The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #13 - Rising Jamaican Track & Field Athlete Janieve Russell
The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant
Adrian Durant
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🗓️ 27 March 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, good evening and tonight on the home stretch with Agent Durant and I am Agent Durant. |
| 0:17.6 | We have another special guest, Janie V Russell, straight from Jamaica, live from Jamaica right now. |
| 0:23.9 | Thank you Ashley for joining us again as well. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi, Duane Janie. I'm Si, how are you? I can't complain. So this is our first time meeting, |
| 0:37.1 | but I know a little bit about you. So I'm going to read off your bio just a little bit. |
| 0:42.6 | 400 meter hurdle alert, Commonwealth game champion and the four hurdles and the four by four. |
| 0:49.1 | You are a Carift the Games champion. I remember the Carift the Games days. You are 2012, |
| 0:55.5 | I believe world junior champion and you are a silver medalist at the world champs in the mixed |
| 1:00.9 | relay. So quite some accolades you have there. So tell me how did you get involved with track and |
| 1:09.5 | field? I'm glad to involve in track and field. I very tender age. Jamaica is a country-born, |
| 1:17.6 | first-pores exercise track and field and my older sister she used to do track and field for her high |
| 1:22.7 | school. And you know this big event in Jamaica called boys and girls championship. Well, |
| 1:27.3 | she performed there and I saw on TV and I said, you know, I want to be like my sister because I |
| 1:32.9 | look up to her. So that's what I got involved. I got involved at the age of five. I thought it was five. |
| 1:42.7 | Yeah. I read five online. I want to call five, I would call five as seros because we have sports |
| 1:51.4 | day in the Caribbean. As you know, we just play the line rees, Cracus bags, so do call that seros. |
| 1:57.6 | But my seros starts at age eight when you went to primary champs going up to high school. |
| 2:03.2 | That's still a young age to be serious though. But Jamaica is the real thing. |
| 2:08.2 | That's right, everything. But isn't Jamaica is the real deal though? |
| 2:12.4 | You know, is it that? Is it that? Yeah. When you're a kid in Jamaica, is it that you see a path |
| 2:19.0 | forward to track? Like why is it that track is so big in Jamaica? Because it gets a lot of support |
| 2:27.2 | from the people. You know, when you go into the national system, it's packed computer football |
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