“It can be crazy taking one hat off and putting another one on but there’s a part of me that enjoys it”
“That’s what makes the late nights or extra work worth it”
“I didn’t believe the amount of synergies there are between elite sport and climbing the corporate ladder”
“Because you’re a young black boy, you need to work 10 times as hard”
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A chartered accountant by trade, ICAEW member Eugene Amo-Dadzie leads a double life as an elite-level sprinter. Here he tells how he stunned the athletics scene with a sub-10-second 100m while also balancing the books.
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