Jeremy Bascom, Central Park’s Track Club, New Balance star sprinter, fresh from equaling Guyana’s national 100m record of 10.19 seconds at USATF’s Club Nationals, in Omaha, Nebraska on July 6, went into the London Olympics overly confident that amongst other things, he would leave London as the sole owner of the title he shared with James Wren Gilkes.
But a bum Achilles tendon and tightness he felt at the start prevented that from happening.