Word: udo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his successful junior competition. Udo had intended to attend the London School of Economics and continue his track career with his local club. But when a Shaftesbury teammate convinced him to make the trip across the Atlantic. Harvard had its newest star...
...After two minutes of agonizing. I decided to come out to America for adventure." Udo explains. "I like challenges and variety...
...years later, he won the Senior National School Championship in the long jump, setting another record with a leap of 24-ft., 10 3/4-in, and earning an invitation to compete with both the British and the Nigerian Junior National squads. Udo opted to leap for the British team, but fell in a pothole and hurt his right ankle just before the competition and was forced to watch the meet from the sidelines. This was the first of nagging, untimely injuries that were to plague Udo throughout his leaping career...
...Udo certainly got both of those here in Cambridge. His first challenge was recovering from a broken ankle which he suffered when high jumping over his prefreshman summer. Doctors told him that he would never compete again, but after a lot of therapy and work. Udo was back on the runway in time to finish second at the indoor Heps...
That summer he returned to England and leaped over 25 feet, finishing second to the 1976 Olympic Champion. When Udo returned in the fall he began his most successful year here at Harvard, adding the triple jump to his repertoire, and set a school record...