Paris 2024: Gambia’s continental champions Gina aims for gold

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is the ideal athlete. In her country, she is seen as a messianic figure who had come to save what felt like a “failing” sport a few years ago and she has lived up to that quite well.

Bass also won the women’s 100m for the sprint double. “It has motivated young athletes that are really doing their very best to come up. I know it’s not easy,” she told Olympics.com. She started out early, first at primary school level and then junior high school in Brikama, a larger town near Tubakuta. “I started running when I was in primary school, like we have Junior Championships.

Côte d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure was who she settled on, and it came as a big surprise to her in 2020 when she beat her role model in the 60m dash at a World Athletics Indoor Tour meet by just 0.01s. Tokyo 2020 came around in 2021 and Bass was there again, this time with the aim of reaching a step higher than she had done in Rio five years earlier. In Japan, she was ready. She ran 11.16 in the 100m and then 22.68 in the 200m, reaching the semi-finals in both events.

 

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