I’m writing to personally express my disappointment of the coverage of Kirani James’s recent accomplishment. This past week he won the 400 meters in what was one of the most exciting races of the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.

He became the youngest person ever to win a world championship in any event and also the first person from his country of Grenada to win a gold medal in a World Championship. Yet your newspaper decided to hide him on page 6 while highlighting the fact that Donta Hightower “is back on the playing field” on your front page.

I hope the newspaper does better coverage next time as you have a probable future Olympic finalist here on campus, not to add the University of Alabama’s first ever track World Champion.

To offer a comparison: Mark Ingram’s Heisman was domestic; Kirani James World Championship was global!

Udechukwu Bobby Onyeukwu is a senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering.