With less than one year to go until the Rio Olympics, our attention turns to which of Newcastle United’s current squad would be able to try their hand at another sport.
The obvious cross-over is sprinting, with Newcastle starlet Rolando Aarons employing his very own Olympic training regime in the summer in order to get fit in time for the start of the new season.
Aarons returned to his home town of Bristol a couple of months in order to get the advice and help of Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell and to get some extra training sessions in.
Even Rolando needed some persuading though, saying about his training earlier this year: “It’s a bit of everything – conditioning, running technique, speed work and getting sharp. There’s a bit of football as well. If it was just running, I’m not sure I’d turn up!”
However, if one Newcastle player was to be chosen for an Olympic sprinting team it wouldn’t be Rolando, there could only be one man…
Gabriel Obertan! Did you see him sprinting to set up the second goal at St James’ Park on Sunday? While we’re at it, Georginio Wijnaldum would fare pretty well as a long distance runner too!
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Last year Sissoko was the fastest player in the premier league and Colback was tenth, so your way off the mark. Maybe check the stats before putting an article out.
In the whole Premier League?
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