Posts by Anthony Gayle
Abandoning Team Responsibilities for Money Isn’t Cool
“There is no ‘I’ in ‘TEAM.’” If we got a penny for each time we heard this statement, we could retire to a dream home somewhere in the Caribbean. Apparently, this saying is going in one ear of some high school athletes in New York and out the other. There seems to be a growing…
Read MoreYoung Athlete Finds Secret to Jamaica’s Sprinting Success
A young female student athlete and member of a dominant New York City high school track and field team is vacationing in Jamaica , the land of her birth. A family member with whom she’s staying arranged for her to continue her track training there, by signing her up with one of the premier track…
Read More‘Jamaica Doesn’t Replace Its Sprinters; It Reloads Them’
Yohan Blake became only the 2nd Jamaican to run below 19.8 secs in the 200m, joining Usain Bolt and pushing the legendary Donald Quarrie down to 3rd with the 19.86 mark he set more that two decades ago. He is also now third on the Caribbean list, behind Bolt and Trinidad & Tobago’s Ato Boldon…
Read MoreNew York’s Cardozo’s Lady Judges Hand Down Rulings
Benjamin Cardozo High School (Queens, NY) girls 4x400m relay team fresh off their near-record-breaking performance of 3:53.19 secs. — a mere 200th of a second off the meet record (3:53.17) at the recently concluded Millrose Games at New York’s Madison Square Garden — showed their dominance by demolishing a line-up of top-notch New York State…
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