Video: Jamaican hurdlers Parchment and Riley look ahead to World Championships

They are part of Team Jamaica, a team that gets the crowds excited, even those who hardly follow athletic competitions.

They are not the biggest stars, but they live, train, and fight along the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt.

“Bolt is a guy that we all look up to as one of the greatest in the sport. We learn a lot from him, he is cool in terms of motivating the younger ones to come up and work hard achieving their goals. It is always good to be around someone like this, you can learn a lot and move forward.”

“Well, I don’t really want to talk about what is concerned, I am not qualified enough to talk about it. But I think people should just try to be fair, and let the sport be free of this kind of things.”

“You know he is a team leader, you know, Usain Bolt he is a guy who has set the pace for everybody else. He is a role model to others and us. He is also a team mate, he is the one that sets the pace for the team.”

“People who take it deliberately, of course they take it because they want to enhance their performance, and those people got to get a severe ban, but you have people who might just be training, they got a trainer somebody prescribes something, they went to the doctor to get a cold medicine, so you got to set different rules and different punishments for these kinds of situations.”

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