In 2005, the IAAF World Tour, the Grand Prix of New York was sponsored by the famous sports brand Reebok, also known as the New York Reebok Grand Prix. In 2006, after Reebok was acquired by Adidas, it was renamed the Adidas Grand Prix again.

Icahn Stadium, named after American businessman Carl Icahn, who donated $10 million to the stadium, was built on the site of Downing Stadium and was renovated and reopened on April 23, 2005.

The Reebok Grand Prix in New York was the first international competition for Icahn Stadium, which, like the University of Oregon Hayward Stadium, achieved IAAF Level 1 certification for its track.

The New York Grand Prix was a stop in the IAAF Diamond League from 2010 to 2015 until 2016, when the New York Grand Prix was cancelled and held in Rabat, Morocco, for the first time in Africa.

On the afternoon of June 11, Icahn Stadium.

As one of the most important IAAF Grand Prix events in the United States, it was held in the metropolis of New York, and because of the time, June 11 was a weekend, and the number of spectators who came to watch the competition was only more than Eugene, not less than Eugene.

The strength of American sports is often reflected in these aspects. For example, large-scale tournaments such as rugby can even be watched by tens of thousands of people, and when they are broadcast live on local TV stations, they achieve extremely high ratings.

Although track and field events are not the most popular in the United States compared to football, baseball, and basketball, they still have many sports fans after a long period of sports culture.

"Yuse, I think you can seriously consider the suggestion we made to you, the Jamaican Athletics Association can't give better conditions, if you come to the United States, we can directly arrange a university for you, and even an Ivy League school is not impossible. Jamaica is too small, you're only going to waste your talent there, you deserve to be on a wider stage.

If you think about it, even if you don't want to change your nationality, you can still come to the U.S. for training. You're not the only track and field athlete in Jamaica, many of them are trained in the United States. Better equipment, better coaches, scholarships, and commercial contracts can all be further developed in the United States. ”

"Thank you for the advice, Mr. Smith, but I haven't thought about studying or training in the United States yet, I love Jamaica, and the winters in the United States are too cold for me to stand it. If you don't have anything else to do, I'm going to warm up, and my men's 200m race will start soon. ”

Yusse-Bot looked at the white man who suddenly came to the door, shrugged his shoulders, his expression was calm, and he didn't act at all because of what the other party said, turned his head and changed his clothes and shoes, and went directly to the track to start warm-up training.

Since 2002, he has seen all kinds of people who advertise themselves as professional agents, especially before the 02 to 04 Athens Olympics, it can be said that from time to time he can meet one or two people, who suddenly came out and said that they valued his talent and could take him to the United States.

Come on man, I'm an IAAF Rising Star Award winner and of course I'm talented.

And just after Eusse Bot stepped onto the track of Icahn Stadium, Glenn Mills looked at the Yankee who suddenly appeared with a big belly, shook his head slightly, and said, "Mr. Smith, I think you should come back at another time, we need to play soon." ”

Omar Smith smiled helplessly, he had done this kind of thing about running Jamaican athletes to train in the United States for an unknown number of times, and he thought it would be another hand-to-, but this time he lost unexpectedly.

For months, he tried everything from the coach to the agent to the athlete himself and his family, but the results were terrible, and Yusse Bot still didn't want to come to the United States to train and live.

The other party seems to have a special habit of staying in that little place in Jamaica.

If it was before the '04 Athens Olympics, Omar Smith would have almost given up on this amazingly talented black Jamaican, because at that time, the other party's results were getting better and better every year, and he was a rising superstar, and there were countless agents chasing around him.

But now, the other party doesn't have so much brilliance.

Probably like most athletes who become top stars, there are always some twists and turns in their formative journey. At last year's Athens Olympics, Yusse Bot was unexpectedly eliminated in the preliminaries, much to the delight of all those who supported him throughout Jamaica.

If you lose in a big event, whether you are due to personal pressure or an injury, in short, you don't live up to expectations, then the finger is naturally pointed at Yusse Bot himself.

Talented athletes seem to have become rats that everyone shouts at overnight, from newspapers to the Internet to online television, they dare not say that they are absolutely stinky, but they have failed the expectations of many people, which is an extremely terrible thing.

As far as Omar Smith knows, after the Athens Olympics, the other party even hid back to his hometown farm for a while, and privately rumored that Yusse U-Ute was crying because of the criticism.

After the silence of the Athens Olympics, an athlete who wants to get back on his feet has to train in various competitions in international athletics.

Omar Smith thought it would be a good opportunity to once again encourage him to leave the island of Jamaica, which is unimaginably attractive to young athletes in a big city as quirky as New York.

There are many reasons why the United States has become a great power, but in track and field, a very prominent feature is that they bring together the best athletes and coaches in the world, and there are many universities that study the ergonomics of sports.

I thought I would be able to move Yusse Bot this time, but damn it, it still didn't work.

This can't help but make him feel a little discouraged, the American homeland is good for good

There are many reasons for this, but Omar Smith doesn't believe that he is not used to the climate in the United States, and he thinks that there may be only one problem with failure, and that is that Yusse Bot himself took the initiative to change coaches.

And this coach is the fat old black man standing in front of him.

"Missed this opportunity, Yusse, he'll regret it!"

Omar Smith looked at the black man who had already left and headed to the runway for a human body, and instead looked at it seriously, and Glenn Mills, still reluctantly, said again.

Glenn Mills's name, as a sports agent who is biased towards track and field, has heard of it, and the other party is not from a professional background, but self-taught. In the eighties and nineties, it was not very conspicuous, but after the millennium, it gradually became quite famous.

Among them, the 2003 World Championships men's 100m champion, Kim Collins is his disciple.

"Trust me, he won't!" Glenn Mills looked at the American, who had been entangled for a long time, and replied lightly.

In fact, there is still a sentence in his heart that has not been added, "You should be the one who regrets!" ”

Thinking of this, Glenn Mills couldn't help but smile and shake his head again.

Yusse Bote, Jamaica's most talented sprinter in recent years, won the men's 200m at the 2002 World Junior Championships. By the time Yusse Bott was 16 years old, he was already able to run a record that Michael Johnson would only be able to run after he was 20 years old.

Such a talent is the focus of attention throughout Jamaica.

Glenn Mills didn't think to know about Euce-Bote, but after the loss in Athens, Euse-Bot insisted on proposing to the Jamaican Athletics Federation that he would change coaches.

Glenn Mills is actually a little strange, I don't know how this "thorn" plus "genius", who is still on the cusp of the Athens Olympics, likes him, but he does not refuse, but is extremely optimistic about this young athlete.

The two began chiropractic surgery in Germany last year, and the results are still unknown, but he believes that as a talented young athlete from Jamaica, sooner or later everyone will know him again.