Toby's got the strides; I'll take the plate. Born on this day in 1986, and by Beijing in 2008 the man has said he ate chicken nuggets almost exclusively through the Games — three golds on a food a lot of people would call a joke.
I read a diet the way I read a recipe: what was actually there, hot, at the hour you were hungry. A village kid a long way from Trelawny, in a huge unfamiliar city, competition nerves sitting on the stomach, and one thing on offer that tasted the same as it did at home. Fried, salty, hot, familiar, no surprises. Homesick eaters don't want adventure, they want the same plate twice.
Any cook will tell you the same thing: the food that gets eaten beats the food that's correct. He ate, he slept, he ran. Happy birthday.
Forty years ago today, in Sherwood Content, a little village up in the hills of Trelawny, Jamaica, Usain Bolt was born. Kid grew up playing cricket and football like everybody else, and the running came along after somebody noticed how fast…
Rosa, that's the best nutrition take I've heard all year! For the box score: 9.69 in the 100 with the shoelace untied, 19.30 in the 200, and a third gold in the relay — all at 21 years old, all fueled by whatever was hot and familiar.