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Here's a cyclist that's on his way up. His name is Devante Laurence and he is the son of CCN Sport Director Kwame Laurence. Thus far he is well on his way to becoming a talking point in the sport. Here's his journey so far creating waves as a junior champion in the region.
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00:00When it comes to sports in TNT almost everyone knows Kwame Lawrence, the sport
00:05director, the table tennis player, the ball thrower. But his son Devante Lawrence
00:09is quickly developing a name for himself. Emphasis on the word quickly. He's a
00:15cyclist that enjoys sprinting. It just worked out I did some duathlon as a you
00:22know a child in a primary school and it just worked out that my best aspect of
00:26the duathlon was the cycling aspect so I decided to you know focus on that
00:31because I was not very good at the running. So what events are you primary
00:35focusing on in cycling? I do the sprints so I'm a sprinter which consists of the
00:41match sprint, the Keren, sometimes the team sprint and the Kelo but mainly the
00:45match sprint and the Keren. It just so happens that today September 17th is the
00:59birthday of Devante Lawrence who turns 20 years old. It would be a birthday wish
01:05to improve on his personal best the time of 10.662 seconds in the flying 200
01:11meters. 10.650 for Devante Lawrence 10.650. So again another good time 10.650
01:22just a little faster than his 10.684. Sub 10 seconds is on his radar.
01:28However was it his desire to be a cyclist or was it because his father is
01:33a sport journalist that he had little to no option in the matter? It was not
01:37planned but I imagine because of the exposure I would have given them they
01:42too would be attracted to sport so yeah not a plan but it worked out that way. If
01:50they had refused would you have allowed it? Refused to take part in sport
01:55altogether? Well at a very young age children are guided I mean there would
02:02be a point at which they they would have that that option to say no but they
02:07got exposed at a very young age as you would know I'm involved heavily in table
02:11tennis and they would come out and it was never about a we're going to train
02:17we're going to have fun and table tennis while it has been my passion over the
02:22years I was very particular about not trying to force them into table tennis.
02:29For Devante lifting heavy things and going around in circles is what he does
02:34best but there's nothing monotonous in being repetitive for the cyclist who
02:39joined the sport at age 12. It's his consistency that puts him in the fray of
02:44potentially becoming the next big star on the track for TNT. I just have to work
02:50on my tactics I think I'm a strong cyclist but tactically I have work to I
02:55have work to do I think if I spend a lot of time racing improving my tactics I
03:01could get a lot of jump in a place months. So what's next for this young
03:06cyclist apart from a birthday party stay tuned as he rides into a new chapter
03:11Sergio Dufour TV6 Sport
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