Kudos to Donovan Bailey. Yes, the former World and Olympic sprint champ.
And not because he took time to appear on the HIGH SCHOOL SHOW heard today on the FAN 590. The 10-minute interview is on AUDIO at www.fan590.com
Bailey liked what he read in the Toronto Star about a high school sprinter Dushane Farrier from Neil McNeil in Toronto. How Farrier turned his life around, is now doing well in school, on the track and involved in a very successful school leadership program. He surprised Farrier at a practice and had a nice discussion with him.
When informed that stats from the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports still claim that some male teenagers are taking performance enhancing drugs, Bailey said those kids have “massive insecurity problems”.
Bailey said winning was fine, and that came from hard work, good nutrition and excellent coaching but stressed that “academics was essential and the driving force on how to be productive members of society”.
Nice to hear it from him but even nicer if the athletes understand his message.
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