by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:45 AM
NEW YORK: Jamaica’s Nickel Ashmeade not only has turned into a world class sprinter, he also has come to like the 400m, an event that fans always have believed he should do because he’s strong and can run a tactical race. He, on the other had, used to run it solely for fun until something changed. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on May 31, 2009 at 10:26 PM
As a first-year class one athlete in 2007, Jamaica'
s Nickel Ashmeade played second fiddle to other schoolboy sprinters in his class and below.
Right after Champs 2007, Nikel'
s coach Danny Hawthrone, a senior lecturer at G.C. Foster College, told
Caribbean TrackLife
to
"
grab him now
because he'
ll be the one to watch next year." Then, as if the St. Jago High School
senior
was tired of being upstaged, Ashmeade stepped up his game and ran out from backstage, into the spotlight and into the hearts and minds of track fans. And so enquiring minds want to know what Hawthorne saw in his young charge that made him so confident in his prediction. Full Story »