Having had to face fierce rivalry year after year at the high school championships in his country, 21-year-old Nicholas Gordon, a two-time All-American at the University of Nebraska, is well conditioned to stay calm under competitive pressure. He is, no doubt, ready to continue his dominance in the 2010 NCAAs, as he aims to surpass the 27-foot mark this season. Full Story »
When it comes to honoring its star athletes, Jamaica has a way to do it with bold statements. It showers them with praise, bestows them with national honors that carry titles before their names, designates them sporting ambassadors or ambassadors-at-large and show them off in motorcades. But the island also has a much less common but iconic way of recognizing their great achievements: monuments that depict the honorees in frozen motion, installed on the grounds where their journey began. Full Story »
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Kerron Clement, running in US colors, shot to the top of the track and field world in 2007. He is the two-time World Championships 400m hurdles and 4x4 relay gold medalist (2007 & 2009), and the 2008 Beijing Olympics silver and gold medalist in the one-lap hurdles and 4x4 relay, respectively. Now, Clement says he wants that Olympic 400m hurdles gold and he’ll be ready for it in London in 2012.
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