When Adam Gemili settles into his blocks for the start of the gladiatorial contest that is the men's Olympic 100m, he will complete an extraordinary journey. For in just eight months, the teenager from Dartford, in Kent, will have gone from playing football before a few hundred people in the Blue Square Bet South league to running in the blue riband event of the London Olympics in front of a capacity crowd of 80,000 people - and a worldwide television audience that could top the billion mark. Fast show Adam Gemili wins men's 100 metres final at the World Junior Championships Should Gemili go all the way to the final on Sunday August 5, he can expect to line up in the Olympic Stadium against...
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