Oh my goodness! Wow I cannot believe that I am standing here right now, thank you so much to the Olympic Games for presenting this gold medal to me. This has been an inspiration of mine ever since I ran over my first hurdle. I am so honored to accept this gold medal for 100 meter hurdles. Thank you to all of my fellow components on the track for pushing me to work harder and run faster. You all did an astonishing job and competed well, I am so honored to have been able to race with all of you here in this beautiful city of Tokyo. Furthermore, I would like to present recognition to my all of family, who have been my crowd and fans since day one, but particularly my mother and father, Fernando and Melissa Ligori. Throughout
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He would put me to practice with the more experienced, upperclassman, which forced me to work harder in order to be able to compete with them as a freshman. He stayed late after practice to personally work with me on my hurdle form, good technique, starts, and speed. Overall, at the end of track season, Coach Carter helped me drop a total of 5.49 seconds from my original time. At my first track meet, I remember being overly nervous for my 300mH. I wanted to prove to Coach Carter that I was working hard and that his coaching was paying off. But, about three-fourths of the way done with my 300s, my trailing leg hit the hurdle while running over it, causing me to tumble onto the ground with a roll. In extreme pain and cuts all over I immediately looked back onto Coach Carter for advice, who was signaling for me to get up and continue. Despite the agony that I was feeling, I didn't want to disappoint Coach Carter, so I got up and began to run again; I ended up first in my heat. Waiting for me at the finish line was Coach Carter with some first aid equipment. As he was cleaning up my wounds, he said to me, “The hardest thing to do when you fall is to get back up and keep going. But you managed to do
He would put me to practice with the more experienced, upperclassman, which forced me to work harder in order to be able to compete with them as a freshman. He stayed late after practice to personally work with me on my hurdle form, good technique, starts, and speed. Overall, at the end of track season, Coach Carter helped me drop a total of 5.49 seconds from my original time. At my first track meet, I remember being overly nervous for my 300mH. I wanted to prove to Coach Carter that I was working hard and that his coaching was paying off. But, about three-fourths of the way done with my 300s, my trailing leg hit the hurdle while running over it, causing me to tumble onto the ground with a roll. In extreme pain and cuts all over I immediately looked back onto Coach Carter for advice, who was signaling for me to get up and continue. Despite the agony that I was feeling, I didn't want to disappoint Coach Carter, so I got up and began to run again; I ended up first in my heat. Waiting for me at the finish line was Coach Carter with some first aid equipment. As he was cleaning up my wounds, he said to me, “The hardest thing to do when you fall is to get back up and keep going. But you managed to do