University of Texas graduate believes she has the ability to take on the best athletes in the world as the Paris Olympics looms largeRhasidat Adeleke: in the Bahamas, her 400 metres split time of 48.45 seconds in the mixed relay was the fastest ever recorded at the World Relays.
Her degree is in Corporate Communications, and she’s already thinking about a MA in Finance in another year or so. Only for now, everything is building towards the“I was in a heavy training cycle, had a fast session of 200s on the Thursday and that whole week I’d been doing a lot of sessions. The first 4x4, I went in a little scared, I didn’t know where I was going to be. Then to split a 49 and then 49 again and went faster again, and it helped build my confidence.
“Once you have confidence, I feel like you can take anybody down. My goal is to go in there open minded, don’t be scared of any big name, don’t give them too much respect. “I think I am growing as an athlete, getting out there more, and I definitely appreciate that,” she says. “There are so many spectacular athletes in this sport, so to be able to be recognised as one of the up-and-coming athletes to look out for, that definitely gives me some extra motivation, to make sure I live up to that.”