Carlin Isles sets sights on an Olympic double at Tokyo

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 02: Carlin Isles of the USA is tackled during the 2020 Sydney Sevens Semi Final match between South Africa and USA at Bankwest Stadium on February 02, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brett Hemmings/Getty Images)

 

RUGBY’S fastest man, Carlin Isles, remains on track to realise another dream this summer at the Tokyo Olympics as he targets gold with Mike Friday’s USA Sevens before taking on the fastest in the world in the 100m.
Isles, 31, fulfilled one dream by competing in Sevens at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Now he is hoping to fulfil his original ambition of making it to the Olympics as a sprinter as well.
Isles, a track star in high school and college before discovering rugby on YouTube, is hungry for Sevens gold after the USA’s group exit in Rio – and is also targeting the blue ribband event.
“It ...

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