games, and more-so the joy
that spread across Barbados
at the Saturday evening feat,
was erased next morning
with the news that Gale was
penalised and disqualified for
stepping on the inside line
of his Lane Five a few times
on the curve and coming off
the curve while entering the
home straight.
The Barbados Nation newspaper
has reported that since
then several United States
coaches sought out the
obviously talented sprinter,
who opted for Kansas State
where he is set to register in
August.
Seventeen-year-old Gale is
a student of the St. Michael
School in Bridgetown.
That school’s coach, Gabriel
Burnett, said that with
the rush of offers following
the Bahamas performance,
“we looked at the universities
that offered us and we went
with what we thought was
the best fit for Kyle.”
Burnett said, “the coach
came down here and he told
us, if Kyle is leaving in a year,
two years, three years, he
wants Kyle. Kyle is comfortable
with him. We know the
programme there.”
The scholarship includes
accommodation, tuition,
books, meals and a stipend.
Before his departure, Gale
is expected to thrill local
fans in March at the upcoming
Barbados Secondary
Schools Athletics Championships,
which will be followed
with CARIFTA Games in the
Cayman Islands at the end
of April.
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By George Alleyne
The young Barbadian runner,
Kyle Gale, who almost
broke an Usain Bolt record,
but for a technicality last
year has now earned himself
a four-year full athletics
scholarship worth $37,000
annually with Kansas State
University.
In April last year Caribbean
Life flagged Gale and
alerted readers to him as a
youngster to watch following
his performance at the
2018 CARIFTA games in the
Bahamas.
On March 31, the second
day of the event at the Thomas
Robinson Stadium, Nassau,
Gale burst into what he
and all fans thought was the
record books by breasting
the tape first in the Under-17
Boys’ 400 metres with a new
time of 47.07 seconds, eclipsing
Bolt’s 47.33 seconds set
in 2002.
The jubilation among the
Barbadian contingent to the
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Barbadian Kyle Gale at a secondary
school competition.
Photo by George Allayne
Talented Bajan runner
gets break at US university
We looked at the
universities that
offered us and we
went with what we
thought was the
best fit for Kyle.
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