Olympians will take South Florida flavor to Beijing
Situated on Tue, Jul. 22, 2008
BY LINDA ROBERTSON Four years after he tripped over the last hurdle and failed to make fit for the Athens Summer Games by a piece of a second, Bershawn Jackson is going to the Olympics.
He's attractive Jesse Holt, his non-age coach, with him. Jackson presented Holt with a even ticket to Beijing on Tuesday. He's profitable Holt's expenses as a donation to Holt for the 30 years he has dedicated to the Northwest Press out Track Bludgeon in Miami's interior city.
It will be Holt's first skip to the Olympics, as well.
In Porcelain, Holt plans to gladness not only for his two former protégés, Jackson and Tiffany Ross-Williams in the 400-meter hurdles, at Fowl of the air's Nest Stadium -- but for all of Team Southern Florida.
An selective group of 19 athletes with ties to the Miami-Fortress Lauderdale-Occident Palm Strand megalopolis will show the U.S. during the Aug. 8-24 Olympics and fetch pride to the definite space where they honed their skills and dreams.
''From Moore Park to Beijing,'' related Jackson, who grew up in Self-direction City. ``As kids we used to flourish that we would be Olympians, and now we indeed are. It's going to be large to represent Miami to the creation.''
THE ATHLETES
Southern Florida's place of abode team includes Dara Torres, 41, the Supermom swimmer who came out of withdrawal to make her fifth Olympic team in the middle of awe and controversy. There's Miami Caloric guard Dwyane Wade and WNBA rookie center Sylvia Fowles of Freedom City, the first bearing player to dunk in elevated school.
Judoka Adler Volmar carried Haiti's droop at Opening Ceremonies in 1996. This duration, the Coral Springs heavyweight will exhibit the United States.
Seafaring man Anna Tunnicliffe and sailboarder Nancy Rios, diver Jevon Tarantino, soccer idler Jozy Altidore, tennis players Cytherea and Serena Williams, triathlete Laura Bennett and show jumper Laura Kraut have all lived or be alive in South Florida. Rim volleyball idler Misty-May Treanor is connubial to Marlins catcher Matt Treanor.
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