Antiguan Brendan Christian seems on track with his Olympic preparation with an impressive win at the Ponce Grand Prix. Clocking a national record of 10.11s, Christian romped to victory at the Paquito Montaner Stadium in Puerto Rico. Christian outgunned ex-world champion Kim Collins from St. Kitts to land the top spot. He completed the double in even more dominant fashion, clocking 20.21s for an impressive win over Canada’s Brian Barnett (20.55s)
Antigua and Barbuda showed power and performance in their encounter with St. Lucia in their recently soccer friendly when they drubbed the visitors 6-1 in the friendly held at the Antigua Recreation Grounds yesterday. Though they played in front of a small home crowd, the Wadadli boys did not disappoint as they showed confidence in ball control and ultimately their victory. Kerry “Arab” Skepple was awarded player of the match for his two goal contribution.
Usaine Bolt once again underscored his importance to Jamaican track and field by winning the 100m dash at the Hampton International Games. The winning time of 9.92 seconds was the fastest ever legal 100m dash in Trinidad and Tobago. Even while shutting down at the end, Usaine keeps the competition guessing as to what he’s really capable of doing
2008 Hampton Games Men’s 100m Final
Filed Under (Jamaica, Uncategorized) by pwalker on 15-05-2008
Pictures courtesy of Andre Rattigan
Yet another Jamaican is center stage in the world 100M arena. Usain Bolt shocked the crowd and himself by posting one of the fastest 100M finishes ever at 9.76s at the recently concluded Jamaica International Invitational meet. Bolt, whose specialty is usually the 200M was participating in the event as a warm up to the Olympics, left the field in his dust as the closest finisher, American Darvis Patton, could only muster a 10.08s. Bolt’s time was posted with a following wind of 1.8m/s, just shy of the legal limit.
“I knew that I was coming here to do under 10 seconds” says Bolt, “… I really did not know I was going that fast, I was looking for 9.80 or 9.85″
