‘Natural talent’ Morro has potential to better golden boy Allan Wells

BILL Walker never met Allan Wells, inset, as a teenager, so while he can’t compare the two sprinters’ teenage performances on the track directly, he said he believed Morro Bajo’s potential could exceed that of the 1980 Olympic gold medallist.

He said: “I only knew Allan at the latter end of his career but Morro’s got more natural talent. Allan worked hard to get where he went. He wasn’t a natural sprinter. He started off on long jump and then went to 200 metres and 100 metres.”

At 15, Morro’s current personal best for the 100m is 10.94 seconds, set at the Gambian all schools championship, compared with Wells’ best of 10.11 seconds. In the 200m, Morro has clocked 22.56 seconds, short of Wells’ 20.21 seconds.