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Originally Posted by goast8127
You are correct. Class B in '88 I believe. Won the 100, 200, 110 hurdles, and 300 hurdles. Robichaud won the team title by 9 points I think.
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I was in the stands watching. It was actually 1990, Tyrone's junior year, and he won the 100, 200, 110 hurdles and long jump. It was one of the most impressive feats I've ever witnessed in high school sports.
His senior year he won all of the same events again, except for the 200.
Interesting story from the state finals in his junior year though. First of all, keep in mind that Tyrone hadn't lost a single race in the 200 (prelims, semis or finals) since he was a sophomore at Robichaud. It was the semis of the 200 meters and Tyrone, as usual, was again WAY out ahead of everyone as they came down the stretch...so he naturally began to coast the last 40 - 50 meters. Well some kid who was a ways back in 2nd place decided that he wanted to beat the great Tyrone Wheatley so instead of just coasting as well, qualifying and then taking his place in the finals, he decided to turn on the after burners and act like
this was the finals. So he caught up to him catching him by surprise and you could tell Tyrone tried but he just didn't have enough time to get up to speed and the guy beat him by a quarter a second...and then he celebrated like he actually won something important. Tyrone was pissed.
So fast forward to the 200 meter finals and everybody is expecting a heavyweight bout between Tyrone and this kid who beat him in the semis. The gun goes off and every single person in the grandstand stands up to watch. They're coming down the stretch, just the two of them, neck and neck...15 meters ahead of everyone else. And then right when they're in the middle of the grandstand with about 50 meters to go, Tyrone literally turns his head to side and looks at the kid for a couple of strides and then just TAKES OFF and goes on to beat him by like 4 or 5 meters.
Just an insane performance by a high school athlete. He totally set that kid up from the start and made him look like a fool. He was a freak of an athlete. It's something I'll never forget.