All right, all right. Welcome to the home stretch with Adrian Dorette. I am your host, Adrian Dorette. And joining me today is Jamaican Olympian Olympic medalist and world champion, Alien barely. How you doing, Alien?

I'm doing good. How about you? I can't go playing. Thanks for joining me. You're welcome. It's been a minute and a minute. It's been a long time. I mean, it's crazy that it's 2021. Like that's, can't believe how long ago it was. So, Alien, we went to college together. We went to the University of South Carolina. I know you could have guessed right every. I can't help that this team just had so many amazing people. I don't think one team supposed to be that stacked. I got right.

Special like that. It's way too many medalists on one team. But I went to college together in Alien in 2004. Alien was able to represent Jamaica at the Olympic Games, where she won a gold medal in the 4x1. Amazing, amazing. Be in up on the USA. Should I say as usual? I'll say as usual.

So, Alien, you're from Jamaica. I looked at, I was looking at your stats. You have so many medals. I have to pull it up because I couldn't memorize. It was like, you have, you have four golds at the CAC juniors, 10 golds combined at the Krifter Games. 10.

That's a lot.

I was, Anna Silver and Abrahan, I will mention the Silver and Abrahan's gold, of course, in the 2009 World Championships and gold in the 2004 Olympic Games, including being a two-time Olympian,

and the best in 100 meters, 11, 04, and 22, 33, and 200. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Okay. How'd you get started in track? Because, you know, I know you're in Jamaica. So, like, what happened? What was the choice?

Track was 30. Really? Yeah, so, I, I was actually thought that when I was 10. Oh, wow. So, I became gangster and angry. So, I was like, really bad at school. And I, I pretty much was in fights, but it was always boys. That was just me.

Wait, okay. Okay. So, traumatic experience and you were lashing out. Yes, I was. And I guess Jamaica at that point, did you feel like, and I know how I'm from the Caribbean too. So, I know, like, a lot of times that stuff can happen and no one even hear you or, or, like, did you feel like you could speak up then when that happened to you?

Yeah, I just thought that I was not in trouble. Yeah, they would have blamed you. Yeah. Yeah, that's unfortunate. I just bled because I was like a regular tomboy and my mom, like, I felt sick, so my mom would.

She gave me a bath and she was like, I keep telling you to stop climbing trees. I just blame the tree. Oh, wow. She didn't know she just thought, like, I hurt myself. So, I'm always in a tree. I'm not going to do anything tree. Just a tree. Oh, wow. So, I thought it was an injury. Yeah. So, so I just went with the the tree thing.

And I didn't like start talking about it until like, I just wait like I was like, older, and my friends are about me to start talking about.

Oh, really? Yeah. You know, I think a lot of times we're dealing with trauma. We don't even know it.

You know, until we look back like, man, I had some some stuff going on.

Like, she got me to see that like me talking about mine will help some young person. Yeah, absolutely. Actually went through the same thing and is able to be able to talk about it without the fear of some or.

Because there's like so much avenues for somebody. A kid to like reach out and talk. So now, yeah, yeah, absolutely now. And that's a that's a change for the better.

And then in the Caribbean, like I said, you know, you know, Caribbean culture is a little. Yeah, it's like it's like, I think they make it okay.

Because they blame the big David Tim blame. Yes. It's always what you do. It's what you wear what you wear.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And so for you, track was an outlet. You were able to set a fight in to get that energy out that aggressive that question out. It was track. Yeah. My teacher made me my when I my teacher sent my teacher and primary school when she sent that I was getting about to like get mad.

She would like say, for a run. We have a big deal here. So I initially started off as a cross country running.

You know who else told me that? I just spoke to Dwight Phillips. Can you start as cross country? You all better stop saying that people going to date. How you get fast running cross country.

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