BARCELONA, Spain — After his successes at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Junior Trials and the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships Games in the last month or so, Bog Walk High’s Jevaughn Minzie was expected to be pencilled in to run one of the individual sprints at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships here.

When the lists were released, however, Minzie was only listed for the 4x100m relay, a serious medal contender here and was among a small group of Jamaican athletes and staff who watched the first session on Tuesday, including the first round of the Men’s 100m.

Odean Skeen ad Jazeel Murphy ran the 100m for Jamaica, both winning their heat to advance to the semis on Tuesday, while Julian Forte and Tykwendo Tracey contested the 200m.

After winning the Under-18 sprint double at the Trials in 10.28 and 21.37, respectively, Minzie went to the CAC Juniors in El Salvador where he won he 100 in 10.46 and was second in the 200m in 21.02 before anchoring the 4x100m team to gold in a meet record 40.17 seconds.

He also ran his personal best 20.85 in the preliminaries of the 200m in El Salvador and the winning time in the 100m at Trials was also his personal best.

While his exclusion from the individual events, especially the 200m, has been questioned in some circles, Minzie shrugged off any concern on his part and in an interview with the Jamaica Observer last week, said he was happy to wait his turn.

“I have nothing to feel bad about,” he said. “Others were chosen, and that is that. They might not have another chance,” he said, indicating that the athletes chosen ahead of him would not be juniors come next season.

“I left the decisions up to the coaches as they know best,” Minzie also said. “I will just do my part when the time comes.”

He said it was “great” to be in Barcelona.

“Not many people will get the chance to compete for Jamaica in this stadium that hosted an Olympic Games,” said Minzie, who took time out to inform himself about the history of the Montjuic Olympic Stadium where Jamaica won two silver and a bronze medal 20 years ago — before he was born — at the 1992 Olympic Games.

While he has improved this season and earned his place on the team to Spain, despite competing in the Under-18s at Trials, Minzie is infamous for his controversy caused at the last two CARIFTA Games.

Last year in Montego Bay, he led the Under-17 200m with 50 metres to go before looking back and waving to a Trinidad and Tobago runner who ran by him to snatch the gold medal.

Leacroft Bolt, who was the head coach of the team, had high praises for Minzie, however, saying he atoned for his indiscretion by running strong legs on both winning relays teams, the 4x100m and 4x400m, volunteering for the latter when the team got struck by injuries.

This year at the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda he appeared to have false started, but the race was not called back and he took silver behind teammate Murphy.

After a flood of protests and counter-protests a day later, he was disqualified from the race.