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Up to speed: Azeem (centre) during an indoor race.

HE has been in the United States for just five months but already, there is a slight American twang when national sprinter Mohd Azeem Fahmi speaks.

But the Perakian in him comes out in full flight when he switches to Malay, with the customary komer (you guys) and awok (you) coming out in his conversations.


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