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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
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, [...]