Reign­ing na­tion­al 200m cham­pi­on Ron­dell So­ril­lo is one of sev­er­al lo­cal ath­letes who have al­ready at­tained the A stan­dard for this year's Olympic Games in Lon­don, Eng­land. The La Brea sprint­er has gone un­der the 20.55 qual­i­fy­ing mark for the men's 200m sev­er­al times, with his fastest 20.16 at­tained in tak­ing his third half lap na­tion­al ti­tle, at last year's na­tion­al open cham­pi­onships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo. The World Cham­pi­onships fi­nal­ist will be hop­ing to make his sec­ond trip to Olympics af­ter he de­buted at the 2008 Games in Bei­jing, Chi­na where he reached the quar­ter­fi­nals. So­ril­lo is de­ter­mined to mount the podi­um in Lon­don this time around. "I want to make the fi­nals first, and then go all out for the medal. It is a dream to be an Olympic medal­list." The US-based ath­lete said he is work­ing on his weak ar­eas in aim to be ready for the qua­dren­ni­al glob­al meet, "I am work­ing on two weak­ness­es, which are: get­ting out of the block and how I land af­ter be­ing in mid-flight dur­ing the race." The mul­ti­ple CAC se­nior cham­pi­onships medal­list fin­ished sec­ond in this first 200m race of the year, at the Guade­loupe In­vi­ta­tion­al on May 1 clock­ing 20.42.

Com­ment­ing on his Guade­loupe ex­pe­ri­ence he stat­ed: "It was a re­al­ly nice ex­pe­ri­ence, it was a re­lax­ing at­mos­phere for me since I was com­pet­ing in my first race. I ran 20.42 which is my fastest open­er so far, so I am very hap­py with it." So­ril­lo fol­lowed up the per­for­mance with an­oth­er sec­ond place fin­ish, at the Cay­man In­vi­ta­tion­al eight days lat­er in 20.57. The 2010 NCAA Di­vi­sion I out­door 200m cham­pi­on, is look­ing at com­pet­ing more over 100m as he in­tends to do the sprint dou­ble at the Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships in June with an aim to dou­bling in Lon­don. He is al­so hop­ing to earn a spot on this coun­try's sprint re­lay team. He added that go­ing un­der ten sec­onds in the 100m and 20 sec­onds the 200m is al­so on his agen­da. "I have nev­er run that fast, but fit­ness­wise it is a high pos­si­bil­i­ty." The 26-year-old said his mo­ti­va­tion is get­ting quick­er. "I just like go­ing fast; the faster I go the more re­ward­ing it is for me. So I train hard­er to go faster. When you work hard and train hard and if it doesn't hap­pen for me in a giv­en race. That mo­tives me to work even hard­er." So­ril­lo is coached by Erin Tuck­er, who is his coach at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ken­tucky (UK) and who guid­ed him to the 2010 NCAA 200m ti­tle (the first UK ath­lete to ac­com­plish that feat).