Usain Bolt seemed to trot to finish a mile ahead of the competition in the Olympic 100m sprint Saturday. In the process he set a new world record of 9.69 seconds erasing his own 9.72 mark set in May at a meet in New York. In almost an all-Caribbean final with six of the eight [...]
It used to be that there were two seasons in the year – crop season (also known as crop time) and hard time. Crop season stretched from December through June and hard time stretched from July through November. Crop season was defined by the growing season for yams. Nowadays farmers plant yams year-round, especially with [...]
Practising the bolt from the blocks… Usain Since establishing the world record of 9.72 seconds in the 100-meter race at the Reebok Grand Prix on May 31, 2008, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is one of the most eagerly-awaited athletes of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Available video includes views of Usain Bolt training on July 3 [...]
Usain Bolt in London (Phil McElhinney photo). A schoolmate of mine whom I had not heard from in ages recently resurfaced. He was a “track star” at the old school we attended in Kingston. He wanted to know what I felt about Usain Bolt’s 9.85 secs in the Jamaican national athletics championships that will help [...]
Chinese singer Wei Wei performs at a pre Olympics event in Beijing. Home advantage, strong government support for sport and recent rapid economic growth could see China go head to head with the US at the top of the Beijing Olympic Games medals table in August, according to a new analysis by economists at PricewaterhouseCoopers. [...]
Usain Bolt set a new 100 meter world record of 9.72 seconds in New York on Saturday, clipping .02 sec off countryman Asafa Powell’s mark set last September in Italy. From CTV Canada.
World 100m record holder, Asafa Powell, is set to take on world champion , Tyson Gay, at the Aviva London Grand Prix on July 25-26 at Crystal Palace three weeks before the Olympic 100m final on August 16. UK Athletics officials praised the “strongest grand prix line-up ever seen in the UK” as the 10th [...]
From IOC video clip So you think politicking and protest actions are new to the Olympics? Where have you been? According to the University of Pennsylvania, strife and conflict surrounding the games are as old as the mountains of Greece where the ancient games were held for more than a thousand years. “…The Games were [...]
Anthony Foster’s column in the Daily Gleaner of March 27, in questioning the appropriateness of recent statements by Jamaica and WI captain, Chris Gayle, ponders whether he is untouchable and rightly so. However, I cannot agree with him entirely. First, as a journalist he certainly has the right to present to the public his views [...]
Britain’s Prince Charles has kicked off a soccer initiative to help tackle the youth violence in Jamaica. The six-a-side tournament will be staged in August involving 19,000 young people, both male and female, as a way of getting teenagers involved with sport. The Prince of Wales’s Community Peace Cup is being run by Beacons for [...]