Line-up: Tyquendo Tracey, Julian Forte, Michael Campbell and Usain Bolt Usain Bolt has not only anchored Jamaica to victory in the past six global championship 4x100m finals (four IAAF World Championships and two Olympic Games); he has done so with considerable room to spare. At the Olympic Games in Rio last year, the winning margin from Japan was 0.33. At the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing, Jamaica won by 0.65 from China. The average gap has been 0.49, not so much a cushion as a sofa in sprinting terms. Reach! pic.twitter.com/3bwl0O2RUU — جوليان Julian Forte (@Julian_Forte) August 10, 2017 Jamaica's 4x100M Men's line up: Tyquendo Tracey ➡️ Julian Forte ➡️ Michael Campbell ➡️ Usain Bolt #WorldChamps2017 #teamjamaica #usainbolt A post shared by 🇯🇲 Team Jamaica Olympics (@teamjamaica) on Aug 11, 2017 at 1:37pm PDT In this period of Jamaican domination, stretching back to the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, no nation has come within 0.20 of them. That was the precise gap at the 2012 London Olympics, when the US equalled Jamaica’s old world record of 37.04 behind the global mark of 36.84 that still stands today – to Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and […]
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RAMIL GULIYEV of Turkey upsets 200M favourite Wayde van Niekerk. Wayde van Niekerk gave an emotional interview as he reflected on his brilliant week at #London2017. pic.twitter.com/HiMIP9W7t7 — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 10, 2017
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Ristananna Tracey WINS BRONZE for Team Jamaica in 400M Hurdles with a PB of 53.74. #WorldChamps2017 (photo Richard Heathcote) From the outside lane, @usatf's @TheKoriMonster bossed the 400m hurdles to take #IAAFworlds ahead of teammate @DalilahMuhammad. pic.twitter.com/Z2P9NVysc1 — IAAF (@iaaforg) August 11, 2017
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Jamaicans 🇯🇲 Shericka Jackson 5th (50.76), Stephenie Ann McPherson 6th (50.86) and Novlene Williams-Mills 8th (51.48). Good hustle ladies. #WorldChamps2017
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Jodean Williams 🇯🇲 5th in Heat 1 of Women’s 200M in 23.38. #WorldChamps2017 Simone Facey 🇯🇲 2nd in Heat 4 of Women’s 200M in 22.98. #WorldChamps2017
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Olympian Alia Atkinson wins gold in Women’s 50m, 100m, 200m Breaststroke at FINA Swimming World Cup 2017 at Fina/Airweave Swimming World Cup in Germany. Photos by Oliver Hardt
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If ever Team Jamaica needed one of its stars to win, the 110m Hurdles final was the perfect occasion. The team had been somewhat low on morale after the surprise defeats of Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson in the blue riband 100m finals and a few other below par performances from athletes who were seen as genuine medal contenders. Jamaicans the world over were desperate for a change in fortunes Omar McLeod had dominated the all season losing only once while clocking the two fastest times of the year including a majestic 12.90 to break Hansle Parchment’s National Record. Similar to his debut World Championships in Beijing in 2015, McLeod was installed as the red hot favorite to win the sprint hurdles title at the 16th IAAF World Championships in London. Jamaicans at home and in the diaspora were cautiously optimistic that McLeod who had created history for Team Jamaica in 2016 with big wins at the World Indoor Championships and the Rio Olympics, would deliver and that he did in style. The Olympic Champion like he did in Rio a year ago, opted for safe execution finding more where it mattered to convincingly thwart the challenge […]
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Omar McLeod 🇯🇲 WINS GOLD in Men’s 110M Hurdles Final in 13.04.#WorldChamps2017 110M World Champion Omar McLeod 🇯🇲 celebrates GOLD medal with his mother. Congrats @Warrior_omz ! #WorldChamps2017 pic.twitter.com/Z64ESdTyTo — Team Jamaica (@JamaicaOlympics) August 7, 2017
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