Usain Bolt: A Brief Biography

Louis Zamperini, the main character of Laura Hillenbrand’s biography Unbroken, led a promising running career in his life prior to his military service and captivity. In 1931, Louis was encouraged to join the Torrance High School track team by his older brother, Pete. Running came easily to Louis, and became a force to be reckoned with rapidly in the racing world, dropping his mile time to just under five minutes by 1933. He gave some of the fastest men in the country a scare at the 1936 Olympic Trials when he nearly beat Don Lash, America’s fastest runner of the 5,000 meter race, and proceeded to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Aside from the resounding fame that his running career provided him, it also instilled discipline, dedication, and astounding willpower that followed him through his life.

By remembering, she helped five other children involved in wars to raise them better than how she had been raised. This illustrates the theme that remembrance is important to the

Louis trained day in day out for this event. He trained harder than he had ever trained in his life. He was determined to win gold. Hillenbrand describes his training. She says, “He trained so hard that he rubbed the skin right off one of his toes, leaving his sock bloody.” The moment he has been waiting for has finally arrived. Louis Zamperini is about to compete at the 1936 Olympics. He is getting himself situated at the start line, the gun goes off, and he’s off. In the middle of the race, Louis is about to take the lead when many other runners box him in with their shoulders so he can’t gain a position. A man stomps on his foot, making the spike of a shoe stick into his toe. A little later, a runner in front of his begins throwing his legs back, hitting Louis in the shines with his metal spikes. Finally, another runner elbows Louis’ ribs so hard he could feel one crack. With bruised toes, bruised shins, and a cracked rib there is no way he can finish in the top 3. Louis is on his final lap and even out of breath, he is determined to finish this race that he trained so hard for. He steps over the finish line, recording the fasted final lap ever. He didn’t finish where he would’ve liked, but he finished 7th and eventually receives a congratulations

“He certainly doesn’t get it from me,” I say grinning from behind the zoom lens of my Cannon Rebel T3 digital camera, used to hearing this about my dark haired, eldest twin son. Despite the fact that his 4 feet, 10-inch frame made him the shortest Panther on the field, he was by far the fastest. “Give me a 5k or 10K and I’ll run happily, but can’t sprint to save my

“He runs, real, real, real fast.” In “Ghost; Running For His Life, Or From It?” by Jason Reynolds, Ghost is trying to decide if running track will help his life become better. He steals a lot, and get in trouble for it. The track team helps him realize that he doesn't need to steal anything, anymore. When the team helps him decide that he won't steal any more, at first he doesn’t like it, but eventually he likes it. It helped him realize that stealing doesn’t make things better, but it makes it worse.

Shaun Roger White was born on September 23, 1986 in San Diego, California. His parents were Cathy White and Roger White. He also had two siblings named Kari White and Jesse White. By the time Shaun was born Jesse was 7 years old and Kari was a 1 year old. Shaun was the youngest child out of his brother and sister. Shaun's dad was a great surfer in the olden days and Shaun's grandmother and grandfather were famous and professionals at roller derby.

Initially a very rebellious child, he constantly steals from neighbors and gets into trouble. Then, his brother, Pete, introduces him to track, and he falls in love with it. He devotes most of his time to it, constantly training: “He came home with a mania for running. All of the effort that he’d once put into thieving he threw into track.” (Hillenbrand 17).

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He popularizes it with the things he has done and he produces world records. Usain has also boost programs like ESPN and Sports Center, and was named twice sportsman of the year(“ISPORT”) . Usain is one of the most known sprinters in the world, and he holds world records and does everything with ease. He runs the 100meter as well as the 200meter. Usain also runs the 4x100 meter witch is a relay with three other runners. One runner runs the curve or the straight away once, and then hands off a

The sound of a gunshot fills the eerie silence the runners face the starting line. Jim Whites heart is racing because everything his boys have trained for could be gone within a millisecond. His team starts running and now Jim is left to see if the hard work will pay off. This is the moment they have all been waiting for.

The 2 minute gun went off! It wasn’t time to be sentimental, that wouldn’t win the day for us, but we all had the same thought on our mind: “Win this race for Andrew.” And before we all knew it, there we were, on the starting line about to run our race, and a few seconds later, Crack!, another pistol shot and the race had begun. Honestly, while I run my races, I tend not to think. I usually have a fairly catchy metal track glued to my head and I tend to only replay the song constantly in my mind until I would hit the 800m mark and my instincts would fire up my adrenaline. Today’s selection was Day by Day by Miss May I, and much like the namesake of the song, I tried to run my race stride by stride with all the heart and ability I could possibly give. I don’t remember finishing, but I do remember being handed the boys JV champions ribbon. As cliché as it might sound now, the Liberty Lions walked away from their home invite with some definite pride, and I have no doubts Andrew was smiling down on

Based on a true story, Cool Runnings is about four Jamaican athletes going to the extremes to be able to compete as bobsled racers in the 1988 Calgary Olympic Games. In the beginning of the film, three Jamaican sprinters, Derice Bannock, Junior Bevil, and Yul Brenner, try out for a spot on the Jamaican Olympic team for the summer games. Junior Bevil unfortunately trips and falls during the race and brings Derice Bannock and Yul Brenner with him. Derice Bannock’s dream was to win an Olympic gold medal, but losing the try-out race ruined his chances of achieving that goal. Derice had to win the gold, so he found a brand new Olympic event to Jamaica known as bobsledding (Amazon).

The main character, Malik, is a cocky African American track star that thinks everyone has it easier than him. He feels that the world owes him something, but almost everyone in it will work to hold him down. Epps has made a living portraying one type of athlete or another, but this is probably his best work because he creates a character that can be very accurate and likeable one minute, but totally juvenile and wildly frustrating the next. He struggles throughout the movie, but like the Fredrick Douglas quote used here says, "without struggle there is no progress." Malik really grows up a lot because the three main people around him are good influences. Malik Williams (Omar Epps) fits the traditional athlete type: cocky and arrogant. An urban black male on a partial track scholarship, Malik is at school to run, not learn. His attitude is that the world owes him, not the other way around. The reality that he can lose comes as an ego-bruising lesson.

Every year during track season when the long distance runners go off and run their miles, the sprinters stay behind and condition. We have to practice and perfect technique. Sprinters

and the vastly overpowering “Bang” of the gun cut off my dialogue, as well as sending me and the other runners dashing to the finish line. I took a different approach to running this relatively small 200 meter distance than I did in my previous race. Instead of a slow start and building up to a sprint, I took off as fast as a cheetah. As I turned around the large corner, I see another runner quickly closing in on my location. I concentrated what little energy I had left into winning this race. However, my efforts were not enough to overcome the other runner, and I bolted across the finish line with 2nd place.