Assignment #6- Blck History Month

For my Black History Month assignment, I have chosen Donovan Bailey. Who is a Canadian Olympic gold medalist.

Donovan Bailey was born in Manchester,Jamaica. He came to Canada at the age of thirteen with his mother. He was very successful in running track but he spent most of his time playing basketball. When he graduated high school he went off to college. After graduating college he became a successful stockbroker. While he was watching a Canadian track and field championship, he noticed that some of the athletes on the team were his high school classmates that he beat in running track.

So he started running 100 metre and excelled in them, he later then joined the national Canadian team. Later then he met a coach named Don Pfaff at the 1993 world championships, and saw his talent, and self confidence. He invited Donovan to train with him at Louisiana State University, he took the offer.

Wins after wins. He began to dominate every championship his team entered. Then came the 1996 summer Olympics where he broke a world record. He ran only 9.84 seconds also winning the gold medal.

I chose Donovan bailey because I thought he did many great things and became successful and fulfilled what he is good at. He has a lot of great things to be proud of.

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