by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on July 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM
(July 13): Lanky Kirani James, the teenaged wonder from the Spice Island of Grenada in the West Indies, was the Caribbean toast of the 5-day World Youth Championships in Sudtirol, Italy which ended Sunday, July 12.
The quarter-miler, who turns 17 on September 1, has long been opening mouths in amazement and turning heads in disbelief since he was 14. 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 »