Articles Tagged “Caribbean athletes”
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Olympian Deon Hemmings-McCatty honored + Team Jamaica Bickle to Host Caribbean Athletes at Penn Relays!
Caribbean unity and cooperation will once again take center stage at the Penn Relays, as Team Jamaica Bickle, dons its `host-cap’ to welcome a large contingent of athletes from Jamaica, and across the region, namely; Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada, to the ‘Bickle’ camp and as part of the Caribbean [...]
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Baltimore Ravens Player Marks First Barbadian to Make the Super Bowl
One would not think that a tiny island 14 miles wide by 21 miles long formed by the collision of the Atlantic crystal and Caribbean plates would offer more than just sun, sea and sand, but Barbados, the eastern-most island in the Caribbean, continues to make quite a splash. Barbados has brought the world musical [...]
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Usain wins 4th IAAF World Athlete of the Year award + Keshorn & Anthonique win too!
Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time last Saturday after defending his 100 and 200 meter gold medals at last summer’s Olympic Games in London. The Jamaican sprinter, who beat out American hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha, had previously won the award in 2008, [...]
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PHOTOS: Caribbean Athletes conquer at the Samsung Diamond League!
No rest for our wickedly talented Caribbean track and field athletes, as they all gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland for the 11th meeting series of the Samsung Diamond League. On Wednesday, August 23, 2012, just a few days after the London Olympics 2012, Olympic 100m silver medalist, Yohan Blake won the 100m race by beating his [...]
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LIAT might name Aircraft after Grenada’s Kirani James
It is possible that LIAT will be naming one of its planes after Kirani James, in honor of the young man who made his country and the Caribbean proud. This was a move proposed by Antigua’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, after the young Grenadian lad gave the spice isle their first gold medal. Spencer made [...]
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The Caribbean’s a force to be reckoned with in Track and Field. All medals inside..
Track and Field is definitely a Caribbean thing! Caribbean athletes, both male and female, have dominated the London 2012 Olympics in Track and Field races garnering four gold, three silver and three bronze medals, after 19 of 47 events in the sport. On Monday, Kirani James got Grenada’s first-ever Olympic gold by winning the 400 metres; [...]
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Tiki Barber marries Jumpoff Traci Lynn Johnson – 8 days after divorce!
Former Giants running back Tiki Barber, 37, tied the knot with 23-year-old Traci Lynn Johnson at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau on Thursday July 19th — just eight days after his divorce became final. “It’s a great day,” a beaming Tiki said on the way in. “We’re finally getting married.” Barber (Jamaican heritage) ditched his then-wife, [...]
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Have you met the T&T 2012 London Olympics contingent? All athletes inside…
Trinidad and Tobago will take their largest contingent to an Olympic Games when a team of 31 heads to London 2012 next month for the Games of the 30th Olympiad. The last contingent in Beijing 2008 was 30. And with 26 track and field athletes, as well as competitors in the disciplines of boxing, cycling, [...]
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