During yesterday’s Sports Watch show, sports anchor Donavan Fulford asked the question where is the Beast, Yohan Blake?
Well, the 2011 World Championships 100m winner Blake believes he has overcome his fear of getting hurt again after opening his season with a 21.33-second clocking in the 200m at UWI Invitational last Saturday.
“To be honest, we are human and it did (the fear of injury affected me). But thank God I have people who have been working with me and I got over that. My mind is set on the goal at hand, which is the Olympics. So I am happy,” he told the Jamaican press.
Blake, joint second-fastest man of all time in the 100m and the 200m with 9.69 seconds and 19.26 seconds, is trying to come back from major hamstring injuries suffered in 2013 and 2014.
“Me and coach Mills have been doing some really good work on the track trying to get back the form in place which is going really well. So I am just working on that,” he noted.
Blake, 26, who became the youngest World champion at 21 years old, finished second behind his Racers Track Club teammate Warren Weir with 21.23 seconds at the UWI Invitational.
