« on: July 08, 2008, 08:56:13 AM »
After his World junior 800m record of 1:42.69 earlier this year, Abubaker Kaki has the potential to be one of the stars of next month’s Olympics, so one might wonder why the 19-year-old has chosen to line up at the IAAF World Junior Championships against athletes more than three seconds slower than him.
The answer lies in the fact that his native Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is yet to win a gold medal in these championships – and Kaki is keen to change that.
The World indoor champion astounded the athletics world with his run in Oslo last month when he became the fastest in the world for five years for the distance. Coupled with his win at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia in March, he is a hot favourite to win the two-lap event in Beijing.
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