Boards
The 100m sprint
anyone know what time the final is tonight?
also anyone else read Darren Campbells column on the bbc? shit sounds intense!
"Now there are just minutes to go. When you go into the call room, you aren't allowed your headphones on, or your phone - and that's the beautiful thing. It's you, your thoughts and your demons.
"Maurice Greene used to stomp around the room, growling, making everyone nervous. It used to work - I would see people who were faster than me suddenly shrivel up and be watching him. You could see them thinking, Oh no...
"Now that's what sport is about. What do you have in your locker that others don't?
"I would lie there by myself with my feet up, humming to myself or singing, laughing like I was crazy. If you bow your head it's a sign of fear, so I would laugh. Then they would be thinking, what's he got to laugh about? "