TOO FAST FOR FOOTBALL

Adam Gemili has given athletic fans hope for the future after his silver medal run at Hampden Park yesterday. And what a nice young man he appears to be. Team mates at Dagenham and Redbridge FC, where Adam thought he might have a chance of a professional career, said he only had one speed; very fast-not necessarily ideal for football! Spotted by Chelsea at the age of eight, he spent seven years being coached by Eddie Newton, he but decided not to sign formally, when he realised he would have to change his education by cutting his days at school and not doing GCSEs properly. Later he shunned an offer from Reading so that he could complete a BTEC course at Dagenham College. Adam maintained his interest in football at Dagenham and Redbridge early in 2011, under John Still and then he played 11 full games at Thurrock on loan. In June 2011 he joined Blackheath and Bromley AC and a month later he was competing at the European junior championships in Talinn and by December he gave up his plan to play full time for the Daggers and the rest is history. He said that he only joined the athletics club to get fit for football.