He's taken a dip since rocketing to stardom as a lightning-quick schoolboy sprinter. As he steels himself for the Commonwealth Games, he's spilled on his plan to reboot his career. 9WWOS CommonwealthGames
Hale, now 24, is yet to don green and gold at a major championship as an individual athlete.Jack Hale has taken a dip since rocketing to schoolboy stardom eight years ago, but he's yet to give up on snagging an individual spot for Australia at a major championship.
The schoolboy who finished second in the 2014 race blitzed by Hale was Rohan Browning — the larrikin with a flying mullet whoHale's quickest times of 2014, 2015 and 2016 topped those of Browning, and he still holds the under-18 national record — a 10.38 registered in Perth in 2015. Hale produced the quickest Australian time of 2020, but Browning hit back with the top-12 times of 2021."I didn't come back in 2021 in the best shape," Hale said."I sort of rocked up in 2020, best shape of my life, sixth-fastest of all time and then with things cancelled you obviously put things back into a training perspective trying to move forward, but things didn't happen in 2021. I think it just piled up on that.
"I think me as an individual can do that. Look, in two years' time, if I can't be doing that, that's not where I want to be at in this sport. It'll be 10 years in 2024 since I started. If I can't be making the Olympic team in that 10.00-9.00 shape I'm doing something wrong."
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