Damian Warner image courtesy of olympic.ca
As an advocate for #ldnont excellence, JBNBlog is embarrassed to admit decathlete Damian Warner’s brilliance at the 2012 London Games is a total surprise . . . go Damian is all I can say at this belated point on Thursday morning. Wow. You make us proud. Must tune in pronto.
*Better Late Than Never department.
Here is some background on Damian from the olympic.ca website:
- Born:
- 04/11/1989
- Gender:
- Male
- Height:
- 184cm
- Weight:
- 83kg
- Birth Place:
- London, ON
- Residence:
- London, ON
DAMIAN WARNER
ATHLETICS
PROFILE
Damian Warner will be making his Olympic Games debut in 2012 and will compete in the decathlon event after finishing first at the 2012 Nationals by setting a personal best of 8107 points.
The 23-year-old competed at the 2011 World Championships finishing 18th in the decathlon, which was his first international competition. In just his fifth ever decathlon, he won the 2011 Canadian Championships.
Along with the two consecutive gold medals that he holds at the Canadian Championships, Warner captured a silver medal in 2010.
Categories: General
London
Outstanding performance by Damian Warner. By definition, the decathletes are the greatest male athletes in the world.
I am already looking forward to 2016 when Damian is on the podium.
Thanks for this, Ken . . . 2016 will be exciting. Part of my admiration for Damian Warner this time around, aside from his excellence …. fifth! wow! . . . is his seemingly unaffected approach to the Games, to the sudden way he has become a star. Plus he played basketball for Montcalm not so long ago. Inspiring indeed.