Great Britain's Adam Gemili is our Amsterdam Focus today, a sprinter who is looking for his third European gold medal in Amsterdam.
It was cold, there had been rain, and the conditions were hardly ideal for an electric piece of sprinting. But Adam Gemili did not mind one bit.
He flew from his blocks in lane four of the 200m at the Zurich 2014 European Athletics Championships and no one could touch him, not even the brilliant Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre on his inside.
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Gemili won in 19.98, equalling his personal best with a time and a victory that he could not believe. At the finish, he looked around, mouth open in amazement at his run, before breaking into a big smile.
If Gemili ever needed an assurance that swapping a career in football for one in track and field was the right move, here it came in Zurich.
Two years on, having then led Great Britain’s men to the 4x100m gold, Gemili, 22, is back at the European Athletics Championships, where this time he will run the 100m and relay.
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Even though he is the European 200m champion, it is at the 100m where he made his name as European junior silver medallist (2011), world champion (2012), European under-23 champion (2013) and Commonwealth Games silver medallist (2014).
Taking himself beyond the 10-second world-class barrier with 9.97 last summer, Gemili proved he can deliver the times aswell as winning the medals.
A brilliant example of his explosive pace came on the anchor leg of the relay in Zurich when he led Britain to gold.
As Gemili collected the baton from Richard Kilty, Germany’s Lucas Jakubczyk, on his immediate outside, was a small stride ahead and looking a real danger.
But Gemili just pulled away, arms and legs pumping furiously and with only gold on his mind.
And now in Amsterdam, he is back for more.
ADAM GEMILI AT THE ZURICH 2014 EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
200m final (15 August)
1. Adam Gemili 19.98
2. Christophe Lemaitre (FRA) 20.15
3. Serhiy Smelyk (UKR) 20.30
4x100m relay final (17 August)
1. Great Britain (Ellington, Aikines-Aryeetey, Kilty, Gemili) 37.93
2. Germany 38.09
3. France 38.47