Akani Simbine’s Olympic journey has been one of near misses—it reached a boiling point last year. Despite a top-tier season, he left the Paris 2024 Olympics again empty-handed. A third straight Olympic final… and still no medal. He had looked as sharp as ever in the rounds, the hunger flashing in his eyes. But in the final? Fourth. Again. Just 0.01 seconds off bronze. Another heartbreak. Another national record. Another shake of the head. Well, Simbine isn’t letting that script write itself anymore. Not in 2025. And certainly not in Atlanta. What has changed?
The Akani Simbine, who scorched to a 9.86s win in Atlanta, isn’t chasing ghosts anymore. He’s chasing precision. “Um, it’s just working, you know, and just trying to improve every step that I can, and I think for me right now,” he said to CITIUS MAG
Continuing further, he said, “It’s just putting a big piece of the race together with my race and that’s what we’re doing, you know, as we know, it’s a long season, so it gives me a lot of time to actually work on that as well, so looking forward to that because it’s the time that we get to work on the first phase of the running, but happy with where we’re at right now and looking forward to it. Pretty good.”
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