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Fit Gay wouldn’t have stopped Bolt |
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
MIAMI, Florida – Former World and Olympic champion Linford Christie
says double Olympic champions and World record holder Usain Bolt would
have still won the sprint double even if American champion Tyson Gay
had been fully fit.
Gay won the sprint double at the World Championships in Osaka, last
year but an injury at the United States trials in early July sidelined
him and forced him to enter the Olympics without a single competitive
race under his belt and with lingering questions over his fitness.
“Gay is a good athlete and he would have pushed Bolt hard,” said
Christie, the only man to have held the Olympic, World, European and
Commonwealth 100m titles simultaneously.
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Pacman is officially back |
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
The Dallas Cowboy cornerback-kick returner Adam "Pacman" Jones is now fully reinstated from his 17-month NFL suspension, which followed an accumulation of arrests and legal problems. After being cleared almost three months ago by commissioner Roger Goodell to practice, he is now clear to play during the regular season.
Jones was suspended in April 2007 and missed all last season with the Titans. He was traded to Dallas in April, and was then allowed in June by Goodell to join the team in training camp and preseason games.
Jones, acquired by Dallas from Tennessee, has been arrested six times and involved in a dozen incidents requiring police intervention since the Titans drafted him in the first round in 2005. That includes his connection to a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club. His last NFL game was Dec. 31, 2006.
Since with the Cowboys, Jones had repeatedly expressed confidence that he would be reinstated for the season and said he was doing everything expected of him. AP
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Jamaica’s Celebration Crashed |
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
 Usain Bolt lay waste the competition in the 100-meters finals of the
2008 Beijing Olympics, and set off a celebration in the heart and being
of every pulse-possessing Jamaican and in the soul of everyone who
loves a display of transcendent athletic prowess.
The 21-year-old served his guests the really heady stuff: a sideward
glance searching for his virtually non-existent challengers, a
deliberately slowed pace and a chest slap close to the end of his world
record-setting tear. All of them as potent as straight up shots of
overproof rum. The party was on.
But the green-eyed specter of envy sulks in the fringes of every
victory party. It works the crowd, tapping the shoulders and pulling
the sleeves of invited guests, plying its bilious offering with a candy
coat of jest or “constructive” criticism. Bob Costas of NBC chose to
show up at our party in his Grinch-green cloak of righteous
indignation. In his self-appointed role of scold and general counsel
for the “dissed” of the world, he wagged his finger and declared Bolt’s
actions disrespectful to the competition, the spirit of the Olympics,
Costas’s dog, his cat and his gold fish.
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Jamaican Olympic Team doctor |
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
 The Jamaican Olympic team which performed with excellence at the
Beijing Olympics, securing 11 medals, including 6 Gold, and made
sprinter Usain Bolt an international household name, had a strong South
Florida connection. Broward chiropractor Dr. Michael Douglas was
assigned as one of the Jamaican team doctors, traveling with the team
and treating the athletes from training camp in Tianjin through to
their residence in the Olympics village in Beijing.
This was the fourth Olympics for Dr. Douglas with a Jamaican Olympic
team. The first, being the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Although he has had
success working with the athletes at other Olympics and World
Championships, in his opinion this was the most successful. This was
due not only to the great achievements of the team, but also because
there was the presence of a very strong team spirit. “The team members
acted very mature,” Douglas told National Weekly in an interview
shortly after his return from China on Tuesday.
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Powell, not ready for the big stage |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
 BEIJING, China– Four years after fading to fifth place in yet another
Olympic Games 100 meters, Jamaica's former World record holder Asafa
Powell admits he just was not ready for the big stage.
After failing in the last couple of years to land a major global title
on the big stages, Powell promised that this year would be the year of
delivery.
But after looking well set to win a medal in men's 100 meters at the
Beijing Olympics, the Jamaican choked once again and was left
disappointed on Saturday.
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