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I am based in London and the excitement is already building, so here is the thread for the London 2012 Olympics Games bright and early! Note tickets are already selling out and the schedules for T&F and other sports are now being advertised on the official website!

Please post updates concerning T&T athletes as they qualify to represent us at the Olympics in this thread.

The Olympic Games will be held in London from 27th July to 12th August 2012.

Official website: http://www.london2012.com

Here is the link for the Athletics Schedule:
http://www.london2012.com/games/sport-competition-schedules/olympic-sport-competition-schedule.php?sport=Athletics&venue=Olympic+Park+-+Olympic+Stadium&date=&Search.x=33&Search.y=16

You can use the schedule (also posted below in this thread) to help plan your Olympic Games experience.
To view the full schedule including ticket prices you can visit the London 2012 ticketing website at: http://media.ticketmaster.com/en-gb/img/sys/tournament/london2012/oly-complete.pdf

NB: Ticket prices for the Athletics can be viewed on page two of ticketing prices document!
All competition schedules on official website and on ticketing website subject to change at any time.
« Last Edit: July 27, 2012, 11:10:14 AM by Tallman »
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Re: Thread for the London Olympics 2012!
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2011, 11:40:07 AM »
London 2012 Olympics Athletics competition schedule

Date / time   Sport   Venue
3 August 10:00 - 13:45   Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 400m Hurdles: round 1
Men's 3000m Steeplechase: round 1
Men's Hammer: qualifying
Men's Shot Put: qualifying
Women's 100m: classification heats
Women's 400m: round 1
Women's Triple Jump: qualifying
Women's Heptathlon: 100m hurdles, high jump

3 August 19:00 - 21:55    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 1500m: round 1
Men's Long Jump: qualifying
Men's Shot Put: final
Women's 100m: round 1
Women's 10,000m: final
Women's Discus: qualifying
Women's Heptathlon: shot put, 200m

4 August 10:00 - 13:45   Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 100m: classification heats, round 1
Men's 400m: round 1
Women's 3000m Steeplechase: round 1
Women's Pole Vault: qualifying
Women's Heptathlon: long jump, javelin

4 August 18:50 - 22:05    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Women's Heptathlon: long jump, javelin
Men's 400m Hurdles: semi-finals
Men's 10,000m: final
Men's Long Jump: final
Men's Shot Put: victory ceremony
Men's 20km Race Walk: victory ceremony
Women's 100m: semi-finals, final
Women's 400m: semi-finals
Women's 10,000m: victory ceremony
Women's Discus: final, victory ceremony
Women's Heptathlon: 800m, victory ceremony

5 August 18:50 - 21:55    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 100m: semi-finals, final
Men's 400m: semi-finals
Men's 1500m: semi-finals
Men's 3000m Steeplechase: final
Men's 10,000m: victory ceremony
Men's High Jump: qualifying
Men's Long Jump: victory ceremony
Men's Hammer: final
Women's 100m: victory ceremony
Women's 400m: final, victory ceremony
Women's 400m Hurdles: round 1
Women's Triple Jump: final, victory ceremony
Women's Marathon: victory ceremony

6 August 10:00 - 12:20   Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 800m: round 1
Men's Discus: qualifying
Women's 100m Hurdles: round 1
Women's 1500m: round 1
Women's Shot Put: qualifying

6 August 18:50 - 21:40    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 100m: victory ceremony
Men's 400m: final
Men's 400m Hurdles: final, victory ceremony
Men's Hammer: victory ceremony
Women's 200m: round 1
Women's 400m Hurdles: semi-finals
Women's 3000m Steeplechase: final
Women's Pole Vault: final
Women's Shot Put: final, victory ceremony

7 August 10:00 - 12:35   Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 110m Hurdles: round 1
Men's 200m: round 1
Men's Triple Jump: qualifying
Women's 5000m: round 1
Women's Javelin: qualifying

7 August 18:50 - 21:20    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 400m: victory ceremony
Men's 800m: semi-finals
Men's 1500m: final
Men's High Jump: final
Men's Discus: final
Women's 100m Hurdles: semi-finals, final
Women's 200m: semi-finals
Women's 3000m Steeplechase: victory ceremony
Women's Long Jump: qualifying
Women's Pole Vault: victory ceremony

8 August 10:00 - 13:40   Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 5000m: round 1
Men's Pole Vault: qualifying
Men's Decathlon: 100m, long jump, shot put
Women's 800m: round 1
Women's Hammer: qualifying

8 August 18:00 - 21:55    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 110m Hurdles: semi-finals, final
Men's 200m: semi-finals
Men's 1500m: victory ceremony
Men's High Jump: victory ceremony
Men's Discus: victory ceremony
Men's Javelin: qualifying
Men's Decathlon: high jump, 400m
Women's 100m Hurdles: victory ceremony
Women's 200m: final
Women's 400m Hurdles: final, victory ceremony
Women's 1500m: semi-finals
Women's Long Jump: final

9 August 09:00 - 16:00   Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 4 x 400m Relay: round 1
Men's Decathlon: 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault
Women's High Jump: qualifying

9 August 18:30 - 22:10    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 110m Hurdles: victory ceremony
Men's 200m: final, victory ceremony
Men's 800m: final, victory ceremony
Men's Triple Jump: final, victory ceremony
Men's Decathlon: javelin, 1500m
Women's 200m: victory ceremony
Women's 800m: semi-finals
Women's 4 x 100m Relay: round 1
Women's Long Jump: victory ceremony
Women's Javelin: final

10 August 19:00 - 21:40    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 4 x 100m Relay: round 1
Men's 4 x 400m Relay: final
Men's Pole Vault: final
Men's Decathlon: victory ceremony
Women's 1500m: final
Women's 5000m: final, victory ceremony
Women's 4 x 100m Relay: final, victory ceremony
Women's 4 x 400m Relay: round 1
Women's Hammer: final, victory ceremony
Women's Javelin: victory ceremony

11 August 18:45 - 21:30    Athletics   Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium
Men's 5000m: final, victory ceremony
Men's 4 x 100m Relay: final, victory ceremony
Men's 4 x 400m Relay: victory ceremony
Men's Pole Vault: victory ceremony
Men's Javelin: final, victory ceremony
Men's 50km Race Walk: victory ceremony
Women's 800m: final, victory ceremony
Women's 4 x 400m Relay: final, victory ceremony
Women's High Jump: final, victory ceremony
Women's Hammer: victory ceremony
Women's 20km Race Walk: victory ceremony

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Looks like the 4 x 400m Relay final will not be the final event of the London 2012 Olympics as has been traditionally the case, instead the final event of the 2012 Olympics will be the 4 x 100m Relay final!

Is this change down to the Bolt effect because Bolt is not down to run the 4 x 400m Relay final?

And how does this affect JA's &/or T&T's chances of beating the Americans in the 4 x 400m Relay on the 2nd to last day of the Olympics if all three teams (USA, JA & T&T) make the 4 x 400m Relay final?
The British will also fancy their chances!  :thinking:
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Re: Thread for the London Olympics 2012!
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2011, 01:19:02 PM »
I am based in London and the excitement is already building, so here is the thread for the London 2012 Olympics Games bright and early! Note tickets are already selling out and the schedules for T&F and other sports are now being advertised on the official website!

Please post updates concerning T&T athletes as they qualify to represent us at the Olympics in this thread.

The Olympic Games will be held in London from 27th July to 12th August 2012.

Official website: http://www.london2012.com

Here is the link for the Athletics Schedule:
http://www.london2012.com/games/sport-competition-schedules/olympic-sport-competition-schedule.php?sport=Athletics&venue=Olympic+Park+-+Olympic+Stadium&date=&Search.x=33&Search.y=16

You can use the schedule (also posted below in this thread) to help plan your Olympic Games experience.
To view the full schedule including ticket prices you can visit the London 2012 ticketing website at: http://media.ticketmaster.com/en-gb/img/sys/tournament/london2012/oly-complete.pdf

NB: Ticket prices for the Athletics can be viewed on page two of ticketing prices document!
All competition schedules on official website and on ticketing website subject to change at any time.

are you planning to throw any fetes for the TT athletes and fans?

let the board now if you do any, would love to make london 2012

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Re: Thread for the London Olympics 2012!
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2011, 01:47:21 PM »
We'll be putting on a series of events/fetes and not just one!!
Don't worry all details will be posted in due course!  ;)
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Dwain Chambers's manager wants athlete's Olympic ban overturned
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2011, 09:53:00 PM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/15605668.stm

Dwain Chambers's manager wants athlete's Olympic ban overturned
Chambers represented Britain in the 100m at the 2011 World Championships


Dwain Chambers's manager wants the British Olympic Association (BOA) to lift the athlete's ban from the Games.


The sprinter is considering appealing against a BOA by-law that bars him from competing at the Olympics because he failed a drugs test in 2003.

The World Anti-Doping Authority (Wada) wrote to the BOA in October urging them to review their life-ban policy.

"There is an increasing lack of support for life-ban sanctions," Chambers's manager Siza Agha said.

"It is of great significance that Wada is spearheading the invitation to the BOA for reform of the by-law."

The United States Anti-Doping Agency has also told the BOA to scrap its policy.

Wada's move came after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) judged that the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) rule barring doping offenders was unenforceable.

"Putting aside the plainest legal soundings from Cas, I find it difficult to understand how the BOA by-law leaves no room for redemption," Agha added.

"It would be very curious if the BOA was unwilling to take advice from the organisations who have the expertise and are charged with the primary responsibility in this field.

"Such a course, if maintained, would be misconceived and very unfortunate."

The IOC's rule barred any athlete who has received a doping suspension of more than six months from competing in the next Olympic Games.

The Cas ruling cleared American LaShawn Merritt to defend his Olympic 400m title after it upheld his appeal against an IOC ban.

Merritt, 25, successfully argued that the ruling went beyond the Wada Code, which came into force in 2004 and harmonised rules around the globe. It brought in a maximum ban of two years for athletes who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

America's former Olympic champion Michael Johnson has voiced his concern that the BOA by-law, which was introduced in 1992, is unfair.

However, Colin Jackson, the double world 110m hurdles champion and Olympic silver medallist, wants Britain's national Olympic committee to "stick to its guns".

Chambers, 33, failed in a previous attempt to overturn his BOA ban prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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LaShawn Merritt is now free to compete at London 2012
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2011, 09:55:35 PM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/15743767.stm

BOA chairman Moynihan attacks 'toothless' anti-doping regime
LaShawn Merritt is now free to compete at London 2012


British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan says "toothless gestures towards zero tolerance" mean "drugs cheats" will compete at London 2012.

And he said the BOA lifetime Olympic ban for British athletes guilty of doping offences should remain in place.

"We now have a situation where drugs cheats will be able to compete in London 2012," Moynihan said.

"We must decide: is the outcome we want a watered-down, increasingly toothless gesture towards zero tolerance?"

American LaShawn Merritt is able to run in next year's London Olympics after a successful appeal last month.

Although the BOA has no jurisdiction over an American athlete, the case has renewed pressure on the association to alter its own hardline policy.

"Much has been made of the fact that there is no room for redemption in the BOA's lifetime ban," Moynihan told the International Federations Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

"It is argued that Olympic values should include the indulgence of human frailty, forgiveness and redemption and that the mark of a true justice system is the prospect of reform and redemption that it offers.

"These are important values and society as a whole is defined and enhanced by our recognition and adoption of them. To err, after all, is human.

"However, I believe we need to ask where is the redemption for the clean athlete denied selection by a competitor who has knowingly cheated?

"What is worse the cheat, possibly with a lifelong benefit of a course of growth hormones and other drugs, is back again. Under the current Wada Code, if he times his two-year ban correctly he is ready to deny another clean athlete selection for the following Olympic Games.

"So now is a time for change, now is a time for informed review, and now is a time to refocus on our drive to identify those who knowingly cheat their fellow competitors."

Merritt was banned for nearly two years in 2010 for failing three tests for a banned steroid.

Colin Jackson backs GB Olympic doping policy
This was later reduced to 21 months but the American was still due to miss London 2012 under the International Olympic Committee's policy of banning athletes given a doping suspension of more than six months from competing in the next Games.

But Merritt and the United States Olympic Committee argued it went beyond World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) sanctions of a maximum two-year ban and took their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which overturned the ban.

This has led to speculation that other athletes, including Briton Dwain Chambers - who failed in a previous attempt to overturn his BOA ban prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics - may attempt similar appeals.

The BOA's bylaw means any British athlete who is banned for longer than six months for doping offences can never again compete for Britain in the Olympics.
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British must stand up to WADA
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2011, 09:49:12 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2011/11/22/british-must-stand-wada

British must stand up to WADA
Published: Tue, 2011-11-22 17:20
Brian Lewis

What is the basis for the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) battle with the British Olympic Association (BOA)? Why is WADA trying to tell the BOA under what terms it can select the Great Britain Olympic team? Is WADA now a law unto itself? Any person or organisation belonging in any capacity whatsoever to the Olympic Movement is bound by the provisions of the Olympic Charter and respect the fundamental ethical principles of Olympism and the Charter. Olympic Charter Rule 31 is unambiguous: the mission of NOCs is to develop and protect the Olympic Movement in their respective countries, in accordance with the Olympic Charter. The IOC and its NOCs must lead the fight against doping in sport.  NOCs have exclusive powers for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games.
 
It also states that in order to fulfill their mission, NOCs may cooperate with governmental or non-governmental bodies. However, they must never associate themselves with any activity which would be in contradiction with the Olympic Charter. The Olympic Charter is absolutely clear that NOCs shall preserve their autonomy and resist all pressures of any kind that may prevent them from complying with the Olympic Charter. The penalty for failure to comply with the Olympic Charter may result in the IOC suspending or withdrawing recognition. If it were a national government, the IOC would have been down on the country like a ton of bricks, suspension and a threat of expulsion would be the order of the day. So it’s absurd that the very same Olympic Charter would be interpreted as giving WADA the power and authority to interfere in the selection policy of an NOC.
 
The fact of the matter is that there is need for a firmer and stronger stance against doping in sport. Those who argue otherwise are delusional. WADA was set up to level the playing field, strengthen the fight against doping and bring all athletes closer to fairer completion. In its uncompromising fight against doping, the BOA has a zero tolerance stance. In so doing it sends a strong message to athletes, coaches and others who cheat. As always in these matters it seems as if there is greater concern for the rights of the drug cheats than the rights of the clean athlete. If the Olympic Charter gives NOCs  exclusive powers for the representation at Olympic Games why is WADA challenging the BOAs right, obligation  and duty in this regard?
 
Clean athletes must have a measure of assurance that drug cheats are not wanted in the Olympic Games. NOCs have a duty first and foremost to the drug free athlete. The fight against doping should not be empty words. The fear of costly legal battles that drug cheats are prepared to wage before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is no excuse to give in and water down sanctions. Sport is facing a myriad of challenges including doping in sport, illegal gambling, bribery and corruption. There is no end in sight. Sporting bodies are responsible for selecting their teams and deciding on code of conduct and selection criteria. CAS has ruled that WADA is responsible for anti-doping rules globally. Under IOC rules compliance with the doping code is mandatory. However, the Olympic Charter gives the BOA exclusive powers for selecting its team for the Olympic Games. WADA or CAS cannot usurp the primary rights, duties and authority of an NOC. It is ludicrous that the BOA should face sanctions for refusing to select drug offenders on its Olympic Games team. This is not a code compliant issue nor is it one of double jeopardy. It is about the right of the BOA to select its Olympic team. The BOA is well within its right to stand firm behind rule 31 and their lifetime ban on selection for Olympic Games for athletes who test positive.
 
Editor’s note: Brian Lewis is the Honorary Secretary General of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee http://www.ttoc.org. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the T&TOC.
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London 2012: LaShawn Merritt - ‘One mistake should not cost me my career'
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2011, 02:40:25 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/8932727/London-2012-Olympics-LaShawn-Merritt-One-mistake-should-not-cost-me-my-career.html

London 2012 Olympics: LaShawn Merritt - ‘One mistake should not cost me my career’
LaShawn Merritt, the Olympic 400 metres champion, is blissfully unaware that he could be responsible for bringing down the British Olympic Association’s much-cherished anti-doping policy.
By Simon Hart

10:12PM GMT 02 Dec 2011

The American quarter-miler is too busy at his Virginia training base in preparation for next summer’s Olympics to concern himself with the row that has engulfed the BOA and the World Anti-Doping Agency, sparked by his recent success in overturning an International Olympic Committee rule that would have barred him from London 2012 because of his previous failed drug test.

But the 25 year-old does take satisfaction from the fact that others like him could benefit from the legal precedent he has set, which could spell the end of the BOA’s lifetime Olympic ban for former drug cheats.

“I think I did it for anybody who made a simple mistake, as I did,” he said. “It wasn’t intentional. It was just an honest mistake and I feel that people do make mistakes in life.

“It shouldn’t cost anybody their whole career. That was pretty much what it was. It was definitely for myself but, in the bigger scheme of things, it was for everybody like myself.”

The key word here is “honest”, and Merritt falls silent when it is pointed out that his legal victory could open the Olympics to athletes who have deliberately and dishonestly cheated, such as sprinter Dwain Chambers and cyclist David Millar. But he does believe, like Wada, that there should be one rule for all.
 
“I always feel that people make mistakes everywhere in life,” he said. “I think it should be the same rule across the board.”
 
Whether Merritt’s own drug-test failure in 2009 was honest has divided opinion in the United States and the rest of the world, but no one could dispute that it was a mistake.
 
The substance for which he tested positive was DHEA and his explanation was that it was an ingredient in an over-the-counter penis-enlargement product he had been taking called ‘ExtenZe’.
 
“I got jokes, I had emails, I had Facebook messages,” he said. “I just had to call on the support of my team and pray and ask God to give me the strength to be able to get through it. It was not the end of the world. God blessed me with a talent and, no matter what goes on in life and no matter what people thought, I was still blessed with that talent, so I had to go out and work hard. I couldn’t just throw it away.” Even if it was an honest explanation, there was surely a temptation to come up with another less embarrassing excuse to avoid the ridicule that would inevitably come his way.
 
“It was the truth,” Merritt said. “As much as I’m a hard worker, I’m an honest person and you just can’t be half of one thing in life. If I work hard, I also have to be honest because the two go together. I felt that this thing had happened and it must have happened for a reason.”
 
The experience has certainly taught Merritt who his real friends are. While some fellow athletes and officials remained supportive, others shunned him after he was handed a 21-month ban. Doug Logan, the former chief executive of USA Track and Field, said at the time: “LaShawn brought shame to himself and his team-mates. I’m disgusted by the whole episode.”
 
Merritt said: “There were a lot of them who turned their backs, but none of them pay my bills and none of them are out on the track every day, blood sweat and tears. It’s only me at the end of the day, so I had to get done what I had to get done. As long as I was honest with it, I was happy to take what comes.”
 
One of the hardest things he had to deal with was the need to keep training throughout his suspension, not knowing whether he would have the chance to defend his Olympic title. “It was just training and training and training without having the chance to compete,” he said. “It was like being locked up and being unable to do anything except one thing,” he said. “But mentally, I just had to tell myself that this was something I just had to get through because when I eventually lined up in a race, there was no way I was going to line up and not be in shape. I was destined to do this so I had to put this work in. I just forced myself to do it.”
 
His efforts were vindicated when he returned from his ban to run a sizzling sub-45-second time in Stockholm in July, before clocking the fastest time of the year, 44.35 sec, in his heat at the World Championships in Daegu.
 
His only disappointment was being beaten on the line by the brilliant Grenadian teenager Kirani James in the world final — something he puts down to lack of mental sharpness.
 
But the defeat has made him even more determined to win gold in London and, free of the stresses of his legal fight, he is in no doubt that he can achieve his goal.
 
“It feels good knowing that all the pieces in my life are back together,” he said. “London 2012 has a big target on its back for me to go there and show my dominance again by defending my medal.
 
“It’s time now for me to train hard and show the world that I am the top quarter-miler.”
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London 2012 - British sprinter forced to sell himself on eBay
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2011, 05:40:23 AM »
No wonder Britain is not doing too well in the sprints!! They hosting the Olympics but are not willing to properly support their athletes to mount the podium!

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/07122011/58/london-2012-british-sprinter-turns-ebay-money.html

London 2012 - British sprinter turns to eBay for money
Wed, 07 Dec 08:04:00 2011

British 200 metres sprinter James Ellington has put himself up for auction on eBay as he tries to raise enough money to train for the Olympics.

Ellington, 26, needs around £30,000 to cover living and training costs as he prepares for the 2012 Games in London, but he has no sponsors to pay his way.

As a result he is auctioning himself on eBay, with the winner allowed to put its brand on Ellington’s kit at training and press events before and after the games.

"We're putting myself on eBay up for auction to gain sponsorship," he told AFP after the lot went online early on Wednesday morning.

"Currently I have no commercial sponsorship so we looked at different ways to get myself out there and gathering interest from outside companies."

Ellington set the fastest 200m time by a British athlete this year at 20.52 seconds, and also expects to compete for a place in the 100m relay squad.

After four years of serious injury problems, Ellington explained that sponsors are reluctant to back someone who they worry may not be fit for the Games.

"I'm injury free now, a year before the Olympics and probably one of the biggest sprint hopes for the country next year," he added.

"If I want to train full time for the Olympics, I can't get a normal job. I haven't got a lot of money at all."
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Re: Thread for the London Olympics 2012!
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2011, 10:44:47 AM »
Britain supports its athletes probably better than any other country. Google "British athlete lottery funding'. They DO, however, have performance requirements to get that money, and 20.5 is not getting it done. Most of the British sprinters have been under performing, from Chambers and Mark Lewis Francis on down the ranks.

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With 200 days to go to London, this is where we stand...
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2012, 03:19:30 PM »
http://www.tntreview.com/category/sports/

POISED FOR LONDON
Posted on 07 January 2012.


Few people have as sure a grasp on the London Olympics than Ato Boldon. The four-time Olympic medal winner is a broadcast analyst for track and field with US TV networks CBS and NBC and is primed for NBC’s coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Last week, he was in Trinidad to host the SPORTT Awards during which he made time for an interview with the T&T Review.

TTR:   Ato, London 2012 is now just over a half a year away. Are you satisfied that as far as Team T&T are concerned all systems are go? And do you think we have done what needed to be done after Beijing?
AB: We are on a nice streak, dating back to 1996, our longest ever, by far, where we have earned at least one medal in every Summer Olympics. Prior to that, we had a 20-year drought. The country has never won more than two medals at any Games, but 2012 could set a new precedent. I think we will win medals on the men’s side in the sprint relay and in events we never have before, maybe even in cycling, and win our first Olympic medal on the women’s side.

What would be your projections in terms of a possible medal haul? Are we likely to do better than we did in 2008 in Beijing?
Beijing was two – 100m silver and 4x100m relay silver. I think we will surpass that, which would be our best-ever total.

Where do you think our best chances of winning a medal lie? Can we realistically expect Kelly-Ann Baptiste to repeat or will she go one better? What about Richard Thompson? Has he gone off the boil or will he be back by July/August?
Kelly-Ann is the country’s best medal threat. Richard hasn’t won a 100m medal since the last Olympics, but is under a new coach who I think is the best in the world, so he will be prepared.

Is it too much to expect our relay teams, both men and women, to be among the medals this year?
Not at all. The men’s team was the most consistent in the world from the period 2001 to 2009, with three World Championship silvers and one Olympic silver, and the women just had their highest global final finish ever this year with fourth, with very young athletes. They are both likely to medal.

Remembering what happened last time around with the National Championships, are you satisfied that the necessary arrangements are in place for our athletes to be at their very best come July/August?
That is unlikely to happen again, so I feel reasonably certain that it will be a controversy-free Olympic trials for T&T.

The world now expects Jamaica to be high up on the medals table as far as the track events go. Can the Jamaicans maintain their recent outstanding performances on the track? Can they continue to upstage the Americans who will certainly be intent on recapturing the sprint crowns that the Jamaicans wrested from them in Beijing?
After Beijing, when some thought that the Jamaican team’s performance was an anomaly, I said Beijing would be the games people would look back on as the start of Jamaican sprint dominance. The following year, they got even more medals than they did at the Olympics at World Championships, but slipped in 2011 at the next World Championships, and the USA bounced back in a big way. I expect Jamaica’s London haul to be slightly behind their Beijing medal count total.

What about Usain Bolt? What can we expect from him this time around? More world records?
I think that’s unlikely this coming season, but not impossible where Bolt, who loves the global spotlight, is concerned, at the Games in London. He may have to break two world records to defeat his training partner and reigning world 100m champion Yohan Blake, who is a legitimate threat to him in BOTH the 100m and 200m events in London.

Is there any chance that there will be a change in the disqualification-on-first-false-start rule or will the IOC stick to its guns?
The earliest that rule will be changed is 2013, so it means we are probably stuck with it for at least two more seasons.

What can we expect from the rest of the world? Does Europe—France, Germany, Italy, Greece—have any exciting new prospects likely to be able to keep pace with the Jamaicans and the Americans?
Europe has two medal threats. Christophe Lemaitre of France who ran 19.80 for third at this year’s World Championships in the 200m. Jaysuma Ndure of Norway is the other; he was fourth in that 200m race, and is now a training partner of our own Richard Thompson.

What about the African domination of the distance events? Are we likely to see them extending that or are the others who have been threatening to spoil the party for them finally going to do so convincingly?
Ethiopia or Kenya is the question, when we talk events above 1500m. Kenya had a World Championships in 2011 that was as dominant as Jamaica’s Beijing Olympics in the sprints. Ethiopia will not fail to respond in 2012.

What about the problem of drugs? Are we any closer to having drug-free games than we were, say, a decade or so ago?
Blood testing is certainly a step in the right direction and Olympic athletes are blood tested now, but what I read indicates that there is never a foolproof test for everything. Ever. We just have to hope that what we see isn’t then found out to not be above board.

Do you think that, with 26 sports on the roster, the Games have grown too big and unwieldy and need to be brought back down to some manageable size? I mean, can cities really afford to stage the Games as they are currently organized or are they doomed to be financial flops even if they succeed as television spectacles?

The Olympics’ economic feasibility is certainly a relevant topic, as Greece adds “Olympic Hosting Costs” to its long list of unpaid bills. The UK has had some cost overruns, particularly in security. Countries will still line up and have multi-million dollar bids for the opportunity to host future Games. I haven’t heard any complaints about the Olympics getting too big. With multiple media platforms, there is always room to air more events, and the audience will decide what they want to watch and what they’d rather not see.
The Olympic motto is “Citius, altius, fortius.” Is this a mere slogan? Does it sound more and more to your ear like “the Greatest Show on Earth” with which I am sure you are familiar?
I am cynical about many things. The Olympic motto is not one of them. When I experience an Olympic Games, I feel as though it’s the only thing mankind has left to unite us and remind us how to live with each other - sport.

Ato, every Olympic year, the issue of the bias in the television coverage resurfaces. The American mega-channels pay stupendous amounts for the right to broadcast the Games exclusively and then we here at home only get to see events featuring Americans. Is there any solution to that problem? Is there anything that can realistically be done to ensure that the Caribbean athletes get their just desserts insofar as the television coverage is concerned?
I work for the American host broadcaster, and there is no exclusivity for NBC outside of the USA. I challenge anyone to say that in 2008 NBC ignored whatever “the story” currently going on was in my sport, track and field, to focus solely on “Americans”. As far as who T&T will get to see, I am amazed that people watching a broadcast which originates from another country complain that they don’t see their own enough. I watched the Olympics from Australia, and saw lots of Australian-focused coverage. I watched the Olympics in Greece-same thing. To see local stars, a local station must go, and broadcast. It’s as simple as that. The Jamaicans broadcast their own signal from the Olympics so they can control what their viewers want to see. Any national broadcaster will show primarily what is important to the viewers in THEIR country. Imagine that.

What are Ato Boldon’s plans for London 2012? Will you be a part of the NBC panel once more?
I will be in London to cover my second Olympic Games. 2012 will be my sixth year as the sprint analyst for NBC.

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Re: With 200 days to go to London, this is where we stand...
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Nice interview and great insight as always....

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Re: With 200 days to go to London, this is where we stand...
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Yeah, very nice!!  :beermug:
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Re: Thread for the London Olympics 2012!
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2012, 09:36:09 PM »
Bump!

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Felix eyes sprint double in London
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2012, 12:01:10 AM »
I believe she must have been encouraged to go for the 100m by Jeter's suspected injury or drop in form.
Let’s hope KAB and the other Caribbean athletes can make her regret this decision.

http://www.iol.co.za/sport/athletics/felix-eyes-sprint-double-in-london-1.1322405#.T-B7vZEcrPE

Felix eyes sprint double in London
June 19 2012 at 11:53am
By Reuters


Eugene, Oregon – Sprinter Allyson Felix will focus on the 100 and 200 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials and forgo an attempt at a 400-200 double in London, her coach has told Reuters.

The decision gives Felix her best chance of winning Olympic gold in the 200 after two consecutive silver medals and for running the 4x100 and 4x400 relays at the Games, Bob Kersee said in a telephone call from Los Angeles late on Monday.

“It will be easier for her, as well as helping the team out, if she runs the 1 and the 2,” Kersee said of the upcoming trials, which begin on Thursday and continue through July 1.

“If something happens in the 100, she still has enough time to recover and make the team in the 200,” the coach said of the two events, whose finals are a week apart.

Felix attempted to win both the 400 and 200 at last year's world championships in South Korea, but finished third in the 200 after taking second in the 400. She had won three consecutive world 200 titles before the loss.

“I just didn't feel like myself (in the 200),” Felix said in April when asked about her world championships. “I didn't have normal burst in the home stretch.”

She asked Kersee to put more emphasis on speed work this season and they developed a competition schedule that so far has included only 100s and 200s.

She looked exceptionally sharp early in the season, running a 100 meters personal best in Doha.

But a fourth place finish in her latest 100 in New York on June 9 left some wondering if she would attempt more than just the 200 at the trials in Eugene, Oregon.

“We weren't quiet prepared to run the 100 in New York, but we ran it anyway,” Kersee said. “But we have had some good training since coming back.”

World champion Carmelite Jester leads a strong group of 100 runners at the trials and Sana Richards-Ross, the year's fastest at both 200 and 400, is expected to challenge Felix in the 200.

Only the top three finishers in each event make the American team. There are no exceptions. – Reuters
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Olympic Torch bearer goes to London
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2012, 10:47:10 PM »
http://www.tntmirror.com/2012/06/24/olympic-torch-bearer-goes-to-london

Olympic Torch bearer goes to London
By Peter Balroop - June 24th 2012 12:17 PM


LONG distance runner and avid dragon boat racer, Toco Secondary student, 18-year-old Shaquille Roberts was due to leave T&T this Saturday (June 23) with his Physical Education teacher, Avianne Tobias to take part in the Olympic Torch relay in England.
 
He is taking along his prized pair of Adidas running shoes that he received as a gift from Prince Edward when he visited Trinidad earlier this year.

“This talented young man is writing his name in our local history book by being the first person from the Caribbean to have the privilege of participating in an “Olympic Torch” relay, says Maria Pereira, a Galera Park, Toco resident who has taken a special interest in Roberts whose participation in the Olympic Torch relay is part of the ‘International Inspiration’ sports legacy programme of 2012 London Olympics.
 
Roberts has a speech impediment that developed, it was learnt, following an operation when he was one year old to remove a battery he had accidentally swallowed. The battery was removed via a nostril.
 
The target of the programme was to reach 12 million children from 20 countries. T&T was one such country, and Shaquille Roberts from Toco Secondary is one of these 12 million children.
 
Pereira stated one student was selected from each of the 20 countries was invited to participate in the torch relay on Thursday, June 28 That date is Day 41 of the Torch Run and it will take place in the county of Nottinghamshire.
 
The 20 bearers will each run one mile from Lincoln to Nottingham.
 
“Shaquille was chosen from this country on the basis of his commitment to training, involvement in the ‘International Inspiration’ Programme in his school and community and his very positive outlook on life.
 
He was one of five students short listed from a field of 200 applicants from Trinidad and Tobago and was eventually chosen.
 
“Shaquille is a long distance runner and an avid Dragon Boat racer. In July 2011, he represented this country at the World Dragon Boat Championships in Tampa, Florida in which our team brought home seven medals.
 “Shaquille attended training for that tournament four days a week from 5.30-8.30 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays, returning home to Toco every evening so as not to miss school the next day.
 “That feat alone speaks volumes of the dedication and time management skills of this young aspiring athlete,” Pereira noted.
 “As a national community longing for some good news, we congratulate this young man on his achievement and wish him well as he writes his name in our history book. Bon voyage Shaquille!” she added.
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Jamaican Quarrie hails venue for pre-Olympic Jamaican camp in Birmingham
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2012, 12:12:35 PM »
Wonder if there are any officials from our NAAA TT or TTOC who have gone ahead to the UK to ensure that the Camp being allocated for our T&T Olympic team is up to our expectations like the Jamaicans have done?

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Quarrie hails venue for pre-Olympic camp
BY DANIA BOGLE Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, June 27, 2012


JAMAICA's athletes at the pre-Olympic Games training camp in Birmingham, England starting on July 15, will have top-class facilities which should make getting down to the task at hand — preparing to win medals — easier, says technical leader of the Olympic team Donald Quarrie.
 
"The facilities in Birmingham are superb, so we won't have any problem with that at all, so it's just a matter of getting the personalities to gel and to get everyone to focus on what they have to do when the time comes," Quarrie told the Jamaica Observer in a recent interview.


Quarrie was alluding to the fact that in the past, some members of national teams to athletic championships have complained about the types of facilities available at pre-event training camps.
 
In 2009, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack was forced to intervene when the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (now-Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association) barred a number of athletes from competing at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany because they had not participated in the camp held in Nuremberg.
 
Quarrie is not anticipating any such problems this time around.
 
"By and large, we anticipate that the group will gel fairly well and by the time we get to London, we figure that it will just be 'Let's do it'."
 
The English weather is remarkably unpredictable, and so Quarrie is hoping that the arrival of the athletes on the 15th and the stay in the Midlands will help them prepare before moving to London where the athletics events will be staged.
 
"We're hoping that the athletes will be able to get there, get adjusted to the weather, to the environment, and get along with each other," he said.
 
Several athletes, namely those from the MVP Track and Field Club, are based in Italy during the summer months.
 
"The preparation at the training camp is vital to some athletes because some... need that period to train leading up to the Games. A few athletes will be competing and then coming back to the camp," he explained.
 
The facilities in Birmingham were offered to the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) years ago, which made finding a venue for the usual pre-Olympic training camp a non-issue, which has oftentimes not been the case in the past.
 
However, Quarrie admitted that knowing where they would be heading so far in advance does not necessarily make his job as technical leader any less challenging.
 
"It doesn't make it any easier because the job entails co-operation among the coaches and athletes and administrative staff," he said.
 
Quarrie has held that post in the past, but JAAA vice-president Grace Jackson held the post in 2011 for the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
 
Quarrie told the Observer that the local governing body's administration had decided when it was first elected that no one man would have the job indefinitely.
 
"We had anticipated that in 2005 a few of us would do certain things and then we would gradually move in some more people because we're not in it to take over; we're in it to build, so we want other individuals to do what needs to be done so that we cover all of the areas and in 10 years we'll still be moving along."
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We are Conquerors
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2012, 09:59:25 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2012-07-02/we-are-conquerors

We are Conquerors

Kes - We Are Conquerors (2012 Island Pop / Celebrating 50 years of T&T Independence)
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The Olympics have always had a soundtrack. Music and culture cannot be separated from the Olympic Games nor can education. Dating back to its recorded inception way back in 776 BC the Olympic Games was always more than just a competition or sporting event. A quick peek at Olympic history will show that art, poetry, literature, music and singing have always had a place in the Olympic festival. Music has always featured at the Olympic Games. Admittedly in modern times the battle for the soul of the Games is fierce. On one side are those who see the games as nothing more than a battle for medal supremacy, then there are the idealist who fight hard to retain the holistic essence of the games. Then there are the hard nose pragmatists for whom the priority is the commercial side of the games. What is not in question is the scale and magnitude of the Olympic Games. It still remains for most, not all, but a large percentage of the world’s premier sportsmen and women, the pinnacle of their sporting career. To be crowned Olympic champion is still a cherished aim.
 
Last Friday, the T&T London 2012 Olympic team was officially announced. A week ago the T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) hosted a breakfast which was attended by His Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards, patron of the National Olympic Committee. Following the breakfast, the T&T Olympic hopefuls reached out to the public during a motorcade from the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), along Frederick Street to Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain. In keeping with the timeless tradition, Kes the band, released an inspirational song, “We Are Conquerors” for the athletes who will be going to London for the Olympics. 
 
Danielle Jones, manager, corporate communications at BpTT said the company wanted to do something locally and culturally relevant and were happy to partner with Kes the band for an anthem for the T&T Olympic team. In 1894, when Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin organised a meeting at the Sorbonne to revive the Olympics, Gabriel Faure’s “Hymn to Apollo” was performed. In recent years songs created for the Olympics such as “Reach Out” and “Hand in Hand” by Giorgio Moroder have had an inspirational impact. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote for the 1992 Barcelona Games, “Amigos Para Sempre” (Friends for Life). In 1996, we had “The Power of the Dream” by Celine Dion, and also “Reach” by Gloria Estefan. In Sydney, “Dare to Dream” by Olivia Newton John and John Farnham.  “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis is another Olympic song that won many friends. The words and music of one T&T’s London 2012 Olympic songs live up to the age old Olympic tradition of inspirational and motivational Olympic music.
 
We Are Conquerors!
Go for gold,
Go for glory,
It’s your time,
Tell your story,
It’s all that you dreamed of and more...
Put up a fight and don't give up,
You’ll find a way and reach the top,
Cause you know we believe,
You can make it,
It’s your chance,
Time to take it,
It’s all that you dreamed of...
It’s all that you dreamed of ... Yeah.
 
Passion and Energy
We want the whole world to see,
Show me determination,
You got it , you have it
You know this day would come,
Your journey’s just begun
We’ll live this moment
Yeah we believe that you...
 
Can show the world,
Show the world,
Let’s show the world
That We Are Conquerors!
Show the world,
Show the world,
Let’s show the world...
 
Join the Team,
Join this mission,
Twin island, One nation..
Courage, Inspiration
You can reach,
There’s no limitation..
 
Brian Lewis is the Honorary Secretary General of the T&T Olympic Committee www.ttoc.org The views expressed are not necessarily those of the TTOC.
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« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2012, 10:10:23 PM »
http://newsday.co.tt/sport/0,162655.html

Monday, July 2 2012

FORMER Secretary of the National Association of Athletic Administration (NAAAs), Clyde Forde, has said he will file an injunction to stop the country’s Track and Field team from going to the Olympics if the general council is not given the minutes concerning the selection of the Olympic team.

Yesterday Forde quoted from Article 21 of the Track and Field constitution which states that all minutes of executives must be submitted to the general council of that council.

He said he watched the television a few days ago and was amazed to hear the team for the Olympic Games announced, although the general council had not gotten the opportunity to see the minutes of the meeting to select it.

He made it clear that the constitution dictates that the NAAAs is supposed to submit all minutes to the general council for approval. “But to date we have not seen the minutes and we don’t know what is happening,” Forde said.

Forde, who is being supported by other members of the general council, is saying that the general council has been overlooked for years and feels that it should put its foot down this time.

Quizzed as to whether there was anything that they were dissatisfied about Forde said yes.

The general council which comprises executive members of each club, Forde said, is not happy with some of the administrators chosen to go to London, England for the Olympics.

He said also that they were unsure of the times that were produced by some of the athletes. The 31 member team to represent TT at the Olympics was announced on Friday last and comprised Kelly Ann Baptiste and Keston Bledman who are expected to lead the team at the games.

The team also comprised a number of administrators who, according to Forde, were questionable.

Though Forde did not say who were the administrators they were concerned about, Newsday understands that the general council wants replacements for Dr Ian Hypolite who is the headcoach; Dexter Voisin (Manager) and Gunness Persad who is the coach for the sprint hurdles.

Forde explained that there were ex Olympians such as Neil De Silva, Ian Morris, Charlie Joseph and Alvin Daniel who were available to make vital contributions to the TT team and assist the athletes in bringing home more medals, but were not being given the opportunity.

“There is a cabal within the NAAAs executives that are sharing the trips among themselves. It appears difficult to make a dent in that group of people but the general council, which has the power to approve all decisions by the executives, is against this,” Forde said.

Meanwhile, Alan Baboolal, secretary of the NAAAs said the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) ratified the team on Friday. He explained that after the National Open Championships on June 23 and 24 they had briefed the TTOC on what the team was going to look like.

Baboolal dismissed talks that the NAAAs was to submit minutes to the general council, saying he does not know what Forde was talking about. Attempts were also made to contact president of the NAAAs Ephraim Serrette but that proved futile.

However, Baboolal said his association will have an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday.

 

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Relay teams qualified for London 2012
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2012, 03:17:14 PM »
http://www.trackalerts.com/index.php/news/latest-stories/7281-relay-teams-qualified-for-london-2012

Relay teams qualified for London 2012
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Created on Tuesday, 03 July 2012 17:37


Monaco – The qualification period for the men's and women's 4x100m and 4x400m Relays at the Games of the XXX Olympiad, London 2012 ended on Monday 2 July.   

The IAAF is pleased to confirm the following 16 teams, per each of the four relays, which have qualified to compete are as follows:
 
Men 4x100m
1 JAM
2 USA
3 FRA
4 GBR
5 TRI
6 BRA
7 GER
8 POL
9 SKN
10 HKG
11 CAN
12 ITA
13 JPN
14 CHN
15 AUS
16 NED

Men 4x400m
1 USA
2 RSA
3 JAM
4 CUB
5 RUS
6 BEL
7 GBR
8 BAH
9 GER
10 TRI
11 KEN
12 VEN
13 AUS
14 DOM
15 JPN
16 POL

Women 4x100m
1 USA
2 JAM
3 UKR
4 FRA
5 GER
6 NGR
7 NED
8 RUS
9 BRA
10 POL
11 TRI
12 COL
13 JPN
14 SUI
15 BAH
16 BLR

Women 4x400m
1 USA
2 RUS
3 JAM
4 GBR
5 UKR
6 BLR
7 CZE
8 FRA
9 NGR
10 CUB
11 GER
12 ITA
13 IRL
14 BRA
15 POL
16 TUR

PS: If we aim to beat both USA & Jamaica in the Relays we take part in then we should medal!  ;D
We also need to get our Women's 4x400m Relay team up to speed!!
Hopefully our women will be up to speed in the 4x400m relay by the next World Championships in 2013.
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Fraser-Pryce unsure about doubling in London
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2012, 04:40:31 PM »
http://www.trackalerts.com/index.php/news/lead-stories/7278-fraser-pryce-unsure-about-100-200m-in-london

Fraser-Pryce unsure about 100/200m in London
Written by By Anthony Foster, anthonyfos@gmail.com
Created on Tuesday, 03 July 2012 15:18


KINGSTON, Jamaica - Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who won the sprint double at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships, is yet to decide if she will attempt both events at the London Olympic Games.

Fraser-Pryce, who ran two personal best times, 10.70 to lower her own Jamaican 100m record and 22.10 in the 200m, was asked if she will double in London, she replied: "I can't answer that yet."
 
However, after beating two-time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaica's most decorated athlete of all-time, having won gold, silver and bronze medals at all levels of track & field, Fraser-Pryce said the weekend runs had left her drained.

"I am tired, mentally I am drained, because I pb twice this weekend and within a short space of time. I came in here with a sore leg from last night, I felt really tired, but thanks be to God I came out healthy," she told journalists after Sunday's 200m final.
 
When asked about her performance in the 200m, Fraser-Pryce, who is also the 2009 World 100m champion, said: "I am still learning it."
 
She went on to say, "today was about execution, not so much about the win ... I am glad I came out with the win, but about running the corner with a good enough speed, and blasting the next 100m."
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Olympic Team songs for both Jamaica and T&T!
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2012, 08:46:29 PM »
Official Jamaica Team Song for London 2012 Olympics
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Not sure if this song by Kes is T&T's official team song but it seems to have been endorsed by TTOC (see Reply #17 above).
There is also supposed to be a T&T Team Song due out by Machel Montano but I am yet to hear it!  :whistling:

Kes - We Are Conquerors (2012 Island Pop / Celebrating 50 years of T&T Independence)
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PS: If this Kes song is the Official T&T Olympic Team Song then they need to do a nice official music video featuring members of our T&T squad!  :beermug:


This song by Machel alongside Beta One below will also make a great Olympic Island Pop Team Song with some slight adjustment to the words! Really nice inspirational song!!  :beermug:

Beta One feat. Machel Montano - Reach On Out For Love
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Bad tune Kes!  Leh we do it TT, looking forward to the games
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I was to comment on this tune. Damn nice. And yes, it should have been accompanied with the video of out Olimpic and WC athletes. Good luck to all out athletes.

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Forde explained that there were ex Olympians such as Neil De Silva, Ian Morris, Charlie Joseph and Alvin Daniel who were available to make vital contributions to the TT team and assist the athletes in bringing home more medals, but were not being given the opportunity.

Is a pity these guys have to look on from the outside.

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Forde explained that there were ex Olympians such as Neil De Silva, Ian Morris, Charlie Joseph and Alvin Daniel who were available to make vital contributions to the TT team and assist the athletes in bringing home more medals, but were not being given the opportunity.

Is a pity these guys have to look on from the outside.
No foresight from the NAAA as per usual and too many officials who just picking up space and money and want to ride on our athletes backs for a free vacation to London.
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T&T relays squads qualify for Olympics
« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2012, 11:52:41 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2012-07-04/tt-relays-squads-qualify-olympics

T&T relays squads qualify for Olympics
Published: Thursday, July 5, 2012
Clayton Clarke


T&T’s men’s 4x100m, 4x400m and women’s 4x100m relay teams have qualified for the London Olympic Games set for July 27 to August 12. The teams were selected based on their top 16 rankings on the IAAF best relay performances listings by the July 2 deadline. The men’s sprint team is fifth with an average time of 38.40 seconds following its 37.91 clocking in the heats of last year’s World Championships in Daegu, South Korea and 38.89 at the 2011 CAC Senior Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Reigning Olympic gold medalists Jamaica are at number one ahead of arch-rival USA, France and Great Britain.
 
The T&T squad will include members of the national team which won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They are reigning Olympic 100m silver medallist Richard Thompson, recently crown national champion Keston Bledman, veteran Marc Burns and Emmanuel Callender. World Championships 200m finalist Rondel Sorillo and 20-year-old Jamol James have also been named.
 
St Kitts/Nevis is the third Caribbean team to have qualified in the event for London, and is at ninth in the standings. 
 
The national men’s 4x400m outfit is 10th in the mile relay listings. The team has an average time of 3:01.05 following its national record run of 3:00:45 at the Sagicor/NGC Open Championships on June 24 and its 2011 CAC Championships silver medal performance of 3:01.65. The 4X400m squad includes the national record setting quartet of Renny Quow, Lalonde Gordon, Deon Lendore and Jarrin Solomon. Teenager Machel Cedenio and Ade Alleyne-Forte are the reserves on the team. USA, South Africa and Jamaica are the top three teams. Bahamas is the other Caribbean team to qualify. The women’s sprint team is at 11th with an average time of 43.28. The foursome sped to a national mark of 43.21 in the Bahamas on June 16 after clocking 43.35 earlier in the day. Semoy Hackett, Kai Selvon and Michelle-Lee Ahye were the other members of the team and have been named on the London contingent along with Reyare Thomas and Sparkle McKnight.
 
Relay teams qualified for London 2012
 
Men’s 4x100m

Jamaica, US, France, Great Britain, T&T, Brazil, Germany, Poland, St Kitts/Nevis, Hong Kong, Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Australia and Netherland
 
Men’s 4x400m
US, South Africa, Jamaica, Cuba, Russia, Belgium, Great Britain, Bahamas, Germany, T&T, Kenya, Venezuela, Australia, Dominican Republic, Japan and Poland
 
Women’s 4x100m
US, Jamaica, Ukraine, France, Germany, Nigeria, Netherlands, Russia, Brazil, Poland, T&T, Colombia, Japan, Switzerland, Bahamas and Belarus
 
Women’s 4x400m
US, Russia, Jamaica, Great Britain, Ukraine, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Nigeria, Cuba, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Brazil, Poland and Turkey
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LONDON (AP) -- Armed British police carried out an early-morning raid on a residential address near London's Olympic Park on Thursday, using smoke grenades and a stun gun in what they called a pre-planned anti-terror operation.
 
A total of six people were arrested there and in separate raids in other parts of the capital, but Scotland Yard said the operation was not linked to the upcoming games, due to kick off on July 27.
 
Police didn't identify the suspects, who range in age from 18 to 30.
 
However Mizanur Rahman, who is involved with a Muslim activist group, said all those arrested were British Muslims. He said the three men taken into custody in Stratford, the neighborhood that contains Olympic Park, were brothers and claimed that one was a former police support officer.
 
Scotland Yard declined to comment on the claim.
 
Resident John Smallshaw said a raid took place at a residence on Abbey Road, only about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Olympic Park.
 
He told The Associated Press he was awoken just after 4 a.m. by "five loud bangs in quick succession" and saw police raiding the home. He said he later witnessed "one young man taken on foot to a waiting ambulance."
 
Another man was later taken into an unmarked police car, Smallshaw said, adding that plainclothes officers were still at the premises.
 
Continuing searches are being carried out at eight separate addresses in east, west and north London and at one business in east London, police said. Rahman identified one of the addresses as being in Old Street, near London's financial district.
 
Police said all the suspects have been taken to a southeast London police station.
 
Intelligence officials say there has been an expected increase in chatter among extremist groups ahead of the games, but there are still no specific or credible threats targeting the Olympics. Last week two Muslim men were arrested - and later released without charge - after they were spotted canoeing on the River Lee, a branch of which runs through the Olympic site.
 
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not really surprised.

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Thomas aims for Olympic finals
« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2012, 12:28:51 AM »
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2012-07-05/thomas-aims-olympic-finals

Thomas aims for Olympic finals
Published: Friday, July 6, 2012
Clayton Clarke


Mikel Thomas is one of two national sprint hurdles to qualify to represent T&T at the London Olympics. The 24-year-old qualified for his second straight Olympic after his 13.48 personal best run at the Texas Relays in Austin Texas, USA on 31 March, missing the then national record of 13.43 by Steve Brown. He then sealed his Olympic spot with a 13.51 run at the Star Athletics Invite in Florida last month getting under the 13.52 Olympic A standard for the second time. The University of Kentucky graduate was named in the 31-member squad announced by the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) on Friday. The Kansas based athlete joins Wayne Davis as the other 110m competitor following Davis’ national record run of 13.37 at the Big 12 Championships in May. Thomas was a quarterfinalist in at the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he was sixth in a then personal best of 13.62 but he says his goal in London is to make it into the medal round.
 
“My goal is to make the finals especially as this is my second Olympics having made it to the quarterfinals four years ago. I will then give it all that I have,” he said. As part of his preparations the Maloney-born hurdler moved to Kansas where he said he was able to learn more on his event. Thomas said: “I am from New York but I am based in Kansas where I also coach and because I coach I have become more a student of the sport and that is probably one of the main reasons for the big improvement his year.”
 
He describes his decision as a risk as he was now on his own. “New York is nice but it is distracting,” he said. “I’d rather be in Kansas where I can focus on what I need to do. Unfortunately I am by myself but I have taken the time to become more educated in my event.  It is a technical event and because I am by myself I had to make sure I do everything to the best of my ability.” The Exercise Science graduate was third in the national championships clocking in 13.99 behind Davis (13.61) and Durrell Busby (13.81). The heats of the 100m hurdles are set for August 7 with the semifinals and finals carded for August 8. Thomas won the 2008 National and the 2010 Penn Relays Olympic Development 110m hurdles titles and has personal best in the 400m hurdles and the indoor 60m hurdles of 51.40 and 7.73 respectively. He is the son of Hayden Thomas and Gail Barton.
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