Once again the gutter-rat resorts to personal attacks, Maps, but let's leave him to wallow in his own filth....Suffice it to say, nobody who went to school in the Caribbean - like you and I - would make the stupid mistake of thinking that Caribbean slaves grew cotton and not sugar!
Only a wannabe West Indian who went to school in the US would think that....
Maps, which Test matches did you go to in Trinidad? Here's the list I went to at Sabina Park....
1983 - India (Roberts turning the course of the match with three wickets in one over.
1985 - New Zealand (Coney gets his arm horribly broken, Hadlee bowls bouncers at Garner)
1986 - England (After a good start by Gooch and Robinson, Patterson blasted the English batsmen out of the park)
1995 - Australia (who can forget that terrible moment in WI cricket)
1997 - India (Rose sends Sachin's stumps cartwheeling)
1998 - England (what a pitch that was!)
1999 - Australia (great batting by Lara and Adams)
2000 - Zimbabwe (Flower put us under pressure)
To say nothing of the one-day matches, the tour matches, and the regional matches I watched at Sabina, and the club matches I watched at Kensington and Lucas, as well as the regional under-19 matches. Of course, the gutter-rat would know nothing about this, talking the shite that he does on a regular basis. The gutter-rat would learn more if he asked questions, instead of spouting falsehoods as if he has any clue what the truth is....
Who cares about swimming, cycling and boxing? The Jamaican Olympic tradition is in athletics, and that is the blue ribbon sport in the Olympics, and within the Olympic, the blue ribbon event is the 100m. That tradition is now being embraced by the eastern Caribbean. Trinidad did not declare a national holiday when Narine spun webs around lowly NZ batsmen, but they did when Walcott beat the world in the men's javelin. Grenada did not declare a national half-day holiday when Windwards and WI skipper Darren Sammy led his side to victory over lowly NZ, but they did when Kirani James won the men's 400m. The fact of the matter is that Caribbean athletes are outperforming Caribbean cricketers on the world stage. I can pick eleven track athletes from Jamaica, Trinidad, Grenada and Bahamas who have done better on the world stage than the eleven cricketers who have played West Indies cricket in this current team.
I guess it's too much to expect a WICB lackey to overcome his inner resentment of Caribbean athletics success to congratulate them on doing well at the Olympics....
The problem lies in when athletics administrators take a WICB approach to managing the sport, as they did in St Kitts....
Keith wrote:Kim has a Jamaican wife who is also his coach. In addition, she coaches some of the other athletes so it was devastating for Kim to not have her in the Olympic Village. If what he said was true then I am in agreement with him. Does he not have the right to have his coach with him?
Jamaica have been there, with the fiasco leading up to the Sydney Games in 2000, and how they handled Merlene Ottey vis-a-vis Peta-Gaye Dowdie, and Trinidad were like that in the days of Ato Bolden. But the athletics administrators are learning to take a back seat, and not to interfere as much as they used to.
The recent success of Jamaican sprinting and hurdling comes down to the private sector success of MVP and Track Racers, and nothing to do with the Jamaican govt and the JAAA. And this benefits the eastern Caribbean, because Kim Collins was coached by his Jamaican wife, and before that was trained by Glen Mills, who now coaches Bolt and Blake. Daniel Bailey of Antigua and Richard THompson of Trinidad both train with the Track Racers in Jamaica, and even Britain's Christine Ohuruogu gave up her British coaching structure to be coached by Glen Mills this year, and he did well to revive her horrible season, so that she could get a silver.
No, while Bolt may be once-in-a-generation, the success of Jamaican, Trinidadian, Bahamian and Grenadian athletes at this Olympics are not a once-in-a-generation success, much as WICB lackeys like the gutter-rat are probably desperately hoping it is, because it shows up the mediocrity of Caribbean cricket. Aside from Bolt, the other gold medallists this year for the Caribbean are Keshorn Walcott, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Kirani James, Yohan Blake, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, Demetrius Pinder, Chris Brown, Michael Mathieu, and Ramon Miller - there you have eleven Caribbean athletes who are the best in the world!
And over the past four years, during which time there was two World Athletics Champs and one Olympics, other Jamaican gold medallists have included Veronica Campbell-Brown, Melaine Walker, and Brigitte Foster-Hylton, and Kim Collins won the gold in the men's 100m at a World Champs not so long ago. In addition, the Caribbean region has produced a large number of silver and bronze medallists in both the Olympics and World Champs, which far outshines the achievements of this particular West Indies team....
i'll tell you what..NOTHING, just like YOU, you think going to a damn track and field event to watch jamaican athletes is "doing" something? 
if so then you're more deluded than i thought!!!,
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certain nations have their strengths and weaknesses and this is jams time where sprinting concerned, trying to compare it to cricket is beyond retarded, in the 100m you only need one or two gifted men and women, in cricket YOU NEED ELEVEN, i would have thought Lara's era would have tought you that but it obviously didn't.
, yes mike, name the test matches you went to while you were on holiday and rolling in the grass with Jimmy Adams!!.. obviously going to cricket games MAKES YOU "WEST INDIAN" doesn't it duncy? ok then!! 
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