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Usain Bolt orders special bed to boost his gold medal prospects
« Reply #60 on: July 19, 2012, 11:31:25 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/9410170/London-2012-Olympics-Usain-Bolt-orders-special-bed-to-boost-his-gold-medal-prospects.html

London 2012 Olympics: Usain Bolt orders special bed to boost his gold medal prospects
By John Percy
11:50PM BST 18 Jul 2012

Usain Bolt is sleeping in a specially designed orthopaedic bed at his training base in Birmingham to ensure he does not suffer a recurrence of the back and hamstring injuries which disrupted his planning for London 2012.


Bolt, the London Games’ leading attraction, arrived at Jamaica's training camp at the University of Birmingham on Sunday but after his first two nights there, his coach Glen Mills raised concerns about his bed.

Mills asked for it to be replaced by a custom-built 7ft mattress, which Bolt used for the first time on Tuesday night.

The Olympic 100 metres and 200m champion withdrew from Thursday’s grand prix in Monaco after complaining of tightness in his hamstring in the aftermath of his defeat by Yohan Blake at the Jamaican Olympic trials last month.

Zena Wooldridge, the director of sport at the University of Birmingham, said: “There was a fear Usain would be uncomfortable with his bed so in the last few days we’ve had a special orthopaedic mattress made for him.

“Coach Mills wanted the bed made as a precaution so Usain was as comfortable as possible. We used a bed company to supply us with half a dozen 7ft beds for some other athletes so they made us the new mattress. Usain spent his first night in it on Tuesday.

“It’s absolutely critical that the athletes are looked after while they’re staying in Birmingham so we were only too happy to help.”
 
Bolt, who is 6ft 5in and has a chronic back problem he has had to manage throughout his record-breaking exploits on the track, flew to see controversial German Dr ‘Healing’ Hans Müller-Wohlfahrt after withdrawing from the meeting in Monaco.
 
As well as Bolt’s orthopaedic mattress, six other 7ft beds have been made for the other taller Jamaican athletes.
 
The Jamaicans are using the University of Birmingham campus, based in Edgbaston, as their pre-Olympics training camp until next Thursday, when they will move down to London in time for the opening ceremony.
 
The team consists of 50 athletes, including current 100m world champion Blake and women’s World 200m gold medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown, plus around 25 staff.
 
The university began their preparations to care for the team five years ago and all has been designed to make the Jamaicans feel as much at home as possible – with painstaking attention even being paid to the food on offer in the restaurant.
 
However, Wayne Willis, who is the site’s sous chef and has worked there since 2003, revealed there has been one glaring absence from the menu.
 
“We’ve managed to source most of the food apart from a whole goat’s head,” he said. “We asked the butchers we use but struggled to get one so we’ve used diced goat meat instead and there haven’t been any complaints.
 
"We’ve also got about 95 per cent of the fruits and vegetables except for callaloo, which is a type of cabbage.
 
“I’ve been working with a Jamaican chef, Thomas, who’s come over especially and we’ve really hit it off as we’re trying to meet the same common goal. He liaised with some of the athletes and the feedback has been very good.”
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Jamaicans endure cold weather while Britons, Americans flee
« Reply #61 on: July 20, 2012, 11:20:29 AM »
Let's hope the T&T Camp are doing like the Britons and the Americans to escape the bad British weather.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Jamaicans-endure-cold-weather-while-Britons--Americans-flee-#ixzz21BOpIDFy

Jamaicans endure cold weather while Britons, Americans flee
BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, July 20, 2012


BIRMINGHAM, England — News reaching the Jamaica Observer team are that while the Jamaican track and field athletes who have arrived at the training base are competing with poor weather conditions, the British track and field team as well as members of the USA and other countries have sought warmer climates to continue their preparations.
 
The weather has been very cool here with the weak sun coming out for short periods only to be covered by thick grey clouds with periods of intermittent rain.
 
The temperature plummeted yesterday and at least three athletes, who were among a group that went to a popular shopping mall in the centre of the city, complained of being 'cold' and wore heavy sweat suits.
 
The British team is reported to be in Portugal where it is said to be sunny and warm while members of the USA sprint contingent were in Spain where they had similar warm conditions.
 
There were also media reports of African athletes fleeing the cool climates of the United Kingdom to seek warmth and sunshine elsewhere.
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Let's hope the T&T Camp are doing like the Britons and the Americans to escape the bad British weather.

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Maybe, staying put will be best. What do they say? "what won't kill you will make you stronger?"
Regular emphasis on properly warming up during final workouts will be beneficial in advance of the games, whereas coming in from very warm weather may be more of a shock to the body; it may backfire on the other teams. No sense running away from the inevitable, British weather during the OG.
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Maybe, staying put will be best. What do they say? "what won't kill you will make you stronger?"
Regular emphasis on properly warming up during final workouts will be beneficial in advance of the games, whereas coming in from very warm weather may be more of a shock to the body; it may backfire on the other teams. No sense running away from the inevitable, British weather during the OG.

I agree STMB. This is good fine tuning. Caribbean sprinters are accustomed to running in bright sunny weather. With the likelihood of having overcast weather in London.. Training in bad conditions as opposed to good conditions, is a good idea.

Last I checked, Trinidad was doing their training in Wales. Wales has the same weather conditions as London. So, maybe we might benefit as well.

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Most of our athletes campaigned in the US. They should not be strangers to cold weather. Do what they do when in the US.

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forecast for next week is mid-twenties (celsius) which is ideal.

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Serrette expects relay success
« Reply #67 on: July 21, 2012, 12:02:15 AM »
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Serrette_expects_relay_success-163262916.html

Serrette expects relay success
By Kwame Laurence kwame.laurence@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Jul 20, 2012 at 11:59 PM ECT


National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) president, Ephraim Serrette is anticipating relay success at the July 27-August 12 Olympic Games, in London, England.
 
Trinidad and Tobago will field teams in the men's 4x100 metres, women's 4x100m and men's 4x400m events.
 
Serrette told the Express he does not like making predictions, but is confident all three relay teams will do well. The former sprinter is particularly excited about T&T's 4x4 prospects.
 
"The men's 4x4, from my knowledge, I think they have a better chance than the other relays."
 
At last month's National Championships, Renny Quow, Lalonde Gordon, Jarrin Solomon and Deon Lendore combined for a new national record, the T&T quartet stopping the clock at three minutes, 00.45 seconds. Gordon and Solomon subsequently improved their personal best clockings in the individual 400m. Gordon produced a 45.02 seconds run in Nebraska, USA, while Solomon clocked 45.31 in Bottrop, Germany.
 
"With the recent performances of the quarter-milers, we should do well."

Serrette said Keston Bledman's injury is not serious, and that he expects the national sprint champion to be a serious contender for a men's 100m medal at the London Games. The NAAA president is also anticipating success for Kelly-Ann Baptiste in the women's 100m.
 
Serrette said javelin thrower Keshorn Walcott's participation at the Games is a significant development for T&T track and field. Last week, in Barcelona, Spain, Walcott captured the world junior title.
 
"As a junior athlete, making the final 12 at the Olympics would be a major achievement. It would open doors for other athletes in an event we're not traditionally strong in. It's not just about sprinting. We've been having the Multi-event Championships to expose athletes to all the events."
 
T&T will be represented by 30 athletes at the London Games, including 25 in track and field. Serrette said this is due in part to the development work being done by the NAAA.
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The 4x400m relay team should perform well on paper. Hope each member brings or betters their current form, that Quow steps in up his times when it counts, and that they get a lot of passing exchange practice - that and coaching incoming runners to expect to sprint 410m can gain a team 1-2 seconds if done properly.

The 4x100m relay team is also looking very good for medal contention. Funny how in the shorter relay it is more about fluid baton exchanges than the amount of speed on paper.

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I don't think that training in cold weather can be more benficial..just does not make sense.

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Preparing for say the Penn Relays in NY vs FL does make a difference especially if competition weekend in spring turns out to be colder vs. warmer. Your body tends to be more prepared to respond to the cooler competition conditions than if you flew in a few days before from a much warmer climate. In the case of the latter, as much as you try, you tend to run more stiffly as your body is still bracing from the change in conditions. How long your body takes to adjust varies from athlete to athlete; have experienced it personally.

In some recent articles some of the British and French sprinters have stated that the difference in PBs between them and the US and Jamaicans will not have as big an effect, due to them being more accustomed to training and competing the cooler weather.

The risk however to training in Wales for the T&T athletes is that they need to be instructed daily to spend extra time warming up and warming down, and wearing the proper gear, else they will be susceptible to injuries.

The realities are: 1. T&T does not have the budget to go elsewhere at this late stage, and 2. The OG competition is not just a couple of days, it will last more than a week in conditions that may likely be rainy and cool. The better prepared and adjusted they are, the greater their probability of competing well.

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http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,163690.html

Boldon inspires TT athletes
Sunday, July 22 2012

FOUR-TIME Olympic medallist Ato Boldon was the star of the show yesterday as he delivered a motivational speech to the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic athletes and officials, during their training camp at the Vale Resort in Hensol, Wales.


According to Dexter Voisin, manager of the TT athletic unit, “Ato spoke well and he really inspired the team to do their best in London.”

Boldon, who medalled at both the 100 and 200 metres in the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta, United States) and the 2000 Olympics (Sydney, Australia), will be at the Games in his capacity as a track and field analyst for the American television network NBC.

On his Twitter feed, Boldon stated, “this TT team gives me confidence seeing them in camp. One of our more balanced teams. I think they can surprise many.”

Voisin revealed that 2008 Olympic Games 100-metre silver medallist Richard Thompson was due to join the squad in Wales yesterday evening (Wales time) while national 100m champions Keston Bledman and Kelly-Ann Baptiste will enter the camp this morning to start their preparations for both the sprints and the relays.

“We did some training (yesterday) but the main focus was getting the athletes ready to hear the speech from Ato Boldon,” said Voisin. “The visit was arranged by BPTT who had some (dignitaries) from London in attendance.”

In related news, Njisane Phillip, Trinidad and Tobago’s lone cyclist at the Olympic Games, was engaged in a Twitter chat with one of his sponsors Bmobile yesterday.

The 21-year-old was speaking from his training base at the Velocity High Performance, Southern California, under the tutelage of his coach Ken Vick.

He stated that he will be leaving on Wednesday to join the TT team at the Olympic Village in London. And, at the Games, in the men’s sprint, he boasts, “I’m going for that Olympic record (of) 9.79 (seconds).”

Phillip continued, “I passed the time in a 9.775 (clocking) but I have to do it at the Olympics, so that’s what I have to do.”

He admitted that he is “not nervous” as it will be “just another day on the job. Not thinking about it too much, just staying calm.” With his focus now on training, he stressed that his routine features “lots of gym, sprints (and) road riding.”

And he urged the aspiring local cyclists to “follow your dreams, don’t give up, give 100 percent at all times.”
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Games chiefs hit back at critics
« Reply #72 on: July 22, 2012, 10:06:53 PM »
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Games chiefs hit back at critics
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Organisers of the Olympics hit back yesterday at cynics after weeks of negative headlines, saying criticism over planning mistakes and costs were being outweighed by a surge in public excitement as the gala opening ceremony nears.
 
Britain's famously caustic media, which have highlighted security and transport problems before the July 27-August 12 Games, also seemed to adopt a more positive stance as thousands turned out to cheer the Olympic torch relay through London.
 
"I think possibly what we're going through as a nation, as a city is that necessary, pre-curtain-up moment of psychological self-depression before the excitement begins on Friday when the curtain goes up," London Mayor Boris Johnson told the BBC. "The mood is perceptibly changing. People are starting to get really excited here in London about the arrival of the torch.... The last remaining clouds of dampness and Olympo-scepticism are going to be banished," he later told Sky News.
 
Thousands turned out in London on Saturday as the Olympic torch relay began the final leg of its journey around Britain, and yesterday the flame was carried to the top of the London Eye ferris wheel opposite Big Ben and the houses of parliament.
 
In the coming days, the torch will be carried around London's religious, political and royal landmarks, culminating in the lighting of the Olympic cauldron in east London.
 
The run-up to the Games has been dogged by weeks of rain and difficulties in recruiting enough security staff, prompting the government to draft thousands of extra army personnel to make up for the shortfall.
 
Transport delays also loom over the Games, with border staff planning to strike on July 26—expected to be one of the busiest days in the history of London's Heathrow airport—over job cuts and pay, and train drivers in central England set to walk out on August 6-8 in a dispute over pension contributions.
 
London's underground rail network, a 19th-century creation, may struggle to cope with tens of thousands of Olympic tourists.
 
The government and the union representing border staff yesterday appeared no closer to averting industrial action.
 
"People are working at breaking point. When passengers are queuing at Heathrow for four hours, they take their anger out on front-line border staff and nobody should have to work in those conditions," said union boss Mark Serwotka.
 
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gave little ground.

"Surely this is a time not for promoting an industrial grievance, but putting the country first," he said.
 
The spat has added to a slew of negative headlines about the Games and a raft of logistical headaches for Olympic organisers.
 
Writing in the Daily Mail newspaper, Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Olympic organising committee, said the words "fiasco, chaos and crisis" had become the new currency of journalists, who describe his committee as "dysfunctional".
 
"Sometimes you fight back because the reportage bears no resemblance to reality.... You have the insatiable desire to start every explanation to your inquisitor with: 'Lighten up. We are staging the greatest celebration of sport'," he said.
 
Britain's press, however, appeared to be joining the Games bandwagon yesterday, dedicating pages to the torch relay in London and giving away special Olympic guides and supplements.
 
Still, jitters hang over the Games, with 2012 being the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich attack by Palestinian militants that killed 11 Israeli Olympic team members—a reminder of the security challenges ahead.
 
"This is an event that is naturally attractive, even if there aren't concrete alerts. Readiness and vigilance are required .... Things like the Munich massacre have happened in the past," Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told reporters.
 
Olympic organisers on Saturday ruled out marking the anniversary of the killings at the London opening ceremony, despite campaigning by the victims' families.
 
For one Olympic team, security problems began before they had even left home, with the president of Libya's Olympic Committee Nabil Elalem taken from his car by gunmen in Tripoli last week, before being freed yesterday.
 
A colleague said he may still make it to the Games.

Pope Benedict, speaking during his regular Sunday address, said he hoped the London Games —the first in the British capital since 1948—would foster world peace.
 
"I pray that, in the spirit of the Olympic truce, the goodwill generated by this international sporting event may bear fruit, promoting peace and reconciliation throughout the world."
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TT sprinters focus on relays
« Reply #73 on: July 23, 2012, 02:09:20 AM »
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,163745.html

TT sprinters focus on relays
Monday, July 23 2012

TRINIDAD and Tobago sprinters focussed on baton passing yesterday, particularly the men and women 4x100-metres relay teams, during their pre- Olympic camp at the Wales Track and Field Stadium.


Dexter Voisin, manager of the TT athletic team for the London Olympic Games, made this disclosure during a brief interview yesterday from the team’s base at the Vale Resort in Hensol, Wales.

“Kelly Ann (Baptiste), Richard (Thompson) and (Keston) Bledman joined the camp,” said Voisin. “Both relay teams, the 4x100m women and men, worked (yesterday) afternoon and did their first session of baton passing.”

The Stadium is located 15 minutes away from the Vale Resort.

Asked if the athletes, particularly Baptiste and Bledman, were suffering with jet lag after arriving on the camp yesterday morning, Voisin stressed, “they weren’t jet-lagged.

Everybody came just within an hour (on their) flight.

“Kelly Ann and Bledman came from Amsterdam (in Netherlands) which is just an hour (from Wales). So there was no jet lag.

Voisin continued, “the session went well and, as the manager of the team, (I’ll say) the coaches were pleased with the session (yesterday) afternoon.”

Concerning today’s plans, Voisin said, “we leave the camp on Wednesday so we have two days down here at the Wales training camp.

“(Today) they go back to their individual programmes and on Tuesday we have baton passing practice again,” he ended.
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New Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary song from Machel Montano!
« Reply #74 on: July 24, 2012, 11:42:09 AM »
Here is the new Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary song from Double M.

Machel Montano - Going For Gold [T&T Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary]
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DTyNZMiWVlM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/DTyNZMiWVlM</a>

Still prefer the Kes "We Are Conquerors" song that was released since March this year.
IMHO MM's song is a little too late to catch on now in time for Olympics which starts this weekend.

Kes The Band - We Are Conquerors (Island Pop 2012)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/dT_B9FbOArA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/dT_B9FbOArA</a>

Kes The Band - We Are Conquerors (Live Launching back in March)
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Athletes leave for Olympic Village tomorrow
« Reply #75 on: July 24, 2012, 12:49:55 PM »
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,163790.html

Athletes leave for Olympic Village tomorrow
By STEPHON NICHOLAS Tuesday, July 24 2012

THE Trinidad and Tobago Olympic contingent will leave their camp in Wales tomorrow for the Olympic Village in London as the countdown to Friday’s opening of sports’ biggest stage continues.


Chef de Mission, Annette Knott, has already arrived at the Village and is ensuring everything is in place for when this country’s athletes decamp.

Speaking to Newsday yesterday, Dexter Voisin, manager, TT athletics team, revealed that the athletes’ preparations have intensified even further. He noted that although the opening ceremony for the London Games is less than a week away, the athletes are focussed primarily on their training.

“In terms of training, they are still in their final preparation and placing emphasis on their events. The mood will change when we go to the Village but for now they’re just focussed on their preparation,” Voisin said.

While in their downtime, however, Voisin revealed that a room has been set aside at the Vale Hotel in Wales for the athletes to relax. There are pool tables, video games and other forms of entertainment available for the athletes to unwind and enjoy themselves.

Meanwhile, Voisin expressed satisfaction with what he has seen from the TT relay teams at their training sessions at the Wales Track and Field Stadium. This country 4x100 men picked up silver at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the World Championships a year later and expectations are high for the Women’s 4x100m and Men’s 4x400m teams to pick up a medal.

“They practiced yesterday (Sunday) and will practice again today (Monday). This is the first time in a major tournament really that we’ve got to do baton practice.

“Usually the focus is on preparing for your individual event first but this is the benefit of having a camp,” the manager declared.

Citing the disastrous efforts by the US men and women’s 4x100m teams at the 2008 Olympics where the baton was dropped in each race, Voisin argued that one can not take anything for granted when it comes to relays. He noted that TT have improved significantly in their transition of the baton especially the 4x100m men who have gotten ample time to practice.

Commenting on the efforts of our athletes at the Welsh Athletics International last week, Voisin was delighted that they were able to get some competitive action under their belt but noted that the conditions were quite unfriendly.

“The weather condition was terrible. It was windy and very cold, it wasn’t the best for performing,” he said, “It has changed, though, and the sun is out. It hasn’t rained for the week and you can go to practice in sleeveless jerseys,” he revealed.

Asked to comment on whether this country can improve on their medal count of two from 2008, Voisin was unwilling to make any predictions.

“I don’t ever make predictions because what is important is making your way through the (early) rounds (of competition). The focus is on reaching the finals,” he pointed out.
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TTOC boss heads to London
« Reply #76 on: July 24, 2012, 12:52:18 PM »
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,163780.html

TTOC boss heads to London
Tuesday, July 24 2012

LARRY ROMANY, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC), left for London, England yesterday for the Olympic Games, which begins on Friday and runs until August 12.


Romany is expected to attend the opening ceremony as well as the events featuring TT athletes.

According to a story on the TTOC website, “the national Olympic Committee chief will also represent the TTOC at a number of meetings and other events that will take place during the London 2012 Olympics. Including in his packed schedule is an important meeting with current TTOC partner Adidas.

Romany said most of the measures the TTOC have put in place for

the national participants are bearing fruit.

“Based on the feedback from our athletes. the pre-Olympic training camp in Cardiff, Wales has gone well,” he said. “There is a very positive vibe in the camp. So far so good.” The pre-Olympic camp will come to an end tomorrow with the TT athletes and coaches heading for the Olympic Village in London.

A visit to the TT quarters in the Olympic Village is the first order of business for Romany.

“Within hours of my arrival in London I will head over to the Olympic Village to meet with the chef de mission (Annette Knott) and the members of the team,” he said.
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Powell among athletes yet to arrive
« Reply #77 on: July 24, 2012, 01:05:05 PM »
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Powell_among_athletes_yet_to_arrive-163499196.html

Powell among athletes yet to arrive
Story Created: Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 PM ECT

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Days before the end of its pre-Olympics training camp here at the University of Birmingham, sprinter Asafa Powell, along with two reigning Olympic champions, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Melaine Walker, are yet to join the Jamaican team.
 
Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) president Mike Fennell had said arrangements would be made with athletes who were scheduled for meets during the camp, but while some like Michael Frater, Nesta Carter and Andrew Riley came in and out, others like Powell, Walker, Fraser-Pryce, Brigitte Foster-Hylton and Kaliese Spencer are yet to report.
 
Fraser-Pryce and Spencer ran in London more than a week ago, Walker competed on Friday in Monaco while Powell has not touched the track since the Jamaica Trials.
 
On Saturday, Kerron Stewart, Christine Day, Latoya Greaves and Rusheen McDonald joined the group in Birmingham.
 
When questioned on Sunday about the athletes who were yet to arrive, team leader Ludlow Watts was evasive.
 
"I wouldn't even want to call individual names," Watts said, when pressed by journalists to name athletes who were yet to arrive.
 
"This camp has been a bit unique. In the past we have never had so many people compete in so many meets during camp."
 
He added: "This has being a most unusual one because we have a number of people who have been in and out, and a number of people who have to do a few things differently."
 
He conceded the situation was not ideal, noting it would have been good to have all athletes in camp at the same time.
 
However, he said all athletes were expected to be in camp by yesterday.

Over the years, Jamaica's governing body for track and field, the JAAA, has threatened sanctions on athletes who failed to turn up for mandatory camps.
 
But Watts stressed that there were extenuating factors this time around.

"It's mandatory, but I am saying to you because of the unusual situations this year, there is a number of people who had to be in and out for various reasons," he contended.
 
Pressed on what would happen if all the athletes did not arrive by Monday for the last two days of the camp, Watts said: "We would be rather surprised and we would cross that bridge [when we get there]."
 
Jamaica have picked a 50-member contingent for the Olympics which open in London on Friday, with track and field accounting for all but three members of the large team.
 
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All eyes on Bolt's legs
« Reply #78 on: July 24, 2012, 01:08:01 PM »
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All eyes on Bolt's legs
Story Created: Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 PM ECT

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Organisers may think the most closely-guarded secret of the 2012 Games is who will light the Olympic flame, but of far greater interest to the wider sporting public is the condition of Usain Bolt's right hamstring.
 
The Jamaican triple gold medallist from Beijing is the number one attraction of the London Games, but the question mark over his fitness has added an extra layer of intrigue to what is already an eye-wateringly exciting 100 metres race.
 
Bolt needed some stretching and massage treatment for a tight hamstring following his 200m defeat by Yohan Blake in the Jamaican trials at the start of the month, having also lost to Blake in the 100m days earlier when he looked to be nursing the injury with a tentative start.
 
He immediately withdrew from last Friday's Monaco Diamond League meeting where he had been due to run the 200m in a last race before the Olympics.
 
Bolt then travelled to Germany to see renowned German sports doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, though his agent Ricky Simms said the trip had been long-scheduled as part of his regular "prehabilitation" regime.
 
The 6ft 5ins (1.95m) sprinter suffered with hamstring troubles early in his career, a problem linked to a curvature in his spine, and has to put himself through a gruelling stretching and conditioning regime to prevent any recurrence.
 
"He had a slightly tight hamstring during the trials and that's why possibly he didn't push as hard as he could have," Simms said recently when assuring the public that his man would be in good shape for London.
 
"He was just protecting that. The main thing at the trials was to get through and get on the team for the Olympic Games.
 
"His coach decided that he needs to get a little bit of massage and treatment on that and rest up, and then train again hard next week so that he's ready for the Olympic Games."
 
Bolt, like the rest of the all-conquering Jamaica athletics squad, is training behind closed doors in Birmingham, around 100 miles north of London, before moving south for the start of the track and field programme on August 3.
 
Running with aches and niggles are part and parcel of an international sprinter's life but winning a multi-round championship with an injury is another matter all together.
 
Bolt, who has been given a specially-made 7ft bed in his Birmingham quarters, will also be defending his 200 metres title and will hope to help Jamaica defend the 4x100 gold they also won in world record time four years ago.
 
That programme represents a minimum of nine separate races in eight days and while some of the heats will be run on cruise control, the semis and finals will be at full bore.
 
That is a punishing regime for a fully-fit athlete but an impossible one for a sprinter with the slightest question mark over a hamstring.
 
Teammate and former world record holder Asafa Powell withdrew from the London Diamond League meeting on July 13 with a groin injury while Tyson Gay, the second-fastest man in the world, needed treatment for a minor groin strain after winning that race in cold and wet conditions.
 
Gay failed to make the 100m final four years ago as he ran with a groin/hip problem which eventually needed surgery and will be desperate to toe the line fully fit this time.
 
Should Bolt, Gay, Powell and Blake all start the heats on August 4 it will be the first time since the introduction of electronic timing in 1968 that the four current fastest men in the world will all be racing each other for Olympic Gold.
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Romany: All is well in T&T Olympic camp
« Reply #79 on: July 24, 2012, 01:11:41 PM »
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Story Created: Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 PM ECT


Things are going as planned so far in Trinidad and Tobago's pre-Olympics training camp in Cardiff, Wales, according to T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Larry Romany.
 
In a TTOC press release yesterday, Romany said there have been no problems in camp as T&T prepare for the 2012 London Games, which open on Friday.
 
Said Romany: "Based on the feedback from our athletes, the pre Olympic training camp in Cardiff, Wales has gone well. There is a very positive vibe in the camp. So far so good."
 
Romany was expected to leave T&T yesterday for London, where he will attend the Games' opening ceremony and all events in which T&T athletes will participate.
 
The TTOC head will also represent the Committee at a number of meetings and other events, including a meeting with TTOC sponsor Adidas.
 
The camp wraps up later this week, when the T&T team and officials will head off to the Olympic Village in east London.
 
Romany will first visit T&T's quarters at the village.

"Within hours of my arrival in London I will head over to the Olympic Village to meet with the chef de mission (Mrs Annette Knott) and the members of the team," Romany said.
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Here is the new Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary song from Double M.

Machel Montano - Going For Gold [T&T Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary]
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DTyNZMiWVlM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/DTyNZMiWVlM</a>

Still prefer the Kes "We Are Conquerors" song that was released since March this year.
IMHO MM's song is a little too late to catch on now in time for Olympics which starts this weekend.


I like this track....when this olympics is all said and done, this should be the track for the montage....hopefully TnT will have some gold...
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Here is the new Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary song from Double M.

Machel Montano - Going For Gold [T&T Olympic Journey & 50th Anniversary]
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DTyNZMiWVlM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/DTyNZMiWVlM</a>

Still prefer the Kes "We Are Conquerors" song that was released since March this year.
IMHO MM's song is a little too late to catch on now in time for Olympics which starts this weekend.


I like this track....when this olympics is all said and done, this should be the track for the montage....hopefully TnT will have some gold...
That Double M track came out this Monday which is a bit too late plus I personally prefer the Kes track "We Are Conquerors" which has been out since March this year!  :beermug:

Kes The Band - We Are Conquerors (Island Pop 2012)
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Kes The Band - We Are Conquerors (Live Launching back in March)
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TTOC warns of ambush marketing
« Reply #82 on: July 25, 2012, 07:28:44 AM »
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,163834.html

TTOC warns of ambush marketing
Wednesday, July 25 2012

THE TRINIDAD and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) is concerned over the alleged infringements of both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and London 2012 Intellectual Property Rights, due to the unauthorised commercial and promotional use of the Olympic marks and expressions.


TTOC secretary general Brian Lewis, in a media release, commented, “we once again take the opportunity to remind companies and organisations that no company, organisation or individual of Trinidad and Tobago is authorised to use the Olympic marks and logos (event marks) in any form of advertising, sale, marketing or public relations without the expressed permission of the IOC, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and the TTOC.”

Comprising the event marks are the Olympic rings, the marks and logos of the TTOC, LOCOG and other National Olympic Committees and Olympic Games Organising Committees, past, present or future.

Lewis continued, “this restriction relates to all forms of media, including but not limited to video, print, audio, new media and mobile telephone and also extends to advertising and public relations expressions such as ‘good luck’ wishes and congratulatory messages to accredited Olympic athletes.

“The unauthorised use of the Games marks and expressions is strictly prohibited,” he stressed.
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TT manager pleased with Wales camp
« Reply #83 on: July 25, 2012, 07:43:42 AM »
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TT manager pleased with Wales camp
Wednesday, July 25 2012

TRINIDAD and Tobago Olympic team’s athletic manager Dexter Voisin is pleased with the week-long pre-Olympic camp in Cardiff, Wales.


The team spent their last day at the Vale Resort in Hensol, Wales, yesterday, before they relocate at the Olympic Village in London, England today, two days before the start of the 30th Olympiad.

“As the manager of the team, this is my first Olympics,” said Voisin, in a telephone interview from the Vale Resort yesterday.

“I’ve been to several World Championships. We’ve organised several camps before.

“However, in terms of Olympics, from what I’m hearing from the athletes and some of the support staff who’ve been to other Olympics, this is the best organised camp,” he admitted. “Based on the productivity in the camp, I’ll safely say this was a very good camp.” Concerning yesterday’s activities in the camp, Voisin stated, “it went pretty good.

We had the second relay session today and that went well.”

Asked if any decision was made regarding the athlete who will carry the Trinidad and Tobago flag at Friday’s opening ceremony, Voisin responded, “no official word on that as yet.”

But he pointed out that the athletes are eagerly anticipating the start of competition at the Games.

“At this stage here, if there is any nervousness we wouldn’t see just yet,” Voisin said. “It’s a week before the start of competition so nervousness wouldn’t been seen yet.

When it’s about a day (before), then you may see (it). But, so far, everybody is ready to go to the Games Village.”

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Don't bet against Bolt in 100 metres, says Frater
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Don't bet against Bolt in 100 metres, says Frater
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Jamaican sprinter Michael Frater "wouldn't bet against" Usain Bolt retaining his Olympic 100 metres title in London, despite lingering concerns over his fitness and the threat to his track supremacy from compatriot Yohan Blake.
 
"Usain Bolt is a phenomenon," Jamaican men's team captain and 4x100m relay squad member Frater said at Jamaica's training base at the University of Birmingham in central England yesterday. "I wouldn't bet against him winning again".
 
Bolt, who saw training partner and younger rival Blake take his world title in Daegu, South Korea, last year after he was disqualified from the final for false starting, has had a far from vintage season so far.
 
He withdrew from last Friday's Monaco Diamond League meeting, where he had been due to run the 200m, with what his coach Glen Mills called a "slight" problem.
 
Bolt then travelled to Germany to see renowned sports doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt but Don Quarrie, Jamaica's track and field team technical athletics manager, said the 25-year-old triple Olympic champion from Beijing would be "ready to run in London".
 
"I can't really give details regarding his present form but I'm quite sure he is ready to go. He his 101 per cent," Quarrie told reporters.
 
"He has been working out on the track (at the University of Birmingham) and his performances are close to what he was doing before the 2008 Olympics."
 
A few hundred schoolchildren watched a handful of Jamaican athletes going through some warm-ups and light-training on Tuesday in glorious sunshine and under cloudless skies at the leafy campus in the southern suburbs of England's second city.
 
The training group did not include Bolt or fellow Olympic sprint champions Veronica Campbell-Brown and Shelley-Anne Fraser-Pryce, while Blake and former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell were also conspicuous by their absence, much to the frustration of a large media gathering.
 
Asked if he knew where Bolt was, Quarrie retorted: "If you know, tell me".

"I don't know why he didn't come. I'm sure the other Jamaicans were here on his behalf," he added.
 
Jamaican team manager Ludlow Watts predicted London could be in "for a surprise" in the 100m final.
 
"They are both looking well in practise and I can tell you you will see even more surprises," Watts said of Bolt's highly-anticipated showdown with Blake, who beat him in both the 100 and 200 at the Jamaican trials in late June and early July.
 
"But nobody has forgotten Asafa (Powell), because when you have great sprinters lined up in the final any mistake can mean disaster."
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Games about sport and diplomacy
« Reply #85 on: July 25, 2012, 07:48:43 AM »
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Games about sport and diplomacy
More troops deployed...

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Britain deployed 1,200 extra soldiers yesterday in a last-minute effort to bolster Olympic security while global diplomatic tensions started to play out among athletes and politicians three days ahead of the opening ceremony.
 
The additional troops, which took the military contingent at the 2012 Games to well over 17,000, were called in to cover an embarrassing shortfall left by private security group G4S, the world's largest by some measures, in the run-up to the Games.
 
The company caused a scandal by failing to meet its target for the number of guards it could provide, and on Tuesday said that it had deployed around 5,800 security personnel, still short of its revised objective of 7,000.
 
Police stressed that they were content with security arrangements for the greatest show on earth, which kicks off in Cardiff, Wales, today with a football match between the women's teams of Britain and New Zealand.
 
"We've done all the planning, we've looked at the way in which terrorists have attacked in the past and we try to make sure that none of those could get through our security measures," said Chris Allison, Britain's national Olympic security adviser.
 
Hundreds of thousands of visitors have descended on London and a million extra people are expected in the city each day of the July 27-August 12 event, putting pressure on a creaking transport system, some of which dates from the 19th century.
 
Yet for all the grumbling by a notoriously critical media and Londoners braced for disruptions to their daily lives, the sense of excitement was palpable with the Games just around the corner and the sun shining brightly after weeks of rain.
 
Early buzz from Monday evening's technical rehearsal for the opening ceremony at the main stadium of the sprawling Olympic Park was positive, suggesting film-maker Danny Boyle's unusual, quirky and ambitious vision might just work.
 
Some 11 million visitors will witness the thrill of victory and despair of defeat as some of the world's greatest athletes, from Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to US swimmer Michael Phelps, battle for the ultimate prize in sport--Olympic gold.
 
Britons, buoyed by Bradley Wiggins' historic victory in the Tour de France cycling marathon at the weekend, are confident of another impressive medals haul after success in Beijing in 2008.
 
The Games will cost nine billion pounds (US$14 billion) to stage, and in spite of criticism of the outlay during straitened economic times, officials have defended the spending as most goes into regenerating run-down east London for the long term.
 
As well as a flood of ordinary people, luxury yachts of the super-rich have moored close to the stadium. Expected dignitaries include Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential candidate Mitt Romney and US First Lady Michelle Obama.
 
Politics played out before the world's media as much as sport in the final countdown to kick-off, with a debate over how to mark the 1972 Munich attack by Palestinian militants that killed 11 Israeli Olympic team members moving up the agenda.
 
Security is already a sensitive issue in London. The day after the capital was awarded the 2012 Games, the city was hit by suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 people.
 
Widows of those killed in 1972 arrive in London today to pressure Olympics organisers to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy, stepping up a long campaign to organise an official commemoration.
 
Romney joined the fray, saying he supported a minute's silence at Friday's opening ceremony, after Olympic chief Jacques Rogge paid a surprise tribute to the fallen athletes in London on Monday.
 
British Prime Minister David Cameron may use the Games, which unite world leaders, businessmen and celebrities as well as more than 16,000 athletes and 20,000 journalists, to press Putin over his ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
 
Sources said he would accompany Putin to an Olympic judo match if the Russian leader attends the Games, and may urge him to drop his support for Assad's regime which is engaged in a violent conflict with rebels seeking to topple him.
 
In a reflection of the world they have left behind for the duration of the Games, participants from Libya and Egypt will represent the new face of the "Arab Spring" after uprisings ousted the old regimes.
 
Distance runner Guor Marial, a refugee from Sudan's civil war, is fighting for permission to compete as an independent athlete because his newly-established country, South Sudan, has not had time to create a National Olympic Committee.
 
Marial, who lost 28 members of his family in the war, has refused an invitation to run for Sudan, from which South Sudan split last year.
 
"For me to just go and represent Sudan is a betrayal of my country first of all, and is disrespecting my people who died for freedom," he said.
 
Syria's small Olympic team has arrived and is expected to compete but it was unclear how it will be received given the level of condemnation of Assad.
 
Around 30,000 people, including family members of the huge cast of men, women and children taking part, filled the main Olympic stadium on a balmy Monday evening for the first open rehearsal of the opening ceremony.
 
Most of them honoured Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire director Boyle's pleas for details of the event to remain secret and off the public pages of Twitter and Facebook.
 
The opening ceremony mastermind has voiced frustration at the media and members of the public who have leaked elements of the ceremony, which is inspired by William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" and has a strong musical element.
 
What is officially known is that the first sequence recreates a pastoral idyll, complete with geese, sheep, horse and cart, fields, fences and a game of village cricket. The ceremony is expected to be artistic and intimate compared to the opening extravaganza in Beijing.
 
What the media has since leaked includes elements of the next "act" of the show, recreating the "dark Satanic mills" of William Blake, whose poem including this reference to the Industrial Revolution became an anthem to England.
 
Even at the full rehearsal there were key moments missing, and mystery surrounds both the location of the Olympic cauldron and the identity of the individual given the honour of lighting it in front of a television audience of more than a billion.
 
The crowd faced some travel delays on their way home late on Monday, underlining the logistical challenge London faces, to be made worse by planned strike action by passport officials and some train drivers on key Olympic dates.
 
The British government on Tuesday asked the High Court to block the strike action by the border staff union.
 
London's "Games lanes", reserved for Olympic officials, athletes, sponsors and the media, open today, and are sure to spark more complaints, including from the city's famous black cabs.
 
Londoners have labelled them Zil lanes after the Soviet limousines given special privileges.
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Bolt injury free and ready to defend
« Reply #86 on: July 25, 2012, 08:08:13 AM »
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Bolt injury free and ready to defend
Story Created: Jul 24, 2012 at 11:47 PM ECT

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Triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt is injury free and ready to defend his titles at the 30th Olympiad starting in London on Friday, his long-time manager Norman Peart has said.
 
Peart's announcement comes as Bolt, one of the main attractions at the Olympics, prepares to retain the 100, 200 and 4x100-metre relay titles he won in Beijing four years ago in world-record times.
 
He was forced to pull out of last Friday's Monaco Diamond League meet as a result of a right harmstring problem he experienced during the recent Jamaican Olympic trials.
 
"At this stage if we had anything, any problem it would have been a crisis, we are saying there is no crisis," declared Peart during an interview on Jamaican radio Monday night.
 
"It's all good. If it has been something more than that then obviously he would not have been in the camp," Peart explained.
 
Bolt is coming to the Olympics following a double blow of losing in the 100 and 200 to training partner Yohan Blake at the Jamaica trials.
 
After his 200-metre loss to Blake, Bolt lay flat on his back and had his right hamstring stretched out by a trainer.
 
However, Peart says Bolt has shrugged off the right hamstring problem and is now ready to compete.
 
"He is at the camp, there are no doctors with him," Peart said.

"It's just the regular people like his coach and everybody else and he is absorbing all the training."
 
Bolt is already in the United Kingdom as part of a 50-strong Jamaican squad participating in the Games, which begin with an opening ceremony on Friday.
 
Peart says the management team has left all aspects of Bolt's fine-tuning to his coach Glen Mills, rated as one of the best in the world.
 
"We don't tend to talk to him too much because he is a guy full of confidence," Peart added.
 
"Sometimes we just check on the coach to see what's happening. We tend not to talk to him too much."
 
Bolt begins his defence of the men's 100 metres title at the Olympics on August 4.
 
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T&T flagbearer to be known today
« Reply #87 on: July 25, 2012, 08:23:15 AM »
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T&T flagbearer to be known today
Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012


The athlete who will have the honour of carrying the T&T flag at the parade of nations during the opening ceremony of the Games of the 30th Olympiad in London on Friday will be officially revealed by the T&T Olympic Committee today.
 
The T&T team will leave Cardiff, Wales today and journey by coach to the Olympic Village in East London. T&T Chef de Mission, Annette Knott said the athletes and team officials will arrive at the Olympic Village at around 4pm. “The pre Olympic training camp went exceedingly well. Accommodation at the Vale Resort was top of the line. I must commend the members of the team for conducting themselves with discipline and class. They were wonderful ambassadors for T&T.” According to Mrs Knott the athletes are all focused and there is a buzz of excitement and anticipation
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http://www.ttoc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2717:american-4x400m-relay-team-qalready-disqualifiedq-bewildered-world-governing-body-tell-ioc&catid=165:london-olympic-news-&Itemid=349

American 4x400m relay team "already disqualified" bewildered world governing body tell IOC
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:21
London 2012 Olympic News


A decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to re-award the medals from the women's 4x400 metres at the 2004 Games in Athens has caused surprise among senior officials at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

The IOC's ruling Executive Board last week claimed they were awaiting "clarification" from athletics' world governing body over whether to disqualify the United States team despite one of the squad, Crystal Cox, admitting afterwards she took steroids from from 2001.

The IOC have alrady disqualified Cox, who was one of several athletes who have admitted using banned performance-enhancing drugs as part of the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) conspiracy.

But IOC claim it was not clear whether the current rules which mean an entire relay team can be disqualified because of the doping of one member were in place at the time.

The IOC vice-president Thomas Bach repeated that position at the annual 124th Session here today.

But the IAAF claim they are mystifyed because they published more than two years ago that the team had been disqualified after Cox accepted a four-year ban.

The IAAF disqualified the US team, even though Cox only ran in the heat, under rule 39.2 and decided that the gold medal should be reallocated to Russia with Jamaica moving from bronze to silver and Britain being upgraded to the bronze.

"The IAAF position is that the team is disqualified – and note the date of the decision," Nick Davies, the deputy general secretary of the IAAF, told insidethegames.

"We have no reason to review that decision."

Mark Adams, the IOC spokesman, claimed he was not aware of them having received any notification from the IAAF about the US being disqualified but promised that they would check so "we can deal with the matter swiftly".

Yet, adding to the confusion surrounding the status of the race, is that the IAAF have not amended the result on their own website or even indicated that it is under review.

Cox, meanwhile, has claimed she has spoken to the athletes who stand to lose their gold medal - Deedee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan - about the situtation.

"It's a sad situation, but my thing is, the truth will come out eventually," she said in an interview published in her local newspaper, the Fay Observer.

"Life goes on.

"I've held my head high ever since [I was banned].

"Being able to walk away from the sport with my head held high, I have no animosity toward it because I know I was one of the good athletes.

"I played by the rules and did what they wanted me to do.

"I'm still introduced as a 2004 Olympic gold medalist.

"Once an Olympian, always an Olympian."

By Duncan Mackay at the Grosvenor House in London

Source: www.insidethegames.biz
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Blake's 'real deal' - Spearmon
« Reply #89 on: July 25, 2012, 08:28:13 PM »
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Blake's 'real deal' - Spearmon
Published: Tuesday | July 24, 2012
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter

BIRMINGHAM, England:


He may be extremely good friends with the world's fastest man - Usain Bolt - but American 200m medal hopeful, Wallace Spearmon, has been left in awe by the beastly Yohan Blake, who he warned is the "real deal".

Blake, owner of the second-fastest 200m time recorded in history, 19.26, which is bettered only by Bolt's world record 19.19, shocked the world, including Spearmon, who watched in disbelief with victories over his more celebrated training partner in the 100m and 200m at Jamaica's Olympic trials a few weeks ago in Kingston.

Despite still struggling to tie down the curve, the 100m world champion, according to Spearmon, is an entirely new monster these days and will definitely figure prominently in the proceedings at the Olympic Games.

"When you have a finish like that; his finish is even better than mine, truth is he doesn't need to have a great curve. I think he is doing exactly what he needs to do, he is running his own race, the times are coming, he is winning - can't argue with that," Spearmon told The Gleaner yesterday.

"I think it's going to be a good show; you have Blake, Bolt, myself and Churandy (Martina) and a whole bunch of names. There are a lot of guys who can make a big splash in this race," Spearmon added, before sharing his thoughts on Blake's 200m win at the Jamaican trials.

"I saw the Jamaican trials. I saw Blake finish as strong as ever and it seems like he is losing a little bit of weight so that's probably gonna help him a lot for that 200m," said Spearmon. "It seems he has hit the weights very hard earlier in the season and he seems to have now backed off so he lost some weight, so he will go quicker while not losing the strength, he is the real deal."

Spearmon, who himself won at the United States trials in Eugene, Oregon, and has run 19.95 so far this year, is happy with his own preparations and reminded that it's what an athlete does on the day that matters and that he expects his experience to give him an advantage.

"It doesn't matter what you run until you get there though because you never know what is going to happen at the Olympics," Spearmon warned. "My experience is gonna play a big role, I have been around for a while."

In London, Spearmon may not be expected to beat Bolt for the 200m gold, but they remain very good friends.

If the 200m Olympic gold isn't available, perhaps he will take some comfort in his self-declared dominance over the big Jamaican in their Playstation 3 'Call of Duty' videogame competition.

"Usain is my boy, we are cool ... 'Call of Duty', of course, I'm better. Ask him," Spearmon laughed.
De higher a monkey climbs is de less his ass is on de line, if he works for FIFA that is! ;-)

 

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