KRISS AKABUSI IS 65 THIS NOVEMBER. How can someone with such seemingly inexhaustible energy be eligible for a metaphorical bus pass? Time clearly waits for no man, even one who once scorched round tracks the way Akabusi did: and never to more devastating effect than at the 1991 world championships in Tokyo.
The Americans were favourites for the 4x400m relay: they always were. Akabusi and his British teammates Roger Black, Derek Redmond and John Regis had other ideas. But they needed to be smart. Conventional wisdom had it that Black as the fastest
