When Oblique Seville was 10, he told his mother he wanted to be trained by Usain Bolt’s coach Glen Mills. That came to pass when he joined the famous Racers Track Club in Jamaica. Now, on a night of exhilarating speed and twisting drama, he achieved a far bigger dream and emulated his hero by becoming the 100m world champion.
To make it even sweeter, he delivered the greatest performance of his career in front of Bolt himself, who was cheering and punching the air like a superfan as Seville ran down his fellow Jamaican Kishane Thompson in the final metres to secure gold in 9.77sec.
