Zambia’s Nanjing Olympic Gold Winner Targets 2020 Games
LUSAKA (Xinhua) -- Zambia’s only gold winner at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games has set his sights at winning the country more medals at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games, the Times of Zambia reported.
Sydney Siame won a gold medal in the 100m at the Youth Olympic Games last month. The other medal Zambia managed to grab was a bronze in judo.
The 16-year-old racing prodigy said he will stick to his development program of focusing on the future and ruled himself out from challenging for gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
"I am not looking at the 2016 Olympics. I am sticking to my development program which is the 2020 Olympics and also the 2024 Olympics. God has been kind to me and I pray he will continue to be so in my future," he was quoted as saying by the paper.
He said he still needed time to develop further in his career and would stick to his program of developing his career.
The young runner is one of the upcoming runners being groomed under a specially tailored program under the Zambia Amateur Athletics Association (ZAAA) as part of its talent identification plans.
Elias Mpondela, the president of the athletics' body said he was happy that all the junior runners who participated at the Nanjing Youth Olympics did well as they all reached the finals even they failed to finish in the top three.
The 16-year-old racing prodigy said he will stick to his development program of focusing on the future and ruled himself out from challenging for gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
"I am not looking at the 2016 Olympics. I am sticking to my development program which is the 2020 Olympics and also the 2024 Olympics. God has been kind to me and I pray he will continue to be so in my future," he was quoted as saying by the paper.
He said he still needed time to develop further in his career and would stick to his program of developing his career.
The young runner is one of the upcoming runners being groomed under a specially tailored program under the Zambia Amateur Athletics Association (ZAAA) as part of its talent identification plans.
Elias Mpondela, the president of the athletics' body said he was happy that all the junior runners who participated at the Nanjing Youth Olympics did well as they all reached the finals even they failed to finish in the top three.