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The Olympic Games serve as the world\u2019s biggest showcase of sporting talent.<\/p>

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For the Caribbean region, when we hear Olympics, the sport we mainly think about is track & field.<\/p>\n

With the region\u2019s rich and storied history of success in the sport, gold, silver and bronze medals are often used to measure the success of respective athletes.\u00a0 It is, however, far from the only stand.<\/p>

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For some countries, having a representative on the biggest global track & field stage in the world is worth just as much or more than any individual medal.<\/p>

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Antigua & Barbuda is one of those countries and the athlete who has represented them the best on the big stage is sprinter Daniel Bailey.<\/p>\n

Bailey, the 100m sprint specialist, has represented his nation in four Olympic Games and five World Championships.<\/p>

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His best result came at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n

The headliners were Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt and defending double sprint champion from the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Tyson Gay.<\/p>

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In the fastest race in history, Bolt ran 9.58 to destroy the world record, Gay ran an unbelievable 9.71 to finish second and Asafa Powell finished third in 9.84.<\/p>

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Bailey just narrowly missed out on a historic medal for Antigua & Barbuda, finishing fourth in that race with a time of 9.93.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t his first major championship appearance, but it was also when Bailey became a household name in men\u2019s sprinting.<\/p>\n

However, Bailey\u2019s first time representing Antigua and Barbuda on the biggest stage of global athletics came five years earlier in 2004.<\/p>\n

As a 17-year-old, he carried the flag for his country during the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics. It is a memory he will carry with him forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was elated. I was really, really excited to be holding the flag for my country Antigua & Barbuda. A couple of days before, we had a meeting to decide who would do it and when they shouted my name and said \u2018Daniel Bailey, you\u2019re going to hold the flag\u2019, it was a special feeling because I know how much it meant for an upcoming athlete to be holding the flag for his nation,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n

To put that into perspective, he carried the flag at those Olympics just one month after competing at the World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy where he finished 4th<\/sup>\u00a0in the 100 metres in a time of 10.39.<\/p>\n

At those Athens Olympics, Bailey finished 6th<\/sup>\u00a0in his 100 metres heat in 10.51.<\/p>\n

Four years later, at the Beijing Olympics, Bailey, then 21, was again the flag bearer.<\/p>\n

During the Games, he advanced to the quarter-finals after finishing second to\u00a0Bolt in 10.24 in the preliminary round.<\/p>\n

Bailey then ran 10.23 to finish 4th<\/sup>\u00a0but failed to advance from his quarterfinal, a race which saw him lined up against Jamaica\u2019s former world record holder Asafa Powell and American Walter Dix, who eventually won the bronze.<\/p>\n

A year after those Olympics would see Bailey enter the prime of his sprinting career.<\/p>\n

He would finish 4th<\/sup>\u00a0at the 2009 World Championships and then fifth\u00a0at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu.<\/p>\n

On July 17, 2009, in Paris, Bailey ran a personal best and an Antiguan national record of 9.91.<\/p>\n

Bailey then carried his nation\u2019s flag at the third straight Olympics in London 2012 where he competed in the 100 metres.<\/p>\n

Running in heat 4, against Bolt once again, Bailey would run a time of 10.12 to finish 2nd\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and advance to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Bailey then lined up against Bolt, American Ryan Bailey and\u00a0 Richard Thompson, the silver medallist from the 2008 games in his semi-final.<\/p>\n

He finished 6th<\/sup>\u00a0in that race in 10.16 and failed to reach the Olympic final once again.<\/p>\n

Bailey admits that he had entered into those Olympics with high hopes but suffered some setbacks along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had it in my mind to make my first Olympic final. I was really working hard that year and then I got an injury that set me back a little bit. The first week I got to London I caught a bad flu, and it took a toll on my body. I got eliminated in the semi-finals, but I think my overall performance was good based on what was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fast forward four years to the 2016 Rio Olympics and Bailey became one of the few athletes in history to ever be their country\u2019s flag bearer at four straight Olympic Games opening ceremonies.<\/p>\n

That year, he competed in Heat 2 of the men\u2019s 100 metres and finished 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0in 10.20 behind eventual silver medallist Justin Gatlin and advanced to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

He was then slated to appear in semi-final 3 but did not show up for the start due to injury.<\/p>\n

Bailey may not have had the medal haul of many Caribbean greats but he has competed at the highest level of the sport for more than a decade and is a role model for sprinters hailing from smaller Caribbean islands like his native Antigua & Barbuda.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to love it and enjoy it,\u201d were Bailey\u2019s words of wisdom for a new generation of up-and-coming athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy word to the up-and-coming athletes is to go for your goals. Whatever you believe in, nobody can stop that. Always work hard and smart and remember that dedication is the key to success at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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