Before heading to Rio, Liberia’s track team coach, Sayon Cooper sat in his office at the Morehouse School of Medicine and reflected on how his soccer dreams turned into track and field success.
A Meandering Road to Nowhere: Prospect Athletes Struggled to Find a Path to Olympics
A senior sprinter at Eastern Mennonite University at the time of the interview, Philip Watson has been trying to compete in the Olympics for Liberia since his sophomore year, in 2013.