Jamaica Olympics Central

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Emperah_dahJahI</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't see the jersey's that the sprinters wear on the Puma website. I want to buy a couple for my son. Where can I find them. </div></div>

dem ha dem in England right now </div></div>

No, no. no where can I buy them for my son.

[Emperah]

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I i i keep t t t tellin yuh google is yuh f f f fren

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Puma+Jamaica

[Tropicana]

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Thanks. I never thought of looking on Ebay. I have been combing the Puma Site. Thanks.

I see. you have to bid for them.

[Emperah]

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I like dis

[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">.the majority of Black people in Canada are of Jamaican descent.</div></div>

really?

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Emperah_dahJahI</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dwl suh a pure bch volleyball yuh did a wtch till now </div></div>

LOL .....I couldn't avoid it. They put in the middle of the running and jumping!

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">.the majority of Black people in Canada are of Jamaican descent.</div></div>

really? </div></div>

You know I really get sick and tired of getting cross examined on second guessed on every strikin;' ting that is common knowledge. Every strikin; word that comes out of my mouth gets questioned. I really don't have the time or patience for this.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Black foreign-born community
consists of people from many different
parts of the world, but predominantly
from countries in the Caribbean and
Africa. According to the 2001 Census,
<span style="font-size: 20pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">one third of the 4,400 Blacks who
arrived in Canada prior to 1961 were
born in Jamaica. </span> </span>Those from Barbados
accounted for 15%, the United Kingdom
(6%), Trinidad and Tobago (6%),
and the United States (5%).
During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s,
the number of Black newcomers to
Canada grew. </div></div> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-size: 20pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Jamaica remained the
leading source of Black immigrants with
30% to 40% of all immigrants while</span></span>
Haiti became the second largest source.
Haiti accounted for nearly 20% of Black
immigrants during the 1970s and
1980s. During this period, declining
proportions of Black immigrants arrived
from Barbados, the United Kingdom
and the United States.
According to the Census, about
139,800 Black immigrants residing in
Canada in 2001 had arrived between
1991 and 2001. One fifth (20%) were
from Jamaica, followed by Haiti
(12%), Somalia (10%), Ghana (8%),
and Ethiopia (5%).</div></div>

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2003004/article/6802-eng.pdf

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Click to reveal.. <input type="button" class="form-button" value="Show me!" onclick="toggle_spoiler(this, 'Yikes, my eyes!', 'Show me!')" /></div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div style="display: none;">Now watch the one who will remain nameless come with his usual revisionist approach to history to drag up some obscure article that claims that the figures were mis-quoted, there was an error in addition or 90% of those who were counted as Jamaican were really from Botswana but the census taker couldn't tell the difference or due to confusion due to language differences they ticked the wrong box.
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[Blackstar*]

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<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Men's 4x400m Relay Heats</span> </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 11pt">6:35AM ET / 5:35AM JA</span></span>


<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Women's 4x100m Relay Heats</span></span>
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">3:20PM ET / 2:20 PM JA</span></span>
Start list TBA
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Veronica Campbell-Brown
Kerron Stewart
Sherone Simpson
Schillonie Calvert
Samantha Henry-Robinson

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Men's 200m Final</span></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 11pt">3:55PM ET / 2:55PM JA</span></span>

[mountaingal]

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Tropicana, your stats speak to number of black immigrants. that's a different stat from the number of black Canadians. Before the large West Indian migration, Canada had significant numbers of black people who were descendants of slaves in the Loyalist movement and from the underground railroad. Nova Scotia's black community was is large and well-established (tho it had its proportion of descendants of maroons from Jamaica). Southern Ontario also had large &quot;indigenous&quot; black communities that endure to today.

black immigration i dont believe has overtaken the number of black canadians who were here before.

[Nunya]

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Flippin heck!!! Jamaica's out of the 4x400 relays!!!! What tha...????!!!! They betta have good reason for that ish!!!!

[Pepper]

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What happened? I didn't wake up to watch the race.

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Flippin heck!!! Jamaica's out of the 4x400 relays!!!! What tha...????!!!! They betta have good reason for that ish!!!! </div></div>

Simple....The other teams were better than them on the day...

[Blackstar*]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Flippin heck!!! Jamaica's out of the 4x400 relays!!!! What tha...????!!!! They betta have good reason for that ish!!!!</span> </div></div><span style="font-style: italic">Simple....The other teams were better than them on the day... </span></div></div>The third pulled up like he had a cramp.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">KINGSTON, Jamaica — Bahamas ran away with their 4x400 relay heats as Jamaica's Jermaine Gonzales pulled up injured in the third leg taking the country out of contention. Link </div></div>

[Blackstar*]

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It looked like the runners knew they weren't fit enough to race today.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Uncertainty as to fitness of Gonzales, McDonald for 4X400</span></span>
Paul Reid
Thursday, August 09, 2012


LONDON, England — Despite 400m runners Jermaine Gonzales and Rushane McDonald telling Jamaican journalists here that they doubted their participation in the men's 4x400m relays later this week at the XXX Olympiad in London, head coach Maurice Wilson told the Jamaica Observer on Monday that as far as he was concerned all six men who were selected in the relay pool were available for selection.

The heats of the men's 4x400m relays are due to be run this morning and Wilson said a meeting to be chaired by the technical leader Donald Quarrie had been scheduled to be held between late last night and early this morning.

Meanwhile, Wilson said no decision would be made on the compilation of the 4x100m relay team until after the men's 200m was complete. “We have been trying out various options” as to who would run.

Wilson, who seems unaware of the reported injuries to the 400m athletes, said until they got word from the team doctors, Dr Warren Blake, Dr Winston Dawes and Dr Priamanand Singh, as far as he was concerned they were a part of the squad.

Both athletes blamed injuries for their failure to advance past the first round of the 400m on Saturday. McDonald, who appeared to be in serious pain, told members of the media that an old back injury had flared up in the race where he finished in 46.67 seconds in fourth place.

The athlete, who had lowered his personal best in each round of the event at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Trials in June to 45.10 seconds, said the back injury had been affecting him for a while but seemed to be getting worste.

Gonzales had struggled home in sixth place in 46.21 seconds, over a second below his season best 45.18 seconds, and said he was bothered by a right hamstring injury that had prevented him from training properly and said two days before the race he was in doubt over whether he would be able to compete.

“I am supposed to be the key man in the relays, but as you saw... I did not run that well, if it was up to me I don't want to run on that relay team as I am sure the rest of the guys are running faster than me right now,” he said.

Semi-finalist Dane Hyatt, Errol Nolan, Edino Steele and Riker Hylton are the other members of the relay pool. Source

[CeaBee]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wilson, who seems unaware of the reported injuries to the 400m athletes, said until they got word from the team doctors, Dr Warren Blake, Dr Winston Dawes and Dr Priamanand Singh, as far as he was concerned they were a part of the squad.</div></div>

&quot;tough love&quot; from the coach that just never work?