Carifta: Which is Ja’s Most Successful Event?

[Willi]

Carifta without Jamaica is a JOKE and the other islands know it too.

[Gamma]

u be u, i be me...yuh respect large same way.

[Assasin]

Brethren what Historian is not saying is this. Most of our top under 20 sprinters boys are professional. Can you imagine if Lee, and the other two who went pro were there? That never use to happen before where our players go pro. Murphy the best under 17 sprinter based on last year is injured. We have at least one top under 20 girls sprinter injured and who can tell how many who had one year left, went to college.

Not even GE can produce that consistently every year. Some years like this is going to be a normal year. In an outstanding year them can't come close.

[Karl]

Re: Fighting so hard

Historian, how does the top 5 times compare with, say that of the top 5 finishers recorded in each of the last 5 years?

The answer may throw some light on what is happening?

[Historian]

True, But....

Brethren what Historian is not saying is this. Most of our top under 20 sprinters boys are professional. Can you imagine if Lee, and the other two who went pro were there? That never use to happen before where our players go pro. Murphy the best under 17 sprinter based on last year is injured. We have at least one top under 20 girls sprinter injured and who can tell how many who had one year left, went to college.

Not even GE can produce that consistently every year. Some years like this is going to be a normal year. In an outstanding year them can't come close.

Assasin, I know about Dexter Lee, Ramone McKenzie and the others . My critical comment was aimed at only one event, the Under-20 boys 4x400-meter relay. In this context, therefore, 100-meter sprinter Lee would have been irrelevant even if he had gone to Grand Cayman, Ramone is above the Carifta Games qualifying age, and so on.

Nevertheless, you made an interesting point about those who had one year left but went to college. I’ve noticed over the years that while some other Caribbean countries have their college based athletes return to participate in the Carifta Games while still eligible, Jamaica stands out as the most visible exception! Our athletes, once they go to college, never return to Carifta!!

And I’m not guessing here, as I could easily name athletes from Trinidad, Barbados, the Bahamas, etc. who returned from college while still eligible for Carifta in order to represent their island.

[Gamma]

you mean you have high school students competing against college students and still dominate? WOW!!

[Mosiah]

Kirani James springs to mind!

[Willi]

Have mercy Historian!!! We already shooting fish in a garrell and you want we draw fi ALL the Big guns???

LOL

[Willi]

MDYADWL

You betta recognize....

[Assasin]

But could Mckewnzie and the other 200 specialist youth run a leg on the 4*400? Remember one of them taking up the 4 now too.

[Historian]

McKenzie and Murphy

But could Mckewnzie and the other 200 specialist youth run a leg on the 4*400? Remember one of them taking up the 4 now too.

Ramone McKenzie would almost certainly anchor Jamaica’s Under-20 boys 4x400-meter relay, as he has done so at Carifta Games before. The problem, as I indicated, is that Ramone is no longer eligible for Carifta (he is above the age limit).

Regarding Murphy, if he had attended Carifta this year, I’m not sure on which mile relay team Murphy would have been used; that is, the coaches might have decided to use him on EITHER the Under-17 OR the Under-20 4x400-meter relay team.