Jehue Gordon is a 19-year-old athlete from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The city has huge problems with crime but Jehue considers himself one of the fortunate few to have found a a way out of the ghetto.
He burst onto the track and field scene at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, where he finished fourth in the 400m hurdles in a national record time of 48.26 seconds.
He followed that up with a winning performance at last year's World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada. In doing so, commentators singled him out as a possible Olympic gold medallist.
Subsequently, Jehue has been focused on the 2012 Olympics in London where he says he won't settle for anything less than the gold medal.
Jehue's status as a top athlete makes him a role model to many of the children, like these, at his old school - Belmont Boys School. Some young men that Jehue grew up with are now in prison or dead.
He trains at the Memphis Pioneers Sports Club, situated in a suburb of the capital, Port of Spain.
Jehue is easily fast enough for a US college scholarship but he preferred to keep it local. He almost lost his family in a landslide in 2008 and has, so far, resisted the lure of the United States.
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