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Cayman Islands
Olympic Team, Beijing 2008
After years of hard work in training and competition,
four athletes from the Cayman Islands competed at the Beijing 2008
Olympic Games in Track & Field and Swimming.
Ronald Forbes, 23, Track & Field
Ronald is a recent graduate in Liberal Arts from Florida International University
and trains in Miami.
Qualifying in mid-June for the 110 hurdles event, this was Ronald’s first
Olympic Games. On a daily basis, he continued to fight hard to step up his performance
for the Beijing Games. In early July he travelled to Columbia for another competition
in an effort to continuously push his time faster.
“Track and field is a lonely sport,” said Forbes. “You have
to sacrifice a lot such as spending time with friends and family, going to the
beach and a lot of other things in order to achieve something in this sport.
But you get out what you put in. People can help you, but the initiative has
to come from within you. I am trying not to get caught up in the limelight and
concentrate on making as many rounds as possible,” he said.
In round one Ronald ran a personal best time and set a new national record of
13.59 seconds, advancing him to round 2. In round 2 Ronald was performing well
when he hit the last hurdle that slowed him down, denying him a chance in the
semi-finals. Ronald will now focus on London 2012.
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