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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