by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on 7/30/2010
Source: Trinidad Express, July 30 -- Jehue Gordon was only 17 when the track and field world first took notice of him. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, he finished fourth in the men's 400m hurdles final in an impressive 48.26 seconds, missing out on bronze by three-hundredths of a second. At the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada, Gordon, now 18, hurdled to gold, becoming the first athlete from the English-speaking Caribbean to land the men's 400m hurdles title at the global under-20 meet.
He is one of 26 athletes whose journeys on the Road to London 2012 are being followed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its "World Olympics Dreams" project.
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