What a superman! 9.69...and he eased up at the 75m line...damn..i feel proud to come from near jamaica...this guy is the real deal...he can lower that thing to superhuman level..and will truly deserve being accorded demigod status if he does that..

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Originally posted by dara shikoh:
What a superman! 9.69...and he eased up at the 75m line...damn..i feel proud to come from near jamaica...this guy is the real deal...he can lower that thing to superhuman level...

ooops i meant to put up de CARICOM flag.

The Jamaican girl also capture the 100m...big up Jamaica!

THe whole Caribbean should feel proud!!!

J'can sprint queens take historic gold-silver-silver in Olympic 100m
Kayon Raynor
Monday, August 18, 2008



BEIJING, China - Trailblazers Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart propelled Jamaica into Olympics athletics history with a rare gold-silver-silver sweep of the Women's 100-metre finals here Sunday night that stunned the world and sent the island's 2.8 million people into a state of euphoria.

The landmark achievement sent the Americans to the IAAF's Jury of Appeal, complaining that one of their three athletes in the race had false-started. However, the distasteful protest was thrown out in less than an hour, and the Jamaicans will today receive their medals inside the Bird's Nest Stadium.

"The Jury of Appeal received a protest from the US team who claimed that Torri Edwards moved when she was in the blocks and the starter did not call back the athletes, so the jury is examining the protest," Anna Legnani, the IAAF's deputy director of communications, had informed the Observer.
However, after viewing all the footage, the jurors made their decision.

"The latest is that the protest lodged by the Americans has been rejected," said Nick Davis, who heads the IAAF's Communications Department. "On the grounds that they (jurors of appeal) checked the evidence, they spoke with the starter, they looked at the video and determined it was a fair start," Davis explained to the Observer. He said the presentation ceremony will take place later this evening at a time to be announced.

The Americans filed the protest approximately one hour after Fraser stormed to a lifetime best 10.78 seconds to win Jamaica's first ever Olympic gold in the Women's 100m, leading the sweep with Simpson and Stewart clocking identical 10.98 seconds in a dead-heat for silver.

The victory resulted in a huge disappointment for the Americans, who were failing to win a medal in the Women's 100m for only the seventh time in their history of competing in the Olympics following 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1976, and 1980.

Manager of Jamaica's 52-member track and field team, Ludlow Watt, who had earlier expressed disappointment at the news that the Americans had lodged a protest, told the Observer he was not surprised by the jurors' ruling.

"What is important is that at the end of the day we have our medals and Jamaica is proud and the athletes got the results of their hard work, so the ruling is not really surprising because I didn't expect the protest to be successful," an elated Watts said. Jamaica's sweep of the medals in the Women's 100m at the 29th Olympiad made history because no other country has achieved this feat on the female side.

It has been achieved twice on the men's side in the 100m by the USA at the 1906 Athina Games (Archie Hahn, Nate Cartmell and Williams Hogendon) and the 1912 edition in Stockholm (Ralph Craig, Alvah Meyer and Donald Lippincott).
Jamaica's minister of sports, Olivia Grange, who was among the scores of Jamaicans who were denied the pleasure of hearing the national anthem being played twice in one day at these Olympics, expressed joy at the jurors' ruling.

"I don't want to call the Americans poor losers, so what I'll do right now is to continue to be positive and continue to feel excited and to feel pride in the athletes and in our country," Minister Grange told the Observer.

The Stephen Francis-coached Fraser, who had the second to last worst reaction time to the starter's gun, took control of the race at the 30-metre mark and romped to an impressive victory.

The former Wolmer's High School star shaved 0.07secs off her previous personal best of 10.85 established while placing second at Jamaica's Olympic Trials in June. That time made Fraser, who grew up in the often volatile inner-city community of Waterhouse in Kingston, the second fastest Jamaican woman of all time behind Merlene Ottey (10.74sec).

"It was the performance of my life time," the excited Fraser confessed. "The only pressure on me was to go out there and execute, so I felt no pressure," added the sprinter, who won a World Championship relay silver in Osaka last year. She ran in the heats.

By taking the Olympic 100m title, Fraser achieved what Ottey and no other Jamaican woman ever did. Ottey owns one silver (1996) and two bronze (1984 and 2000) in the 100m. The bronze at the 2000 Sydney Games was an upgrade from her fourth place finish after American Marion Jones was disqualified for doping.

Juliet Cuthbert copped silver in 1992, while Tayna Lawrence and Veronica Campbell-Brown won silver and bronze medals respectively from the 2000 and 2004 editions.

Earlier in the evening session, Jamaica's national anthem reverberated around the 91,000 capacity Bird's Nest Stadium as Usain Bolt collected his gold medal for winning the Men's 100m in a new Olympic and World record time of 9.69secs.

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it was awesome

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damn..i feel proud to come from near jamaica...

I think all WEst Indians are feeling that way right now!!!

a lotta goats gun be killed today in jamaica...

Dont forget the rum and that other thing. They should get a parade through the streets of Kingston on their return.

"that other thing" just got a russian sumo wrestler in japan arrested...they found a mj reefer in his wallet.

He also broke the 200m record in style.