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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; text-align: left; ">All roads lead to London in 2012. Each athlete’s path is different. Each includes an important pit stop in New York at Icahn Stadium on June 9. The adidas Grand Prix and Milesplit bring you the story and the journey of four world-class athletes as they make their way through the biggest and brightest city in the world, headed toward the Olympic Games. For more information on the adidas Grand Prix, visit <a href="http://adidasgrandprix.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(172, 35, 58); ">adidasgrandprix.com</a>. Check out the <a href="http://www.milesplit.com/articles/series/150-adidas-grand-prix-elite-interviews" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(172, 35, 58); ">rest of the videos in the series on Milesplit</a>, which will be posted one per week leading up to the adidas Grand Prix.</em></p>
Kelly-Ann Baptiste is admittedly a shy person. Yet the 100-meter star, representing Trinidad and Tobago, is doing all she can to remain in the spotlight.
“I think in my event, especially, if you’re not really in it to win the thing then you start off on the wrong foot,” she said. “Obviously, I would like an Olympic gold medal. If I don’t get that, any color would be fine.”