Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hasely Crawford, men's 100 metres, Montreal 1976, is still this country's only Olympic gold medalist. I would not confidently place a bet on this fact changing for another 32 years or more, despite the excitement to be extravagantly induced and ruthlessly exploited, as though we won gold, by post Olympic celebrations to be held this week. Nevertheless I heartily congratulate Richard Thompson, our silver...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
heroes: Members of Trinidad and Tobago relay team celebrate after they won the silver medal in the 4x100m finals at the Beijing Olympics in China. From left are Keston Bledman, Richard Thompson and Marc Burns. -Photo: DEXTER PHILIPTHERE will be four days of celebration for the "landmark achievement" of Trinidad and Tobago's Olympic team. Sports Minister Gary Hunt yesterday said Cabinet had agreed on...
Sports news (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Remarkable athleticism, a God-given talent and Jamaican slavery - a fascinating insight into the fastest man on earth.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Asafa Powell matched the second-fastest 100 meters in history and Usain Bolt clocked the second-fastest 200 this year as the Jamaican friends and rivals dominated the Athletissima Grand Prix on Tuesday.
Cosmic Variance (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
From the “physics answers the questions you really care about” file, some friends have treated the Olympic 100-meter dash as an astrophysics problem, and figured out how fast Usain Bolt could have run had he really tried: Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run? Authors: H. K. Eriksen, J. R. [...]
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Asafa Powell matched the second fastest 100 metres in history and Usain Bolt clocked the second fastest 200 this year,
Poetix (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
(IT has set me a writing assignment to produce two hundred words without recourse to “parentheses, italics, quotations marks or references to either relationships or topology”. In the spirit as well as the letter of the thing, I shall also eschew colons, semicolons and dashes; this will further limit my ability to resort to asides [...]
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Marc Burns copped fifth spot in the men's 100 metres "A" race at the Athletissima 2008 Super Grand Prix meet, in Lausanne, Switzerland, yesterday. The Trinidad and Tobago sprinter clocked 10.06 seconds to trail three Jamaicans and an American to the line. Asafa Powell outclassed the century field, getting home in 9.72 seconds to equal the second fastest legal time ever run. Powell's fellow-Jamaican,...
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
New world track and field sensation, Usain Bolt, is poised to light up the Athletissima Super Grand Prix track and field meeting today.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
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IOL (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt has confirmed his domination of the sprints at the Weltklasse IAAF Golden League meeting.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Chaconia Medal Gold for Olympic sprintersJulien Neaves jneaves@trinidadexpress.comSILVER STARS: Members of Trinidad and Tobago's 4x100-metre relay squad pose together after the foursome of Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson captured the silver medal at the Bird's Nest Stadium at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. From left are Bledman, Darrel Brown, Thompson,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
BROOKLINE Brookline public school students may have had more difficulty than usual slipping back into their routines on the first day of classes Thursday. That's because the school day has been extended by 20 minutes, thanks to the $6.2 million property-tax increase approved in May. High school scheduling, particularly around science labs, has been made easier by the change, while ...
Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
BIG RUN: Members of Trinidad and Tobago's 4x100 metres relay squad celebrate their Olympic Games silver, at the Bird's Nest stadium, China last Friday during the 2008 Summer Beijing Olympics. Keston Bledman, from left, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson, and Marc Burns combined for a 38.06 seconds clocking in the final, in which T&T finished runners-up to Jamaica. -Photo: DEXTER PHILIP How swiftly...
