Blessed Posted April 15, 2005 Youngsters carrying a torch for sport - they hopePOSSIBLE future Olympians met Sports Minister Richard Caborn at a visit to a Sheffield comprehensive. The Sheffield Central MP was at Abbeydale Grange School to meet some of its most talented young sports stars. Both Gerald Phiri, 15, and Abdi Risak Ahmed, 13, have an ambition to compete in the 2012 Olympics which London is bidding to stage. And these are no empty dreams. Gerald has a personal best of 10.89 seconds in the 100 metres, the joint fastest time in Europe for his age. Abdi is a middle distance runner who logged the fastest time for his age group in Britain in the 800m. Mr Caborn also met Thandi McNair, 15, a talented football player with the Sheffield United academy. He also heard of an initiative which helps older students improve their confidence by organising sporting events for younger pupils. "A group of Year 10 students has arranged an inter-form cricket tournament for the Y7s," said headteacher Chris Mallaband. "It's been so popular it's now been introduced to four of our feeder primaries, Abbeydale, Carter Knowle, Sharrow and Lowfield. "It isn't just the sport itself, the students have to take care of all the paperwork and administration too. It really is helping the older students," Mr Mallaband added. 10 February 2004 Source Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ADNAAN Posted May 7, 2005 Originally posted by Ameenah: Abdi is a middle distance runner who logged the fastest time for his age group in Britain in the 800m. Good luck to abdi, hope he becomes a beacon of success to other Somali youth just like Raageh omaar. There is also another little abdi (xuxu) in Cardiff whom I know very well and he is with Blackburn juniors at the moment. He joined us for a match one time and he was terrific. It looks like the U.K somalis won't be the unknown minority anymore. *Blackburn is a prominent British football club.* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
