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Christian clocks national record

Filed Under (Antigua and Barbuda, Track and Field) by pwalker on 22-05-2008

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)

Danny McFarlane registers win in 400m

Filed Under (Jamaica, Track and Field) by pwalker on 20-05-2008

Danny McFarlane continues to show his relevance to the 400M hurdles by winning the event at the Ponce Grand Prix in Puerto Rico. The 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist won the hurdles in 48.77s. Read more about it here.

Antigua and Barbuda convincingly win friendly

Filed Under (Antigua and Barbuda, Soccer, St. Lucia) by pwalker on 20-05-2008

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.

Ronny shows nerves of steel and legs of lightening

Filed Under (Jamaica, Track and Field) by pwalker on 19-05-2008

In a star studded field that included Kerron Stewart, Lauryn Williams, and Allyson Felix, Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell Brown turned on the jets to top the field in the Adidas Classic 100 meters event. Lauryn Williams, World Champion, was second in 11.15 and Kerron Stewart was third in 11.16.

Campbell-Brown complained of a bad start, which could have been due to the field being recalled twice for false starts.

“I wish it was faster, because I ran 11.02 last week and I like to keep running faster every time.” said Campbell-Brown. “I cannot complain, it was just a bad start. These things happen and you just have to learn from it.”

Another Bolt moment

Filed Under (Jamaica, Track and Field) by pwalker on 17-05-2008

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

Hirst wins BVI Dinghy Championships

Filed Under (BVI, Sailing) by pwalker on 17-05-2008

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He broke a 10 year absence to participate in the event but you would never have guessed he was rusty as Robbie Hirst fought of a valiant challenge from Alec Anderson to win the weekend BVI Dinghy Championships with seven bullets.

“It was a low key fun regatta and I haven’t been in a laser in 10 years,” reflected Hirst who has been sailing IC-24s lately. “It took about half a day to get used to it, but I also remembered how painful it is to sail as well. The Laser is physically demanding. You need to have good conditioning or else you won’t be going very fast.”

Redbull Car Show in Jamaica

Filed Under (Jamaica, Uncategorized) by pwalker on 15-05-2008

Pictures courtesy of Andre Rattigan

Like a Bolt of lightening

Filed Under (Jamaica, Track and Field) by pwalker on 06-05-2008

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″