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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2021 14:09:32 GMT
Hansle Parchment made a revelation about his Olympic triumph on social media. Parchment explained how he ended up at the wrong venue for the semi-finals. http://instagram.com/p/CSZqFmvgwMT In an Instagram video, he explained how he was left stranded with little hope of getting to the stadium on time. Hansle accidentally arrived at the aquatic venue of the Tokyo Olympics after taking the wrong bus. In the video, Parchment spoke about how a volunteer helped him reach the right venue on time. #TokyoOlympics #TokyoVolunteer #Jamaica #HansleParchment
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2021 23:29:45 GMT
Jamaican hurdler Hansle Parchment has tracked down and thanked a Tokyo 2020 volunteer who paid for his taxi to the Olympic Stadium, where he won a gold medal the following day. Parchment told the story in a video posted to social media last weekend, which ended with him meeting the volunteer, whom he called Tiana. He thanked her, showed her the gold medal, gave her a Jamaican Olympic shirt and paid her back the money she had lent. “You were instrumental in me getting to the final that day,” he told her before they posed for a photo. Tiana’s biggest prize may be yet to come though: the Sunday Gleaner reported Jamaica’s minister for tourism intends to host her on a trip to the Caribbean island. “No matter where in the world she is, we want to reciprocate the kindness shown to one of our own,” Jamaica’s minister for tourism, Edmund Bartlett, told the Sunday Gleaner. Parchment feared he would miss last Wednesday’s 110m hurdles semi-final when he got on the wrong coach and ended up at what he believes was one of the aquatics venues. All the official Tokyo 2020 cars were booked and taking a bus back to the Olympic village and then another to the stadium would have left him struggling to make the start of the race. “If I had done that, I wouldn’t get there in time to even warm up. I had to find another way. I was trying to get one of the branded cars for the Games to take me, but these people are very strict and adhering to the rules, and I would have to have to book the car from beforehand to get it to leave,” he said on the video posted to social media.
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