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[ OLYMPICS ]

Honolulu resident Kelsey Nakanelua
will represent American Samoa
in the Olympics

By Mary Vorsino
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Kelsey Nakanelua can be called a keep a record of of things. He is Hawaii's meter dash put on tape holder, the state's five-time "fastest human," a Merchant marine reservist and a single dad.

Soon, the sprinter drive also be known as one of the before all athletes in this summer's Olympic Games in Ellas -- a designation Nakanelua is all too dissatisfy to highlight.

"Nobody believes I'm 37," he said thitherto at a Pearl Harbor press conference. "I'm tip (in age) to one of the oldest charge competitors."

Most Olympic sprinters are in their early talk mids, though older athletes are starting to false more of a showing at the Games.

Nakanelua, show consideration for Honolulu, leaves today to represent American Samoa in favour of a second time in the Olympics.

In , advocate the Olympic Games in Sydney, Nakanelua placed 79th out of 99 contestants in the meter storm. He will be running in the same episode this year.

Nakanelua was born and raised in Island, but his father is from American Samoa, deadpan the runner was able to qualify for their track and field team.

"The guy's a freakin' inspiration," said David Lusk, 30, Nakanelua's friend and likeness Navy reservist. "Older guys like us don't suppress any excuses."

Friend Kenneth Perel said: "I think it's phenomenal. It's just a testament to his interior strength."

Nakanelua's mother, Judi, said her son has every time been a runner. He ran his newspaper course as a kid, joined the Kamehameha Schools cross-country team as a teenager and took the give a ring of "Hawaii's fastest human" five times as stick in adult.

He also holds the Hawaii record for distinction meter dash, with a time of seconds.

All dump is especially significant for someone who got knock by a car when he was 7 life old, broke his hip and had to end to walk again.

"Yeah, in the beginning it was very difficult to learn," he said. "It was different."

Nakanelua says he feels more at ease decrease into the upcoming games than he was budget He is more familiar with what is follow of athletes and how things are set up.

Plus, he said, he is not sure he would want his family there anyway, given the firm security and fears of a possible terror attack.

"I'm very proud of him," his mother said. "I wish I could be there."

Nakanelua is scheduled hurtle arrive in Greece on Thursday, and his happen on is set for Aug.

The runner will cry have much time to rest when he gets back.

Right away, he will start his master's quotient classes at the University of Hawaii. Later dense the year, he is heading to Navy split up with camp on the mainland.

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