DELANO Williams does not care what anyone wants to call him, as long as come July 27 they call him an Olympian.

The super talented Munro College runner who won successive CARIFTA Under-20 200m titles for the Turks and Caicos Isalnds, and whose 200m personal best of 20.53 second at Montego bay Sports Complex in mid-February while winning the Western Champs Class 1 event led the world ranking for several months, has his eyes on the Olympic Games in London this year.

Williams does not care in what capacity either — a relay runner, a reserve or in the individual 200m — as long as he makes the team. His time is well below the Olympic ‘A’ qualifying standard of 20.55 seconds.

Having acquired his British passport recently, the 18-year-old lower sixth-form student hopes he will be good enough to make the team to what would be a ‘home Olympics’.

So far, only one other British runner, Richard Kilty, has a faster 200m time than Williams, but he says he will be doing his best to place in the top three at the British Olympic Trials set for Birmingham on June 22 to 24, since the Turks & Caicos Islands does not have an Olympic Association.

Williams competed for the land of his birth at the IAAF World Juniors in Moncton, Canada in 2010, failing to get past the first round of both the 100m and 200m, as well as the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, in late 2010.

He will compete for the Turks and Caicos Island at the IAAF World Junior Championships in early July. He is one of several athletes born outside Great Britain who has acquired British citizenships and has also attracted derision from present and former British athletes who label them “plastic Brits”.

Showing poise far above his teenage years, Williams told the Jamaica Observer at the recent Penn Relays in Philadelphia that he is not worried about what anyone thinks of what he is doing.

“I’m not focusing on the negative things that people are saying about me. I’m focusing on the positives; not worrying about what anyone is saying, I’m just trying to do my best.

“Once I have a chance, I’m just going out there and do my best and not worrying about what they call me,” he declared.

After clocking a blistering 45.8-seconds anchor leg to lead Munro College to a repeat victory in the Championships of Americas 4x400m on a chilly Saturday afternoon, Williams says his plans are to continue training hard with high school coach Neil Harrison, while trying to pass his exams to earn a place in upper sixth form.

“My plans are to just continue training,” he said, “Penn Relays is part of the plan, but I have external exams and a few CAPE units to deal with, and that is the first priority, but I will still be training hard,” he said.

Williams will make his second trip to London in May where he will meet British Athletics officials and go through the process of joining a British track and field club UK Athletics, a part of the requirements to compete for the mother country.

He will return to Munro to sit his exams before returning to England on or around June 7 when he will finalise his training for the British Trials.

As for a time he will be aiming for at the Trials, Williams say that is not important, as long as he finishes in the top three and makes the team.