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Jamaican Olympic 100m star Oblique Seville bore it all, stating his lessons learned this season and being ready for the challenges next year.
Noah Lyles' biggest nemesis, Oblique Seville is only maintaining positive thoughts ahead of having a massive 2025 season, stating he is generally prepared for the challenges next year.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with jamaicaobserver.com, Seville opened up on his disappointing outing in the Olympic final and how he has worked on himself to turn things around next season.
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"You have to move past that because that is just a thing of the past, and moving forward, you just have to make up for the mistakes you made last year (2024) and put it into this year and just move forward,” said the Jamaican Olympic star.
“You cannot dwell on the past forever because the past is going to be past, so you just have to focus on the present.”
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Seville is one of Jamaica's current crop of top sprinters and was favoured to win a medal in the men’s 100m event in the French capital. However, he pulled up just before the finish line due to a groin injury and ended up eight - a race won by US sprint king Noah Lyles, who the Jamaican had beaten in the semifinals and earlier in the season at the Racers Grand Prix.
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It was his third consecutive disappointment in a major championship final, having finished fourth at the 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships in Eugene and Budapest.
Despite his shortcomings in championship finals, the 23-year-old has maintained fast times each season, proving he's among the world's fastest sprinters.
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Before Paris, Seville clocked a personal best of 9.81s, which ended as the joint fourth-fastest time in the world this year), only behind his world-leading compatriot Kishane Thompson (9.77s), Noah Lyles (9.79s), and Ferdinand Omanyala (9.79s).
This being a positive already, the talented sprinter coached by the legendary Glen Mills also noted that his background work in training has been on point, he has been putting in a lot of effort in practice and is feeling good about his progress.
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“Mentally, I will be okay because I have a strong team around me and my mental state is actually good because I can bounce back from this,” he added.
“I have seen what happened and I know what to do to prevent it from happening again, so everything is going to be good next year. Training has been good so far, and I am just taking it step by step each month, to see all the progress I can make,” he concluded.
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