life I’ve wondered why I didn’t have it like everyone else. Why didn’t I find money?” he wrote on Instagram after his victory.
“Why can’t I have my mom and dad under the same roof?Why do I have to watch my mom fight to make ends meet?I’ve sought to help people, but I never knew how I could do it!on the south side of St Pete Fl. where life is hard and there is no place for dreams (sic).
The 26-year-old grew up in Florida, where he earned prodigious skill at the best school in St. Petersburg, and won the 2013 Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year award.
It was in 2013 that Bromell became the first top-level student to cross the 10-second mark in the 100 m, with a time of 9. 99 s in wind and altitude in New Mexico.
He went to Baylor University in Texas, where he won the 2014 NCAA 100m championship as a freshman with an overall junior record of 9. 97.
The following year, he won the fastest-time indoor 200-meter championship in NCAA history and turned pro.
His preparation for Rio 2016 was hampered by a sprained Achilles tendon and, after qualifying for the Games, finished eighth and last in the 100-meter final.
After his relief injury, he underwent surgery, but still wasn’t feeling well and was forced to go under the scalpel for a moment, missing the entire 2018 season.
He returned to the track in 2019, but then suffered an adductor muscle injury in his upper leg.
Now that he is aiming for Tokyo, he says he needs other people to be informed of his struggle to achieve his goals.
“I need to be part of the team because I need to communicate about faith,” Bromell said. “I need other people to save their lives. There are many other people here who suffer from intellectual disorders and don’t perceive what to do. “you’ve the following.
“I’m going to be an icon and a dispatch that seems to keep fighting, no matter if the global issues are for you. “
Away from the track, Bromell is passionate about photography.
“It’s all I love, creating stories through photographs of other people and I love fashion. So it helped me make a lot of that creativity explicit,” he told Track.
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