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Millrose Games: US-Jamaica Challenge |
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Reigning women's 200-meter Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica will compete at next month's Millrose Games as part of a "USA versus Jamaica Challenge", organizers announced Monday.
The 104th edition of famed indoor athletics event at Madison Square Garden will be the first with such a matchup as the Americans try to answer the challenge thrown down by Jamaican sprinters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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NEW DELHI: A triple jumper who said her only legal jump here was a terrible one, emerged as the outstanding athlete of the Commonwealth Games here on Thursday night.
Jamaican Trecia Smith, who won the women's gold with her lone legal effort, was presented the David Dixon Award by the Commonwealth Games Federation President Michael Fennell, given to the outstanding athlete of the Games.
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Jamaican sprinter Lerone Clarke strikes gold at Commonwealth Games |
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HIS FRAME was small, he had a determined spirit and was as fast as lightning.
He represented Jamaica and placed first in the 100m race.
"I'm not talking about the lightning bolt, I'm referring to this one, you know, Seabiscuit," said Pablo McNeil, former William Knibb High School coach.
Champion sprinter Lerone 'Seabiscuit' Clarke can now add the Commonwealth Games to his growing list of accomplishments.
Seabiscuit was born undersized and grew to become a champion thoroughbred horse during the Great Depression, and a symbol of hope for many Americans.
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Smith wins gold, bronze for Pompey |
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Jamaican Trecia Smith successfully defended her women's triple jump title, while Guyana's Aliann Pompey captured bronze in the 400 metres, to make headlines for the Caribbean at the 19th Commonwealth Games yesterday.
The 34-year-old Smith, now in the twilight of her career, leapt a season-best 14.19 metres on her second attempt to seal the title as she beat Trinidadian Ayanna Alexander into second spot at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
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Clarke wins men’s 100 at Commonwealth Games |
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Jamaica didn’t even need Usain Bolt at the Commonwealth Games to remain the team to beat in the men’s 100 meters, with Lerone Clarke winning the marquee race Thursday.
Clarke was near the front of the pack from the start at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, and crossed the line first in 10.12 seconds.
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Champ Bailey readies for CG introduction |
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With the likes of double Olympic and World champion Usain Bolt back home taking his first steps towards his 2011 season, Jamaica's sprinting hopes here at the 19th Commonwealth Games have fallen squarely on the young shoulders of former Calabar High sprinter, Oshane Bailey.
The 21-year-old, who earlier this year crowned himself national 100m champion after bettering a severely depleted field at the Jamaica Amateur Athletic
Association National Senior Championships inside Kingston's National Stadium, seems ready to introduce himself to the world. He will, however, be the first to admit that Delhi possesses a far greater challenge.
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