CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Chuba Hubbard remembers the moment vividly. He was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a 9-year-old competing in his first international track meet and for the first time outside of Canada. He had never lost a race, but he did that day, and afterward he said he "cried my eyes out'' in embarrassment.
His track coach, Corrine Timmer, also remembers the moment vividly because of what Hubbard said to her afterward.
"He's like, 'This is just the beginning, Coach. I'm going to the Olympics,''' recalled Timmer, who began coaching Hubbard as a first-grader. "It was nonstop.