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Congrulations to Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas, Jamaica, and Panama for win a gold or medal or bronze.at olympics -2008


I notice all the caricom countries who has ties with china won a gold medal. i guess if haiti didn't have ties with Taiwan, we would probably won something as well...............


Well congrulations to all Caribbean & Central america nations i mention above. I hope haiti do better in 2012 in London, United Kingdom games

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I would like to Thank all the fake haitians, who came out during the west-indian parade-2k8, but who has no roots to caribbean island nation.but bought a flag to represent !!!!!!

Thanks again see you phony people next year !!!!!!! ,2k9.


(R.I.P Grandpa-your memories will always be here with me !!!!).


I'm Chillin in New Orleans with Beyonce' and Lil Wayne Drinking some Hand-Grenade (Liquor Drink), near The Bayou.

congrats 2 all the caribbean countries that won ah medal!!! u made us all proud!!!

Shelly-Ann cute man...


Sherone look like one baddist...

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it's been a long time comin'.... but I know....a CHANGE is gonna come

Dude thanks for posting all of this .

I really did read ALL of it.

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Shereefa Lloyd (born 2 September 1982 in Clarendon) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.

At the 2007 World Championships she won a bronze medal in 4x400 metres relay, together with teammates Shericka Williams, Davita Prendagast and Novlene Williams. She also reached the semi-final in the individual event, with a personal best time of 51.00 seconds.

Medal record

Olympic Games
Bronze 2008 Beijing 4x400 metre relay

World Championships
Silver 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay

Achievements

Year Tournament Venue Result Extra
2007 Pan American Games Rio, Brazil 4th 400 m
4th 4 x 400 m relay
World Championships Osaka, Japan 2nd 4 x 400 m relay


Personal bests

100 metres - 11.50 s (2003)
200 metres - 23.10 s (2004)
400 metres - 51.00 s (2007)

Old Texas Tech Profile

2005 INDOOR: ... two-time all conference ... 55M ... ran a 7.02 and a 6.97 in the prelims and the finals, respectively, at the Wes Kittley Invite ... 200M ... set a career-best and a provisional mark with her time of 23.63 at the Wes Kittley Invite ... ran a 24.26 in the prelims at the Big 12 Championships ... 400M ... earned all-conference honors for her final time of 53.64 after running a 54.62 in the prelims ... ran a 53.61, a personal-best and provisional mark, at the Wes Kittley Classic ... 600Y ... clocked a 1:23.82, a career-best, at the Wes Kittley 6-Way ... 4x400M ... second leg of the team that registered four provisional marks ... season-best mark of 3:35.11 came at the Tyson Invitational ... finished third at Big 12 Championships with a time of 3:36.92 and earned all-conference honors.

2004 OUTDOOR: Competed in the 100M, 200M, 400M and as a member of the 4x100M and 4x400M relay teams ... All-American in the 4x400 of which time was a new school record ... all-conference and regional qualifier in the 100M, 200M, 4x100M and 4x400M ...all-region in the 200M dash and 4x400 ... 100M ... qualified for regionals in every 100M appearance ... season best mark, 11.57, came in the prelims of the MJ Invitational ...finished first at the ACU Open with a time of 11.61 ... finished fourth at the MJ Invitational with a time of 11.63 ... took home first at the TTU Invitational with a time of 11.60 ... earned all-conference honors with a prelim time of 11.62 and a finals time of 11.63 to take home fifth ... finished first at the UTEP Invitational with a time of 11.64 ... 200M ... added another all-conference honor with a fourth-place finish in a time of 23.10 ... ran a 23.36 in prelims ...secured a spot to Nationals with a time of 23.13 and a fifth-place finish at Regionals ...finished 11th in the prelims at the NCAA Championships with a time of 23.32 ... ran a time of 23.35 in the prelims of Regionals ... took home first at the UTEP Invitational with a time of 23.43 ...ran 23.44 at the ACU Open ... 400M ... finished first in both the prelims and finals at the ASU Relays with times of 54.92 and 54.98, respectively ... 4x100M ... team finished fourth at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 45.33, a regional qualifying time ... finished sixth at the MJ Invitational with a time of 46.19 ... turned in first-place finishes at both the UTEP Invitational and ASU Relays with times of 46.82 and 47.28, respectively ... 4x400M ... team broke school record with a time of 3:31.25 in prelims then went on to break it again by almost two seconds with a time of 3:29.49 in the finals of Nationals ... finished fifth ... team crowned runner-ups at the Conference Championships with a time of 3:35.80 ... finished first in prelims and fifth in finals at the Texas Relays with times of 3:34.71 and 3:34.14 ... finals time of 3:34.14 was a then school record ... team finished third at Regionals to automatically qualify for Nationals with a time of 3:34.81 ... took home first at the UTEP Invitational with a time of 3:38.03.

2004 INDOOR: Competed in the 55M, 60M, 200M, 400M and as a member of the 4x400 relay team ... All-American in the 4x400 ... relay team led women's team to a 45th-place finish at Nationals ... all-conference in the 200M as well as national qualifier ... 55m ...... turned in a provisional qualifying mark with a time of 6.91, a first-place finish, at the Red Raider Invitational ... 60M ... finished just outside of all-conference honors with a ninth-place finish in the 60M dash with a time of 7.50 ... 200M ... ran a season-best 23.67 in the prelims at Nationals, second fastest time in school history ... turned in two provisional qualifying times at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 23.91 in the prelims and 23.72 in the finals ... all-conference in the 200 with a fifth-place finish ... times were third and fourth fastest in school history ... took first at both the Red Raider Invitational and Texas Tech Quad with times of 24.08 and 24.09, respectively ... 400M ...made one appearance, a second-place finish at the Red Raider Classic with a time of 55.28 ... 4x400 ... Wrapped up season with an indoor as well as outdoor school record time of 3:33.85 ... time was team's only automatic qualifying time as well as seventh-best time in the nation ... turned in two provisional qualifying marks on the season including a school record time of 3:37.04 set at the Tyson Invitational for a first-place finish... other qualifying mark came at the Red Raider Classic, 3:39.35, a first-place finish and the fourth-best time in school history ... at the Texas Tech Quad, turned in a time of 3:41.84 for a first-place finish ... wrapped up regular season with a ninth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships with at time of 4:00.58 ... finished seventh at Nationals with a time of 3:34.93, second best time in school history.

AT SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: Was a two-time Athlete of the Year at Southwestern Christian College as well as a five-time Junior College All-American placing sixth in the 100 (12.14, -2.2) and fourth in the 200 (24.03) ... at the 2002 JUCO national championships posted an 11.60 mark in the 100 en route to a fifth-place finish in the 100 and fifth-place finish in the 200 with a time of 23.81 ... ran the second leg of the fourth-place 400M relay in 2003 ... ran the opening leg of the Jamaican junior national team that placed first with a time of 44.26 at the WJC-Chile and CAC-San Juan ... ran an 11.52-100 at the 2003 TCU Invite and a 23.73 in the 200 ... named 2002 and 2003 female athlete of the year.

PERSONAL: Born September 2, 1982 ... daughter of Osbert and Marie Lloyd ... has five siblings, Novia, Kevin, Carza, Catherin and Rushen ... attended Vere Technical High School in Clarendon, Jamaica ... hobbies include dancing and listening to music ... major is undecided.

Whyte Rosemarie

08/09/1986


Personal Best - Outdoor

Performance Wind Place Date
100 Metres 11.60 0.70 Kingston (NS), JAM 24/06/2006
200 Metres 23.35 0.70 Kingston 31/05/2008
400 Metres 50.05 Kingston (NS), JAM 29/06/2008
100 Metres Hurdles 14.47 -0.90 Kingston (NS), JAM 01/04/2006
Long Jump 6.35 Spanish Town 11/03/2006
Triple Jump 13.04 0.60 Kingston (NS), JAM 29/03/2006
Heptathlon 5262 Kingston (NS), JAM 01/04/2006

Progression - Outdoor
Season Performance Wind Place Date
100 Metres 2006 11.60 0.70 Kingston (NS), JAM 24/06/2006
200 Metres 2008 23.35 0.70 Kingston 31/05/2008
2007 23.43 0.80 Kingston (NS), JAM 24/06/2007
2006 23.74 1.10 Kingston (NS), JAM 31/03/2006
400 Metres 2008 50.05 Kingston (NS), JAM 29/06/2008
100 Metres Hurdles 2006 14.47 -0.90 Kingston (NS), JAM 01/04/2006
Long Jump 2006 6.35 Spanish Town 11/03/2006
2005 6.28 Kingston, JAM 04/03/2005
Triple Jump 2006 13.04 0.60 Kingston (NS), JAM 29/03/2006
Heptathlon 2006 5262 Kingston (NS), JAM 01/04/2006

Honours
Rank Performance Wind Place Date
400 Metres
The XXIX Olympic Games 7 f 50.68 Beijing (National Stadium)

Novlene Williams (born April 26, 1982 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won (together with Shericka Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton) a silver medal. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a bronze medal over 400 metres.

She studies Commercial Recreation and Hospital Management at University of Florida, USA. She trains in Gainesville, Florida under coach Tom Jones. Her hobbies are television, music and movies.

Novlene is a graduate of Ferncourt High School located in Claremont, St. Ann in Jamaica


Medal record


Olympic Games
Bronze 2004 Athens 4x400 m relay
Bronze 2004 Beijing 4x400 m relay

World Championships
Silver 2005 Helsinki 4x400 m relay
Silver 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay
Bronze 2007 Osaka 400 m




OSAKA, JAPAN - AUGUST 29: Gold medal winner Christine Ohuruogu (C) of Great Britain cries on the podium alongside silver medal winner Nicola Sanders (L) of Great Britain and bronze medal winner Novlene Williams (R) of Jamaica following the Women's 400m Final on day five of the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championships on August 29, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Both these athletes didn't run in the final but were part of the 4X400 relay team so they get medals also

Anastasia Le-Roy

11/09/1987 Manchester

Personal Best - Outdoor
Performance Wind Place Date
100 Metres 11.41 1.10 Kingston, JAM 30/03/2007
200 Metres 23.08 -0.80 Tainan 29/05/2008
400 Metres 51.09 Kingston (NS), JAM 29/06/2008

Progression - Outdoor
Season Performance Wind Place Date
100 Metres 2007 11.41 1.10 Kingston, JAM 30/03/2007
2006 11.73 1.10 Kingston (NS), JAM 31/03/2006
200 Metres 2008 23.08 -0.80 Tainan 29/05/2008
2007 23.12 0.60 Kingston, JAM 31/03/2007
2006 23.25 2.00 Port-of-Spain 16/07/2006
2005 23.53 0.00 Kingston, JAM 19/03/2005
2004 24.07 -0.70 Kingston, JAM 27/03/2004
400 Metres 2008 51.09 Kingston (NS), JAM 29/06/2008
2007 52.28 Kingston (NS), JAM 24/06/2007
2006 54.64 Spanish Town 04/06/2006
2005 52.92 Kingston (NS), JAM 26/06/2005

Honours
Rank Performance Wind Place Date
200 Metres
11th IAAF World Junior Championships 6 f 23.88 -0.90 Beijing (Chaoyang Sport Center)


Bobby-GayeWilkins

10/09/1988 Manchester

Information
National Junior Championships: 2006 (1st, 400m)

Personal Best - Outdoor
Performance Wind Place Date
400 Metres 50.87 Kingston (NS), JAM 28/06/2008
800 Metres 2:04.87 Kingston (NS), JAM 22/03/2008

Progression - Outdoor
Season Performance Wind Place Date
400 Metres 2008 50.87 Kingston (NS), JAM 28/06/2008
2007 51.72 São Paulo 07/07/2007
2006 52.85 Kingston (NS), JAM 25/06/2006
2005 54.07 Marrakech 14/07/2005
800 Metres 2008 2:04.87 Kingston (NS), JAM 22/03/2008
2006 2:06.24 Kingston (SEF), JAM 18/03/2006

Honours
Rank Performance Wind Place Date
400 Metres
4th IAAF World Youth Championships 7 f 54.72 Marrakech 15/07/2005

4X400 Womens team

People who medaled for other Nations with Caribbean Connections (Heritage/Bred/Birth)




Sanya Richards (born February 26, 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Richards left Jamaica for the USA at the age of 12 and became a US citizen in May 2002. At St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, she lettered in basketball in high school and is a member of the National Honor Society, ending her high school academic career with a 4.0 grade point average. In 2002 she was named National High School Female Athlete of the Year, USA Track and Field's Youth Athlete of the Year, and Track and Field News Women's Prep Athlete of the Year.



Richards graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 with a degree in management information systems. She is a singer and a dancer, regularly putting on shows for family and friends. Since 2007, she has been engaged to current New York Giants cornerback & Super Bowl champion, Aaron Ross. They have been dating since 2003.[1]



She has won a silver medal in the 400 meters at 2005 World Championships in Athletics. In 2006, together with Jeremy Wariner (400 m) and Asafa Powell (100 m) she won her sixth out of six Golden League events (100 m) in the same season, which earned her a total of $250,000. She broke Valerie Brisco-Hooks' US record of 48.83 with a 48.70 at the end of the 2006 season and was named IAAF 2006 Female World Athlete of the Year[2] After failing to qualify for the 400m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka due to illness which caused her to finish fourth in the US trials, Richards was the favourite to win gold in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and qualified fastest for the final, but went out of the blocks too quickly and was overtaken in the finishing straight by Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain and Shericka Williams of Jamaica, consigning her to the bronze medal.


Medal record

Olympic Games

Gold 2008 Beijing 4x400 m relay
Gold 2004 Athens 4x400 m relay
Bronze 2008 Beijing 400 m

World Championships

Gold 2003 Paris 4x400 m relay
Gold 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay
Silver 2005 Helsinki 400 m

Major achievements

Year Tournament Venue Event Place Result
2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 200m 3rd 23.09
400m 2nd 51.49
2003 World Championships Saint-Denis, France 400m 11th 51.32
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 400m 6th 50.19
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 400m 2nd 49.74
World Athletics Final Monaco, Monaco 400m 1st 49.52
2006 World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia 400m 9th 52.46
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 200m 2nd 22.17
400m 1st 49.25
World Cup Athens, Greece 400m 1st 48.70
200m 1st 22.23
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 200m 5th 22.70
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 400m 3rd 49.93


Sanya Richards, the Fastest Woman in the World

The AT&T blue room presents ATT Home Turf TeamUSA

She's the one: UT runner, family have same goal

08:51 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 9, 2004

By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News


Shari Richards remembers exactly when her older sister, Sanya, Texas' sophomore sprint sensation, set out on her quest to become the best 400-meter runner in the world.

It was when Shari was assigned Sanya's household chores four years ago so that Sanya could concentrate more on her training.

"Sanya never really cleaned the bathroom that often anyway, so I was already doing that when I inherited the job," Shari joked.

Sanya Richards will have 16 family members in Austin as she attempts to defend her 400-meter title during the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships beginning Wednesday. Richards, who owns the nation's fastest outdoor 400 time (50.49), will also run the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays for third-ranked Texas.

Her father, Archie, a former soccer player in Jamaica, will be her chief motivator and will supervise the 2,000 abdominal crunches she does daily. Her mother, Sharon, a former high school track champion in Jamaica, will be in charge of her diet. Shari, a freshman at Texas who lives with Sanya, will oversee her sister's water intake – eight 24-ounce bottles a day – and her sleep.

"We try to let Sanya focus on training and running fast," Archie said. "Everything else is on me or her mom."

The Richards family members have reshaped their lives for Sanya in hopes that she will one day dominate the 400 meters – a tortuous sprint with a razor-thin line between success and humiliation.

"If you go out too fast, that grand piano will jump on your back in the final 150 meters," said a smiling Richards, whose long legs make her seem taller than 5-8.

She is a prodigy who didn't know the depths of her talent until her father looked at a program during a track meet in Jamaica, when Sanya was 10, and saw her times were better than some boys her age.

The revelation sent Archie scrambling to research track and field. He began videotaping all of his daughter's races to find ways to improve her form while also studying the flaws of opponents.

When Sanya was 12, Archie and Sharon Richards were convinced their daughter was going to be special in track. They moved from their native Kingston, Jamaica, to the United States in hopes Sanya would be adjusted to America before having her pick of college scholarships.


Team effort

Shari Richards is attending Texas, in part, to help give Sanya a social life because Sanya doesn't go out at night. She's too focused on getting her eight hours of sleep. Shari also helps monitor her sister's training and reports back to her parents, who live in the South Florida town of Pembroke Pines.

"Her sister sees that she doesn't cheat on her diet," Archie said.

And Sharon Richards has given much more than the shiny, gold bullet Sanya wears on a necklace – a gift in eighth grade to symbolize Sanya's speed. Sharon gave up her Jamaican citizenship in the spring of 2002 and became a U.S. citizen so that Sanya would automatically become a U.S. citizen as her minor child. Sanya was 17 at the time.

"It was a tough decision," said Sharon, a corporate travel counselor for American Express. "I still have family in Jamaica. But we liked the way U.S. Track and Field was treating Sanya and thought it would be best for her to run for the United States."

Said Archie, a real estate investor who is still a Jamaican citizen, "With the opportunities that were being afforded to Sanya by the U.S., she should give back to the U.S."

But for anyone who thinks her family revolves a little to tightly around Richards, think again. That's exactly how Sanya wants it.

Her parents say the only thing they demanded of Sanya growing up was to be a good student. Richards was a member of the National Honor Society in high school and has a 3.3 grade point average at Texas while majoring in management information systems.

"What my family has done for me is healthy," Richards said. "It's never been overbearing. I want to be a name everyone remembers. I want to be the best in the 400, the best anyone's ever seen. To get there, you need help. If you're trying to go it alone, sometimes it's hard to stay motivated."

Sanya agreed with her parents' decision that she become a U.S. citizen. But the decision didn't sit well with some in Jamaica, where track is a way of life, and where Sanya went for the World Junior Championships in July 2002.

"When she got announced the first time at junior worlds as a member of the U.S. team, there were a few who hemmed and hawed and a few boos," said John Guarino, Richards' high school track coach at St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Richards was sluggish and was beaten in the 400 final by Monique Henderson of UCLA, one of her top competitors at this week's NCAA meet.

The experience only seemed to fuel Richards, who capped an astounding freshman season at Texas last year with first-place finishes in the 400 at the NCAAs and the U.S. Championships. She then anchored the gold medal 4x400-meter relay for the United States at the World Championships.

Just a baby
At 19, Richards is a virtual baby in track, a sport where sprinters such as Gail Devers compete at a world-class level into their 30s.

As the reigning American outdoor champion in the 400, Richards hopes this week to break the NCAA outdoor record in the 400 (50.18) and the world junior record (49.42) before attempting to qualify for the Olympics in July and compete for the United States in Athens in August. .

It was all part of a plan her father had for Sanya, dating to her junior year in high school at St. Thomas Aquinas, when Sanya lost a 200-meter race to Arizona's Angel Perkins and decided she would stop at nothing to be the best.

That included increasing a regimen prescribed by her father of 500 abdominal crunches three times a week to 1,000 five days a week. She also did weight workouts with her mother, a former aerobics instructor and gym owner in Kingston., in their garage in Florida.

"I can still hear my father saying, 'If you train like everyone else, you'll be like everyone else,' " said Richards, a devout Christian who attends church on Sunday, even if she arrives home from a meet late Saturday night.

Sharon scrutinizes Sanya's body, especially the abs, and can tell just by looking at her if her daughter is taking in enough protein.

Archie discouraged Sanya from staying out late, calling parties nothing more than "a place where people go to show off" – something she can do when her track career is over.

Sanya is now up to 2,000 ab crunches a day – a commitment that takes up to three hours to complete. It is her advantage, she believes, because her father taught her that strong abdominal muscles lift tired legs at the end of a race.

"My abs are the key," Richards said. "If everyone started doing 2,000 abs a day, I would do 3,000."