Very often we hear people around us saying “set your goal and chase it until it is achieved”. Well, that's what Morolake Akinosun did.
“In 2016 I will be 22, graduated from a school I have not chosen yet, and going to the Olympics (:” tweeted Akinosun in 2011, even before the London Olympics Games. Five years later, the 22-year old Nigerian-American athlete who is set to graduate from Texas has achieved her goal.
Morolake Akinosun will travel to the city of Rio de Janerio in Brazil for the 2016 Olympic games as a part of the USA track and field 4x100 meter relay pool. The young athlete has already tasted success when she won the Gold medal for her country in the Pan-American games in 2015.
She is also the 2013 USA Junior Champion in the 100 metres event and 2013 USA Junior Silver Medalist in the 200 metres event.
In 2011, the year she posted the tweet, she clinched the gold medal 2011 AAU Junior Olympic in both the 100 metres and the 200 metres events. She is also only the second woman in history to score in four events at a NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Outdoor Championships in consecutive seasons.
Her career best record in the 100 metres category is 11.04 seconds, while it is 22.52 seconds in the 200 metres category. 22.52 seconds is also a school record for the 200 metres category. In the Olympic games next week, Morolake Akinosun would be hoping to better her records and win a medal for her country on the biggest stage of them all.
