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Undisputed: A Champion's Life, Hardback Book

Undisputed: A Champion's Life Hardback

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From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada's most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent.

But he also learned that in the bureaucratic world of Canadian sports, an athlete who didn't come up in the system needed to take charge of his fate if he was going to become the world's best.

As he ascended from outsider to dominant athlete, others didn't always understand the rigour at work behind Bailey's confident demeanour.

He'd learned from watching Muhammad Ali that a champion needed to act like a champion.

But media grew fixated on the sprinter's immodesty, the likes of which they never saw from Canadian athletes, especially track athletes in the wake of the Ben Johnson doping scandal at Seoul in 1988.

Bailey was having none of it, and when he called out Canada's subtle racism and contradicted the preva

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