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Articles written by 'Desmond G. Palmer'

Haiti’s Moise Joseph Sets the Pace

Does the pace-setter ever feel tempted to challenge the athletes in a race and keep going beyond his job description? Haitian Olympian Moise Joseph is one who knows that feeling well.
He got into pace-setting in college where he was recruited to run the 1500m. He recalled that he was asked to do the job once and they continued to count on him because they thought he’d be solid. Full Story »
Filed Under: Diaspora
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Is Mario Forsythe About to Turn the Corner?

Jamaican sprinters Mario Forsythe and Nesta Carter were born the same month of the same year: October 1985. Seven years ago, they left the island’s 2003 Boys and Girls Track & Field Championships virtually on the same footing. Mario was 2nd in 11.00 secs in heat 5 of the Class 1 boys (16 – 19 years old) 100m preliminaries that advanced the first two, as well as the next 10 best times. Nesta was also 2nd in heat 6 with 11.03. The next day, Nesta was 5th with 11.01 in heat 1 of the semi-final qualifiers that advanced the top two and next best two times to the final. Mario was 6th in heat 3 with 11.08. Both failed to advance. Full Story »

Filed Under: Men's 100m

How Jamaica Honors Its Own

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 »

Filed Under: Pioneers
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Fastest Man Face to Face With Fastest Animal

With an unverified top-end speed of 70 mph or 114 kph in the wild, the cheetah holds the title as the fastest animal on land, even though it can be beaten on the curve only by the Thomson's Gazelle (right, photo above). From a standing start, the Cheetah is said to be able to reach 45 mph (20 meters/sec) in two seconds and can hold that 70 mph speed over the first 300m before it starts going out of breath. Full Story »
Filed Under: Men's 100m
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Top US Junior Hurdler Has T&T Roots

Seventeen-year-old Wayne Davis Jr. of the US broke the world junior record for the 110m hurdles last Friday, July 31, with a speedy 13.08 secs. (2.0w) flight over the 39-inch-high barriers at the Pan-American Junior Championships in Trinidad. Full Story »
Filed Under: Pan-Am Juniors
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Kirani James Works His Wonder Again

(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 »
Filed Under: High School

Barbados’s Andrew Hinds: Chip Off The Old Block

The phrase "like father, like son" can easily describe Barbadian sprinter Andrew Hinds and his dad when it comes to one thing at least: Track.
Andrew, 25, is the fastest man in Barbados with personal bests of 10.03 secs. and 20.38 secs. over the 100m and 200m, respectively.  Hadley, his father, was one of a two-man team that represented the eastern Caribbean island for the first time at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. He was 22 at the time and ran the 200m there in 22.3 secs. but did not advance beyond round one. Full Story »
Filed Under: Men's 100m

A Peek into Shelly-Ann’s World

Welcome to the world of the bubbly 22-year-old from Kingston who was suddenly exposed to the world on Aug. 18, 2008 but still wants to remain low-keyed.
The 2008 Olympic 100m gold medalist has no interest in being treated like a star. On the contrary , she shuns the limelight and doesn't have a busy social life. She actually hates dressing up and going out. She loves staying home, spending quiet times with her boyfriend or just hanging out with teammate, training partner and close friend Asafa Powell. Full Story »
Filed Under: Women's 100m

Dangerous Daniel: I'll Show Them Who I Am

Lurking in the Caribbean is an impending danger whom some fans have only just begun to watch. He's 100m specialist Daniel Bailey from Antigua & Barbuda, who is so serious about his track career that he approaches every race with an attitude: the mind-set that he's the fastest competitor in the line-up. Full Story »
Filed Under: Men's 100m

Nickel Ashmeade Runs into The Spotlight

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 »

Filed Under: High School

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