Evan O’Donnell won the U16 race at the Silver Pail GP in Fermoy but he said his victory celebration had nothing to do with Usain Bolt and his traditional victory salute. Instead, it is a hip-hop dance move, apparently. (Photo thanks to John Coleman/DC Images)
By Brian Canty
Olympic fever hit the U16 race at the Silver Pail GP in Fermoy, Cork on Sunday afternoon, or did it?
Race winner Evan O’Donnell has sensationally denied he was trying to imitate athletics star Usain Bolt with this victory celebration.
The O’Leary’s Stone Kanturk man came to the line the clear winner of his age category race and to honour a bet he made with friends he angled his arms up in celebration.
However, contrary to the suggestion he was doing Usain Bolt’s traditional victory salute, young O’Donnell was doing an entirely different thing altogether - dabbing.
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“No not at all, I suppose it does resemble it though,” he said of the suggesting he was 'doing a Bolt'.
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“It’s actually called a ‘Dab’; I think it’s a hip-hop dance move.”
Riders from the Kanturk stable of Dan Curtin are among the most prolific in the underage scene and have been for decades and O’Donnell looks like the latest prodigy to roll off the production line.
Dancing is definitely not part of the curriculum down there.
“The lads said we would do it for a laugh,” O'Donnell explained of the motivation behind it.
“A few of us said the next one of us to win a race would do it if we finished on our own. So that’s how it came about.”
O’Donnell was active in attacking from the gun on Sunday before eventually pulling clear on the second of three eight-kilometre laps.
“I knew from the start that whoever won solo was going to do it but I forgot about it while I was racing.
“It was only when I was 500 metres from the line that I remembered to do it.”
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