Ato Boldon
Ato Boldon
Ato Jabari Boldonis a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only three other men in history—Usain Bolt, Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis—have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the current Trinidad and Tobago national record holder in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64, 6.49 and 19.77 seconds respectively. He also held the 100m national record at 9.86, having run it four times, until Richard Thompson ran 9.85...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth30 December 1973
CityPort of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago
Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
My performances have finally caught up with my ego.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.
When the gun shoots, you got to go.
I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.
This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.
Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.