The 110 m silver medalist of 110m Olympic and the double world champion talk about how he first saw the prodigious teenage talent of Devon
Colin Jackson has revealed the moment he was taken back to training by a young athlete named Joshua Taylor.
In an exclusive interview with Tim Hutchings, part of our new Legends series, the 110 m silver medalist of 110m Olympic and double world champion explained that Taylor “will be really good” and that the “power team could”.
Jackson helped training Andy Pozzi, but after the 2018 world interior champion retired last summer, he seemed unlikely that the 58 -year -old continued training. That was until he saw Taylor, who is based on Devon and has a better personal brand of 13.72 in the 110m obstacles at the level of children under 20 years.
“I saw this young man from Devon named Joshua Taylor and I saw him about these barriers,” Jackson said. “He let me fly. I was like ‘Oh friend, what have you done’? Pozzi told me that Josh was a talent and that I thought ‘yes, I think it will be really good.’ I thought we could really work on a child. Oung.
“I really wasn’t sure what I was going to do. I love the fact that I can get involved in Josh’s training along with his Devon coach, Lee [Farleigh]. That in itself is brilliant, since we can join and take it to the best it can be.
“When I started working with him, I thought I could do the Olympic Games. Then, on time, I realized that I could probably do the 2028 team. If things are going well, it should be an Olympic finalist.”
There is no doubt that Jackson’s experience is likely to be beneficial for Taylor. In the 1993 World Championship in Stuttgart, the British established a world record for 110 m 12.91 obstacles, which lasted until 2006, when Liu Xiang recorded 12.88 in Lausana.
Jackson, trained by Malcom Arnold, also obtained a world title of 110 m obstacles in Seville 1999 and claimed a silver medal of 110m Olympic obstacles in Seoul 1988. He was now transmitting the orientation he received and inspiring the next generation.
“I worked hard and there is no doubt about that,” Jackson told Hutchings. “Anyone who worked by my side also knew that I was also really focused on the game. I married that with my skills, good training partners and a great coach, so you really have the dream team. For me to win, it was” why aren’t you winning? “More than ‘you are winning.’
“I was doing my best.
After retiring from the competition two decades
So, your track success in a period of 18 years translates into activities in which you participate after hanging your peaks?
No, “said Jackson. “That was a very fast answer! Again, you must be real. When you are achieving things like this, the chans who do it are minimal or non -existent to be honest. In athletics you are defined no.” I am the best. ”
“When you talk about football, you have this debate about Cristiano Ronaldo v Lionel Messi. People always ask ‘Who is the best’? When you break the world record or a belly an Olympic or world champion, you are the best on the planet of this planet or this plan of planet or this plan of planet or this plan of Planet Planumet.
“Now, I don’t see that people say you are