Sensational Sobodu has got to leave
Straight after his Birmingham triumph with a championship best-equalling 100m time of 10.49sec '” the second fastest in UK junior history '” came the shock news.
Just as the town and Worthing Harriers were bursting with pride at a local athletics legend in the making, they found out that his family must leave East Worthing at the end of this month to be in his physiotherapist father Kunle's workplace of Colchester.
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Hide AdHis Harriers coach Alan Denyer, who discovered Sobodu little more than a year ago at a schools race, said: "It's bitter sweet: first the pleasure, then the pain."
For full report, see this week's Worthing Herald.