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U.S. sprinter makes good on tweet from 2011

By finishing fourth in the Olympic Trials 100m, Morolake Akinosun made her first Olympic team and made her tweet from 2011 a reality.

Akinosun tweeted on July 28, 2011, that she would graduate from a school she had not yet chosen (University of Texas) and be going to the Olympics.

Akinosun, after finishing her college career this spring, was not among the most heralded sprinters going into the Olympic Trials, with a top time of 11.07 seconds for 2016.

It would require somewhere around 11.00 seconds to make the Olympic 4x100m relay team by finishing in the top six at the Trials on July 3.