RTC Sports have learnt through UK Athletics who have confirmed that teenage sprint sensation Delano Williams is eligible for the British Olympic team if he performs at the British trials in Birmingham in June.
The 18-year-old, from the Turks and Caicos Islands, received his UK passport on Friday confirmed by Rita Gardiner, having visited Britain only once, on a holiday to London.
He has already recorded a 200m Olympic ‘A’ UK qualifying standard time this year after running a personal best of 20.53sec at a meeting in Jamaica last month.
He has been invited by Usain Bolt’s sprint coach Glen Mills to join his training stable.
Currently studying in Jamaica, Williams won the 100m and 200m national high school championships over the weekend, beating the best young runners at the sprint capital of the world.
A native of the Turks and Caicos islands in the West Indies our status as a British Overseas Territory means Williams can switch allegiance under IAAF rules.
At the Olympic trials in Birmingham on June 22-24 he will face the likes of James Ellington (personal best 20.52sec), Marlon Devonish (20.19sec) and Christian Malcolm (20.08sec) – and may even kick one of them out of the Olympic squad.
Williams only has to finish in the top two in the 200m to make the team. He claims that when he ran 20.53sec last month he had not been doing any sprint training and believes he can run much faster.
Delano says he is ready and the TCI is ready, Go Delano, Go!!
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