Sales grew fastest in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, up a currency-adjusted 23.5 percent, boosted by Puma’s sponsorship of five national teams at Euro 2016, including quarter-finalists Italy, plus players like Griezmann and Portugal goal keeper Rui Patricio. However, once he gets there, there’s only 24 minutes that likely separate Burroughs and his dream of a second Olympic gold medal.
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Sporting a white T-shirt with the words “The Four Greatest” over pictures of Bolt, tennis star Novak Djokavic, swimmer Michael Phelps and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, Silva waited 12 hours at the gate of Jamaica’s pre-Olympic base with one thing on his mind – meeting Bolt and securing an autograph from the world 100m and 200m record holder. “It is what I want as well so I’ll work hard to maintain my focus to clinch the gold medal”, he said.
“But I think always, in 200, there’s room for running faster”. “(The men) have really unperformed this season, but I’m sure when we get to the Olympics it won’t be like that”.
Ashton Eaton will take some stopping in the men’s decathlon, while countryman Christian Taylor is eyeing a world record in the triple jump and New Zealander Valerie Adams will be expecting to win a third straight gold medal in the women’s shot put. “So this is why he tells me to stop talking about retirement and just take it a year at a time”. He’s been the most must-see athlete in track and field for the last eight years and has become a world-renowned icon because of the Olympics.
But Coe is also the man tasked with making track and field “more exciting”, as Bolt explains.
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“The thing I like the most about him is the way he runs and the way he feels about himself”.
