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Dwight Mullings: Exciting Season Ahead

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Jan 10 2010 2:13 PM

It is often said that when opportunity knocks, one should be ready to open the door. Dwight Mullings, the 23-year-old Jamaican quarter-miler, knows what it feels like not to be ready to let opportunity in. He believes his own negligence cost him the opportunity to book a spot on the Jamaican team to the 2009 Berlin World Championships. The prospect of his going seemed sure; after all, he would have gone into the Trials with the fastest time. Full Story »
Filed Under: Men's 400m

How Jamaica Honors Its Own

by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on Jan 04 2010 10:33 AM

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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Essex County's Coach Smart Has Caribbean Pipeline

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Dec 20 2009 1:42 PM

Smart and Kerron Stewart. Courtesy of Michael Smart. American coach Michael Smart, the East Orange, New Jersey native and Essex County College (Essex) graduate has been coaching track and field at his alma mater for more than 24 years. He has coached teams from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent & The Grenadines as well as the USA’s 2001 under-25 National Team. He is certified by both the USAT&F (Level 1) and the IAAF. More than 27 of his current and former athletes have represented countries such as Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Bahamas and T&T. Full Story »
Filed Under: Diaspora

I Want That Olympic 400m Hurdles Gold, Says Clement

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Dec 17 2009 1:32 PM

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. Full Story » 
Filed Under: 400m Hurdles
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Little Alexis Keeps Pushing The Pace

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Dec 08 2009 9:25 AM

At only 11 years old, this Chicago, Illinois native of Jamaican and Haitian background has personal bests of 1:04.21 secs in the 400m and 2:36.09 in the 800m and is preparing to bring down her times in the coming season. “I just want to be the best," she said. Full Story »
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Natasha Hastings: Diva on The Track

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Dec 05 2009 6:50 PM

DPalmer photoWith a personal best of 22.61 secs for the 200m and 49.84 for the 400m, Natasha Hastings is ready to accomplish more, much more. The 23-year-old New Yorker by birth, who is of Caribbean blood, has shown that she's a force to be reckoned with on the track. Full Story »
Filed Under: Diaspora

Fastest Man Face to Face With Fastest Animal

by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on Nov 11 2009 8:46 AM

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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Trinidad’s Gavyn Nero Strides Into Baylor

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Nov 07 2009 1:24 PM

Gavyn Jerome Nero, perhaps Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) most decorated athlete in the history of the CARIFTA Games*, is settling down well this Fall at Baylor University in Texas, USA. The 19-year-old middle-distance star is gearing up for a scintillating season in his new American playground: the indoor and outdoor National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) meets. Full Story »
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The Rise of Panama’s Alonso Edwards

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Oct 26 2009 6:27 PM

This 19-year-old Panamanian got his fair share of attention at the World Championships in Berlin this past summer, when he played second fiddle to the incomparable Usain “Lightning’ Bolt of Jamaica. The son of a Jamaican mother also had a fabulous 2009 season, which culminated in his establishing a new national record of 19.81 secs in the 200m. Full Story »
Filed Under: Men's 200m

Awesome Cubans Deserve More Love

by O'Neil A. Reid, posted on Sep 25 2009 11:11 AM

RoblesThe Berlin medalists are continuing a rich Cuban tradition in the field events but do not seem to get any love from today’s print media. Is it because the field events generate less excitement than what takes place on the track? But how do we explain the popularity of Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic (high jump) and Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva (pole vault)? Is it because Cuba is Spanish-speaking while the rest, its Caribbean neighbors, are English-speaking? Or is because they were once feared and disliked because of their political ideology? Full Story »
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