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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
BERLIN: Shawn Crawford is one of the more colourful characters on the athletics circuit, but the man who glories in the nickname ‘Cheetah Man’ is hoping that he can upset the odds here and take the 200 metres title.
If that sounds an unlikely scenario given the current form of Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, his track record proves he is always up for a challenge. For the 31-year-old, 2004 Olympic 200m champion — a former training partner of disgraced sprinter Justin Gatlin — has previously raced a giraffe and a zebra in 2003.
The giraffe came off second best but the zebra overcame a slow start to beat the extrovert American — however that did not deter him from believing he could have had the zebra’s stripes.
“Tell the zebra I coulda whooped him,” he told ESPN the Magazine.
Crawford, who has also stated he wants to run in war paint, having already worn a Phantom of the Opera mask at a meeting in Milan, has also shown that he is not all bluster and self-promotion.
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