When sprinter Wallace Spearmon competed in the 200-meter race at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, he crossed the finish line in third place — only to find out later that he had been disqualified for stepping out of his lane.

“I have no idea what it would feel like to put that gold medal around my neck, but I’ll tell you what, I’m hoping to find out,” Spearmon told Uinterview exclusively before the 2012 London Games.

Spearmon said that what happened in 2008 was “very unfortunate,” especially since he had “great chances of actually coming home with a medal.” When, after about 400 meters of his victory lap, he learned that he had been DQ’d, he was “heartbroken.”

“From that day I knew what I had to do,” he continued. “I had to come back and redeem myself.”

Unfortunately, Spearmon came up just short again in 2012, placing fourth in the 200 m event.

What’s your workout regimen in preparation for the Olympics?

So typically I have a training group and we usually try to work out together. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. My weakness is the start. I train with four other guys who have great starts. One Olympian from Canada, an Olympian from Britain, one from the U.S. and another guy, he's not an Olympian but he still has great starts. So pretty much my natural gift is, my greatest asset when I step on the track, [that] I have speed endurance. I run 200-meter dash, [which] consists of one curve and one straight. Usually trailing on the turn, going straight away you’ll watch me shoot down straight like a missile. So my main focus if I want to come home with a medal would be trying to stay closer off the turn, so I’d need to work on my start.

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