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Asafa eulogises bros with diamond spikes
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
EVERY time former 100-metres world record-holder Asafa Powell goes on the track this season he will be honouring the memory of his brothers, Michael and Vaughn, who passed away within a year of each other early in his career.
Powell, who is known for his strong family ties, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">will have two diamonds </span>on his newly-designed Li Ning competition spikes this season, representing his brothers whom he told the Jamaica Observer on Saturday, were “my first and biggest fans</span>”.
Powell, who spoke to the Observer during a photo shoot for telecommunications company Lime, one of his sponsors, said when he met with the representatives of the shoe company last year to plan the design, “We tried to make it as much of me as possible, so there were a lot of research and what we came up with was this: my family ties. These two diamonds are for my two brothers who passed.”
Michael was shot in a taxi cab in Brooklyn in 2002, just before the National Trials, while Vaughn died of a heart attack almost a year later while playing football.
“Everything I do this year will be in their honour,” Powel told the Observer. “They were my two biggest fans and they supported me all the way from the start, so they are never far from my mind each time I go on the track.”
Powell, who missed the IAAF World Championships last year due to an injury, has said he is fully fit this year and will be gunning for his first Olympic medal in the 100m.
He is due to run his first individual outdoor race this season at the Jamaica International Invitational at the National Stadium on May 5.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz1syZl1kdJ
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
EVERY time former 100-metres world record-holder Asafa Powell goes on the track this season he will be honouring the memory of his brothers, Michael and Vaughn, who passed away within a year of each other early in his career.
Powell, who is known for his strong family ties, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">will have two diamonds </span>on his newly-designed Li Ning competition spikes this season, representing his brothers whom he told the Jamaica Observer on Saturday, were “my first and biggest fans</span>”.
Powell, who spoke to the Observer during a photo shoot for telecommunications company Lime, one of his sponsors, said when he met with the representatives of the shoe company last year to plan the design, “We tried to make it as much of me as possible, so there were a lot of research and what we came up with was this: my family ties. These two diamonds are for my two brothers who passed.”
Michael was shot in a taxi cab in Brooklyn in 2002, just before the National Trials, while Vaughn died of a heart attack almost a year later while playing football.
“Everything I do this year will be in their honour,” Powel told the Observer. “They were my two biggest fans and they supported me all the way from the start, so they are never far from my mind each time I go on the track.”
Powell, who missed the IAAF World Championships last year due to an injury, has said he is fully fit this year and will be gunning for his first Olympic medal in the 100m.
He is due to run his first individual outdoor race this season at the Jamaica International Invitational at the National Stadium on May 5.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz1syZl1kdJ
...anyway, the price of diamond is alll inflated...man made pricing....coloured stones r more precious dan diamond which is y the royal family engagement rings r always coloured gems....having said all dat n knowing u bakgrung in jewellery di I need a black diamond to fill out mi collection..u ha any leff ovah...
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