"In an interview to celebrate his victory, Seville is asked if he were to design a sprinter what would he look like? The questioner expects a long answer. Perhaps Justin Gatlin's start, Michael Johnson's mentality, and Bolt's leg speed? But one word comes back from Seville's mouth almost instantaneously. Usain. There's never been anyone like him, has there? No, acknowledged Seville. But I would take his last part of his race and my start. Then you would have the perfect sprinter."
"In my opinion, it's just only a matter of time before someone is going to run 9.6sec, he said. I don't think we are far off in this generation. It just takes us time. Because you have to understand, it was the same back then. No one was running 9.6 until Usain Bolt put his foot in Beijing. So it's for us now, as a new generation, for us to just meet that step."
Oblique Seville won the men's 100m world title, becoming the first Jamaican since Usain Bolt to do so. Seville immediately named Usain as the template for an ideal sprinter, saying he would take Bolt's finish and his own start to form the perfect sprinter. Seville disagrees with Bolt's view that the current generation lacks the talent to run 9.6 seconds, asserting that it is only a matter of time. Seville ran a personal best of 9.77sec to win gold in Tokyo. Seville is notably smaller than Bolt and prepares mentally by reading the Bible. Both athletes share coach Glen Mills.
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