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One of the fastest men on earth has hung up his running shoes – and joined the Royal Navy as a junior sailor.

Nigerian sprinter Olusoji Fasuba – the African 100m record holder, Olympic bronze medallist, indoor 60m world champion – has swapped the track for life as a logistics expert.

The 27-year-old has just completed nine months of training at HMS Raleigh at Torpoint and is now ready to take up his first posting in the logistics department across the water in Devonport naval base.

Olusoji – nicknamed Flash by his shipmates – was looking for a more settled life for his family – wife Ngozi, a fellow athlete, and daughter Annabelle, aged seven months.

Last May he walked through the gates of HMS Raleigh to begin training as a Logistician (Supply Chain) – and on Friday walked out, training complete.

Before hanging up his running shoes, the sprinter won bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics, golds in the 100m and 4x100m relay at the 2007 All-African Games, gold at the 2008 indoor championships at 60min. And in 2006, Flash set an African record in the 100m – 9.85 seconds, just 0.27 of a second slower than the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt – at the Doha Grand Prix.

Now living in Plymouth with his family the young sailor said: "I've had a very good career in athletics and been there with the big boys, but I was looking to the future and wanted to settle.

“My father used to work for the Nigerian Navy, so from a young age it was all about the Navy. Some of my friends are serving in the British Army and tried to persuade me to join, but for me it had to be the Royal Navy.

“Training has been my way of life for a long time. Growing up in Nigeria discipline is very strict, so that aspect of being in the Navy wasn't really a shock to me. It was tough mentally sometimes and I did question myself about what I was doing, but ultimately I wanted to do it for myself and my family."

During his specialist training Fasuba was appointed the role of class leader. He played for Raleigh's football team and lists a week's leadership training at Tal-y-bont in Wales as one of the highlights of his course.

In his new role Fasuba will be responsible for ensuring that his unit has everything it needs to operate, ordering and storing millions of pounds worth of equipment, from engineering parts to stationery.

He said:

"All my life has been about sport, so I wanted to try something different. We were under a lot of pressure to learn a lot during our specialist training and I surprised myself in being able to understand it all.

“In this job I'll be working in an office or a storeroom and I'll be able to keep my athletics as a hobby. I'm excited about my first posting as I've never had what you would call a regular job and I'm looking forward to actually working in a stores department."

For the future Fasuba is hoping to complete a full career in the Royal Navy and maybe transfer to the Officer Corps at some stage.

He is keen to apply for British citizenship and although his priority is his new career and his family, he hopes one day to equal his feat of winning the 60-metre world indoor championships for Nigeria by taking the title for Britain.

The junior sailor has been training at weekends in Plymouth where he has been giving running tips to the younger generation.

Elsewhere on the sporting front, Olusoji latest goal is to become a member of the Royal Navy bobsleigh team and he will soon be travelling to Austria for his first try out at the Inter-Service games.

Olusoji said:

“As soon as I saw the film Cool Runnings, I thought: ‘I could do that.’ I've never done it before and I may not like it so I need to build my love for the sport and I've given myself five chances to see how things go.

“I've looked at the statistics and I know I can do it. My ambition is to represent Britain at bobsleigh at a Winter Olympics."

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police clashed with anti-government protesters for a fifth day in central Cairo Wednesday as a rights group raised the overall death toll from the ongoing unrest to 38.

The clashes came one day after tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square rejected a promise by Egypt's military ruler to speed up a presidential election to the first half of next year. The military previously has floated late next year or early 2013 as the likely date for the vote, the last step in the process of transferring power to a civilian government after Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

In a televised address late Tuesday, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi did not set a date for handing authority to a civilian government, but instead offered a referendum on the immediate return of the armed forces to their barracks.

The Tahrir crowd, along with protesters in a string of other cities across the nation, want Tantawi to step down immediately in favor of an interim civilian council to run the nation's affairs until elections for a new parliament and president are held.

Wednesday's street battles centered around the heavily fortified Interior Ministry, near the iconic square, with police and army troops using tear gas and rubber bullets to keep the protesters from storming the ministry, a sprawling complex that has for long been associated with the hated police and Mubarak's former regime.

The protesters say they have no wish to storm the ministry but were preventing the police and army from evicting them from Tahrir by pinning them down a safe distance away from the massive plaza.

Elnadeem Center, an Egyptian rights group known for its careful research of victims of police violence, said late Tuesday that the number of protesters killed in clashes nationwide since Saturday is 38, nine more than the Health Ministry's death toll. The clashes also have left at least 2,000 protesters wounded, mostly from gas inhalation or injuries caused by rubber bullets fired by the army and the police. The police deny using live ammunition.

Shady el-Nagar, a doctor in one of Tahrir's field hospitals, said three bodies arrived in the facility on Wednesday. All three had bullet wounds. "We don't know if these were caused by live ammunition or pellets because pellets can be deadly when fired from a short distance," he said.

The five days of clashes are the longest spate of uninterrupted violence since the 18-day uprising that toppled the former regime in February, deepening the country's economic and security woes. the unrest also threatens to cloud the country's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections since Mubarak's February ouster, which are scheduled to begin on Nov. 28.

In his address, Tantawi rejected all criticism of the military's handling of the transitional period and sought to cast himself and the generals on the military council he heads as the nation's foremost patriots. Significantly, he made no mention of the protesters gathered in Tahrir Square or elsewhere in the country.

"Our demands are clear," said Khaled El-Sayed, a protester from the Youth Revolution Coalition and a candidate in the Nov. 28 parliamentary election. "We want the military council to step down and hand over authority to a national salvation government with full authority."

http://news.yahoo.com/police-protesters-clash-5th-day-egypt-085943743.html

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