Essex County’s Coach Smart Has Caribbean Pipeline

American coach Michael Smart, the East Orange, New Jersey native and Essex County College (Essex) graduate has been coaching track and field at his alma mater for more than 24 years. In addition to his coaching duties at Essex, Coach Smart has coached teams from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), St. Vincent…

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Natasha Hastings: Diva on The Track

With a personal best of 22.61 secs for the 200m and 49.84 for the 400m, Natasha Hastings is ready to accomplish more, much more. The 23-year-old New Yorker by birth, who is of Caribbean blood, has shown that she’s a force to be reckoned with on the track. Representing the USA, Tasha, as she is…

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Bolt’s Quest to Become a Legend

For the past 18 months, the 23-yr-old Jamaican Usain Bolt has dominated track & field with his mind-boggling speed and charm on and off the track. The sprinting sensation, who has taken the track and field world by storm, features prominently in sports conversation and writings about track, from the pages of Sport Illustrated magazine…

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Sanya Richards: Gold Medal vs. Gold Bar

The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics begins in less than a week and one cannot help but wonder about Jamaican-born American Sanya Richards’s chance of copping that individual 400m gold medal in Berlin. On the contrary, her prowess in the AF Golden League Jackpot competition is unquestionable and suggests that she’ll be the one…

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Again, It’s Bolt Again; 200m World Record is Gone

What can Usain Bolt do for an encore after smashing the 100m world record last Sunday in an unbelievable 9.58 secs? The answer is clear: Just smash the 200m on the eve of his 23rd birthday. Bolt ran a superb race, getting out of the blocks quickly and making up the stagger to be a…

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Researchers Look behind Jamaica’s Sprinting Prowess?

Jamaica’s superb display at the recently concluded Games of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China has left many wondering how such a tiny nation of approximately 2.6 million people outrun nations such as the United States and Britain who previously dominated in the sprint events. Jamaica’s sprinting tradition or evolution can be traced back almost…

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