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Absolutely people let themselves down by hanging round the Olympic village, You go round there two weeks before, I don’t see the purpose. If you need to go there and focus, you’re in the wrong business.

— Félix Sánchez Felix Sanchez: The boy who started late, but bloomed into an Olympic great (2013)

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They have just built a new nine-lane Mondo track and that’s where we will train.

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It helped that no one came into the field, in the way that someone like Usain Bolt did, coming in and demolishing everyone.

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I never run for third. I always run to win.

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Most Dominican boys dream of being a baseball player and I was no different, I played baseball from six years old until 15.

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I don’t think I have to change my running technique that much, except the last two hurdles, where I should run 14 steps instead of 15.

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