Congrats to the Jamaican Women Sprinters

[twiney]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
<span style="font-size: 17pt">US Protest Of Women's 100-Meter Final Rejected</span>
August 17, 2008 12:07 PM EST |

BEIJING — The U.S. track and field team's protest of the women's 100-meter final at the Olympics was rejected Sunday night.

The Americans asked that the race be reviewed because of a possible false start by Torri Edwards, one of the country's sprinters.

Edwards herself said she thought she false-started. She wound up finishing last as Shelly-Ann Fraser led a Jamaican sweep of medals in the dash.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_119425.html </div></div>

The shegga them get ketch by them false start tactic ... mek them tek whe dem self ....

[twiney]

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And CBC better carry the medal ceremony or them going to mek mi bawl if mi no get fi si mi flag a raise and mi anthem a play ....

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">heard there was another protest by the americans that the jamaicans got to pick gold and two silvers, the americans want to get the bronze in that case. </div></div>

LOL...mi did done seh when dem get out all the addicts outta the sport Jamaica would dominate!

[twiney]

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these are the juniors who tore up the world junior games in Jamaica moving up to the senior level so it will continue for a while.

[WorshipRaiser]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: applepie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skells</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> wow mi feel goosebumps a run troo mi baddi...mi proud a mi ppl dem man..mi proud </div></div>

mi deh ya a cry </div></div>


Awwwe - get de tushu suh well Bolt bruck de record in de 200 u wi have someting to wipe wid.

[WorshipRaiser]

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BEIJING, China (Reuters): Shelly-Ann Fraser surged to Jamaica's first Olympic women's 100 metres gold medal on Sunday and led compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart to the event's first national podium sweep.

A day after Usain Bolt claimed a first men's 100m crown for the Caribbean island, 21-year-old Fraser clocked 10.78 seconds to win the title ahead of her compatriots, who were both awarded silver after a photo finish failed to separate them.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">USA Track &amp; Field appealed against the result after American Torri Edwards said she thought she had false-started but it was rejected by the International Association of Athletics Federations. </span></span>

&quot;I can't believe I actually won. Nobody expected me to win, so there was no pressure,&quot; Fraser told reporters.

&quot;I'm so excited, I really am, I can't wait to get home.&quot;

Simpson and Stewart were given the same time of 10.98 ahead of former world champion Lauryn Williams, the first of a trio of Americans in the race that had been billed as U.S. v Jamaica.

&quot;It's wonderful, the first three for Jamaica. History,&quot; Simpson said. &quot;To be silver medallist, I'm really happy, it was a challenging time coming to these Olympics.&quot;

Stewart was also happy to be part of an achievement that had eluded Jamaican sprinters such as multiple Olympic medallist Merlene Ottey.

&quot;It's about time, we've been waiting for this, so many great athletes have come so close and we were able to pull it off tonight,&quot; Stewart, who like Simpson is 24, said.

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">American Muna Lee, who won the U.S. trials, was fifth and thought one of her rivals had got away early.

&quot;Man, I swear somebody jumped, someone got out before the gun,&quot; she said. &quot;I've never had a bad start like that, ever.&quot;

Former world champion Edwards, the fastest woman in the world this year, finished last.

&quot;I think I moved a bit there at the start, and I thought they would call it,&quot; the 31-year-old said. &quot;I think I false-started, I moved a little bit, my foot. </span></span>

The start did look a bit ragged and Simpson made the early running on the inside before Fraser came charging down lane four, and punched the air as she crossed the line.

&quot;About 50 metres out, I glimpsed to the sides and smiled, then I powered through the line,&quot; said Fraser, whose time was a personal best.

Simpson could have clinched the silver on her own if she had dipped for the line and Stewart's lean forward made the pair inseparable after a several minutes of examination by officials.

For Fraser, the youngest member of the trio who kept world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown out of the event in Beijing, it was a first major title.

Defending champion Yuliya Nestsiarenka of Belarus failed to reach the final after finishing fifth in her semi-final.

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">The medal ceremony was put back to Monday because of the appeal.</span></span>

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[Serenity82]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Milo Man*</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MITYTONE</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Milo Man*</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No man! Dat was the finals dem juss run. </div></div>
mi tink seh a did di semi. Tanks fi di karrekshan mi bredrin. </div></div>

They should just give them the 4x100 meter relay gold now. Why bother hold the event at all? </div></div>

[WorshipRaiser]

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<span style="font-size: 14pt">Jamaica's Fraser joins Bolt as Olympic 100 champ </span>By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Sports Writer

BEIJING - A few fun-loving fresh faces have suddenly turned Jamaica into the &quot;World's Fastest Nation.&quot;

And that supposed U.S. track and field juggernaut? Well, things aren't quite going to plan.

Right fist thrust overhead as she crossed the finish line all alone, silver braces shining in the Bird's Nest lights as she hopped in celebration like the 21-year-old she is, little-known Shelly-Ann Fraser won the women's 100 meters Sunday night in 10.78 seconds to help make these Olympics a sweeping success for the Caribbean island.

Fraser was followed across the line, steps later, by teammates Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart, who both finished in 10.98 and both collected silvers — giving Jamaica the first sweep of medals in a women's 100 by any nation at any Olympics or world championships.

That impressive display came one day after Usain Bolt's easy-as-could-be, hot-dogging, record-breaking victory in the men's 100 — giving Jamaica the first sweep of men's and women's 100 golds at any Olympics since 1988.

Not bad for a nation of 2.8 million, about the population of Chicago. Not bad for a nation that long has produced top sprinters but never an Olympic dash champion, man or woman, before this wonderful 2-for-2 weekend.

&quot;I was speechless yesterday for a while. Today I cried,&quot; Jamaica's minister of sport, Olivia Grange, said. &quot;Little Jamaica — our country is blessed with some of the best, if not the best, talent you can find.&quot;

Now compare and contrast. The single 100 bronze for the United States, earned by Walter Dix, amounts to the country's worst combined showing in the men's and women's dashes at an Olympics since earning zero medals in the 100 at both the 1980 Moscow Games — where, let's remember, a boycott prevented any Americans from competing — and the 1976 Montreal Games.

&quot;We've dominated for years, and now it's their time,&quot; said Lauryn Williams, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist and 2005 world champion — and one of three U.S. women who never mounted a challenge during Sunday's final.

&quot;We're getting a pretty good taste of what it's like to be at the bottom,&quot; Williams said.

The United States protested the results in the women's 100, asking that the race be reviewed because of a possible false start by American Torri Edwards — who wound up last. The appeal was swiftly rejected, and the biggest consequence was that the Jamaican women would have to wait until Monday to receive their medals at a postponed ceremony.

Not that a ruling for the U.S. would have made much of a difference. The Jamaicans, particularly Fraser, were so much better that it's hard to imagine the outcome being much different if the race were run again.

It was all part of an all-around rough day for the Stars and Stripes, beginning in the morning, when U.S. record-holder and 2004 bronze winner Deena Kastor quit because of a broken right foot about three miles into the women's marathon won by Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania.

Then, in the men's 1,500 meters, two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat, U.S. team flagbearer Lopez Lomong and NCAA champion Leo Manzano — all naturalized citizens making their Olympic debuts for their new country — failed to reach the final.

&quot;I gave everything I had,&quot; said Lagat, who won a silver and bronze representing his native Kenya at the past two Summer Games.

There was more bad news when 2004 relay gold medalist Dee Dee Trotter and Mary Wineberg flopped in the women's 400 semifinals.

At least favorite Sanya Richards left everyone in her semifinal well behind by the halfway mark and coasted home in 49.90 seconds, the fastest time by nearly a quarter-second in any of the three heats.

Richards could be part of a stronger upcoming presence for the Americans, with the potential for a sweep in Monday's men's 400-meter hurdles.

Still, it'll be tough to top what Jamaica already has done — and make track and field at these Olympics be remembered as anything other than Jamaica's coming-out party, replete with reggae music echoing through the stadium.

Fraser called it a &quot;crazy Bolt Effect.&quot;

Bolt talks about his love of dancing and preparing for the biggest moment of his life with a combination of TV watching, nap taking and chicken-nugget eating.

Fraser bared her braces with a wide, gee-whiz smile when her name was announced over the loudspeakers as the contestants waited to fold themselves into the starting blocks for the final. It was a striking contrast to the total lack of expression on the faces of Edwards and Williams.

Bolt and Fraser were both relatively unheralded in the individual 100 before this season. They also share an age — and now so much more.

Like Bolt, Fraser celebrated before her work was done, cocking her fist back over her shoulder and punching the air as she arrived at the finish line. Nothing on the scale of Bolt's arms-extended, palms-up, chest-slapping display, mind you, but an in-stride, in-race celebration nonetheless.

And, also like Bolt, Fraser won by a whopping two-tenths of a second, a significant margin in such a short race, and the largest in the women's Olympic 100 final since 1988, when Florence Griffith-Joyner broke the world record to win gold.

&quot;When I was thinking about it, I was getting ahead of myself,&quot; Fraser said about clutching a gold medal. &quot;I was like, 'Calm down. First you need to go out there and do it.'&quot;

Her win came less than two hours after Bolt was back in the Bird's Nest to accept his medal.

Coming Friday is the final of the women's 400-meter relay, where the Jamaicans figure to be big favorites: Not only do they have the top three finishers in the individual 100, but now they get to add Veronica Campbell-Brown, the reigning world champion in the dash.

Campbell-Brown failed to qualify in the individual event at the Jamaican trials. Her spot essentially went to Fraser, who didn't have a 100 under 11.3 seconds on her resume before this year.

Back in Fraser's rough Kingston neighborhood, an area notorious for gang violence, people danced in the streets, banged pots together and waved their country's green-yellow-and-black flags.

&quot;I can't wait,&quot; Fraser said, &quot;to get home.&quot;

[Wahalla]

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Now who was it who said the following Quote

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Get a grip. They are athletes not AID workers feeding starving children.</div></div>

[moni_q]

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Hooray!!! Congrats Jamaica!!

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Now who was it who said the following Quote

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Get a grip. They are athletes not AID workers feeding starving children.</div></div>

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mi no memba who it was who said it but it is still valid...we enjoy their success and we champion it, but we no need fi go ovah board wid tings a yaad....like i said elsewhere, the runners make a fortune on the circuit so we really no need fi tek foreign exchange so buy everybody BMWs an wat not....is not being mean...is being realistic that u can appreciate success widdout going ovah board ..dang

[esp]

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mi fine di video clip http://www.sportstrick.com/play.php?vid=1221

[WorshipRaiser]

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Thanks EP

Unu know seh if unu download RealPlayer unu can download streaming videos - this is exactly what I'm doing. Jine de party!

[kingy]

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just saw this race on NBC.

first and foremost those girls are TICK. and de one frasa got a buff deh.

but serus..mi love out no matta wah we a PROVE say mi likkle but we tallawah.

[WorshipRaiser]

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King - das why orthodontia a help - cho. I'm a fellow braces wearer too suh watch it - well was. She still young - a fi wi golden girl dat.