Posts from — October 2011

In an age where pragmatism should account for much, I challenge the establishment by suggesting that in its present format, events like the Pan American Games seem to have outlived their usefulness and could be a burden, rather than a benefit, to participating countries.

Not unlike the Commonwealth Games, the Pan Ams was originally conceptualised to increase sporting activities among people sharing a homogeneous bond — in this case, those who lived in this part of the world known as the Americas . Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Observer

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• Adidas store in Jamaica 
• Mills, Quarrie among inductees for Camperdown  Hall of Fame 

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Raymond ‘KC’ Graham,head coach of Jamaica’s track and field squad to the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, has declared that his under-strength team performed beyond expectations in the athletics competition here. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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• Mexican Memoirs 
• Spence looks to 400m
• Doctor, diplomat, athlete…A look at the life of Arthur Wint 

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The performance of Jamaican track star Usain Bolt in Daegu has bolstered Puma’s third-quarter profits, the global athletics brand said in its September earnings report.

Puma net earnings remained flat at €81.7 million but sales increased 10.2 per cent to €841.6 million due, in part, to Bolt’s performance and Faas, a Jamaican-branded shoe. The company said sales in Asia and Latin America were particularly higher over the review period, rising by 16.4 per cent.  Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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• Jamaica relay teams fail to medal
• Big up to 400m hurdler Isa Phillips
• Mexican food no bueno? 
• Three more silver medals for Jamaica at Pan Am Games
• Lerone Clarke – Carving his own niche in Jamaica’s track legacy

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Approximately 4,700 Olympic and Paralympic medals will be produced by Royal Mint, ready to be awarded during the 805 Victory Ceremonies taking place at venues across the UK during the Games.

Taking around 10 hours to complete, each medal will be struck fifteen times with 900 tonnes of weight on a special press. After each five strikes the medals are rolled through a 750 degree furnace to soften the metal, allowing the designs to be replicated perfectly. Read more>>

Source: London2012.com via Trackandfieldnews.com

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• The Bird’s Nest a white elephant in Beijing?
• Research shows mentoring essential for athletics success
• GC Foster College in need
• Jamaica’s medal prospects at Pan Am Games
• More on Mill’s induction at Camperdown 

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The ongoing debate as to whether or not world-class athletes are born or made could not be resolved at the Gleaner’s Daegu to London special Editors’ Forum held at its North Street offices yesterday.

The forum, which included Dr Colin Gyles, dean of the Faculty of Science and Sport at the University and Technology (UTech); Dalton Myers, director of sports at the University of the West Indies (UWI); Fitz Coleman, former coach of Usain Bolt and the one-time head coachat the High Performance Centre at UTech; and Anthony Davis, director of sports at UTech, dealt with a number of issues relating to the emergence of Jamaica’s athletes as world-beaters, including the moot of ‘World-class athletes: are they born or made?’ Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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• UWI Director of Sports Dalton Myers calls for development of national sports policy 
• Golden run by Lerone Clarke at Pan Am Games
• Mexico’s air affecting athletes? 
• Maurice Smith secures spot to compete in Olympic decathlon 
• Cash is not the answer for NCAA athletes
• Bahamas pulls out of bid for 2014 World Junior Champs
• A night out with Usain Bolt
• Tyson Gay cleared for light jogging after hip surgery 
• London 2012 athletes village

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The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Racers Track and Field Club yesterday celebrated their success over the past year with an awards ceremony in front of the Undercroft Building on the UWI, Mona campus. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner 

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• NCAA student athletes looking to cash in on TV opportunities
• Bowling as an Olympic sport?
• No Jamaican women in 100m at Pam Am
• World’s press demand free internet access at London 2012

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Are you still hoping to see Usain Bolt sprint into Olympic history with a 100-200-400 triple in London next year? Stop. The Olympic schedule for athletics makes the triple well nigh impossible and, while favouring the 100-200 and 200-400 doubles, it restricts another traditional combination. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner 

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• Could the 2012 Olympic stadium become a white elephant 
• Olympic chairman’s views on the Olympic stadium 
• Olympic sprinting sexist toward men?
• 2018 Commonwealth Games vote will be a challenge 
• Will Bolt yield to Gonzales’ call?
• Bolt, Blake commence training on Tuesday 
• Yohan Blake and Dexter Lee honoured : Blake awarded keys to the city 
• Blake, Bolt, Parchment among UWI awardee

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THE country’s local track and field athletes for the XV1 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico will leave the island in two batches this week with the first set, which includes eight athletes and one official scheduled to depart tomorrow evening at 6:30. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner 

OTHER TRACKNEWS

• 100-Year old man completes marathon 
• $5,000 for Ugandan athletes who achieve gold in London 

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At a press conference delivered on the morning of Thursday, October 6, within the walls of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Patsy Ricketts, Neville O’Riley, ‘Bunny Wailer’ Livingston, Glen Mills and Donald Quarrie were declared as inductees to the newly created Hall of Fame. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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• Fines for unofficial London 2012 games campaigning 

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It’s tough enough to get one relay team to a World or Olympic final, and even tougher to get a medal. So, when one country gets teams into all four relay finals  and all of those teams win medals, as Jamaica did in the recent World Championships, it’s time to celebrate . Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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