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**Willi** · March 29, 2012, 05:15 AM

So yuh saying bermuda have a chance dis trip? LoL

**Historian** · March 29, 2012, 05:14 PM

Lol

Originally posted by Willi View Post

So yuh saying bermuda have a chance dis trip? LoL

Willi, you’re making me laugh (lol). Poor Bemuda! I sincerely hope those Bermudians don’t end up like the Turks & Caicos Islands at the 2007 Carifta Games (I think it was 2007) in an embarrassing situation where the host (the Turks & Caicos Islands) ended up not winning a single medal!

Of course, there would be another precedent for any Bermudian total failure, as Canada, although hosting the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, did not win any medal whatsoever (except for a silver medal in the wheelchair “competition”)!

**Assasin** · March 29, 2012, 09:11 PM

A few years ago we did a talk bout the other island them a catch up with us. A only James unnu did see to rhatid.

**Gamma** · March 30, 2012, 09:46 AM

based on that i would not call jamaica a regional power in carifta.

**Historian** · March 30, 2012, 07:20 PM

Here We Go Again....

Originally posted by Assasin View Post

A few years ago we did a talk bout the other island them a catch up with us. A only James unnu did see to rhatid.

Assasin, be careful about these arbitrary statements! You have no idea about my views or my public comments on track and field in the Americas unless, of course, you were a regular visitor to the Caribbean Track and Field Forum between 2002 and 2008.

Read Gamma’s comment below. I can assure you that he is not making idle talk, as I was the one who created a thread several years ago that challenged the prevailing view that Jamaica is a “Sports Power”! To this day, I know that, outside of track and field and netball, and to a much lesser extent soccer and cricket, the facts do NOT support this popular view of Jamaica as “The” regional power in sports! I stated then that Cuba is the “Sports Power” of the Caribbean, and I still stand by that statement today!

A cursory check of Jamaica’s record in, say, the annual semi-regional law enforcement basketball competition and also in CARICOM basketball tournaments will support my view. Then there is swimming, boxing, lawn tennis, etc.

Gamma obviously remembered that thread that I started and the very lengthy responses, which is why he typed his sentence below.

So, Assasin, save your “unnu” comment for specific persons; do not use it as a broad sweeping-brush statement. There are some of us here who KNOW track and field and who follow other sports aside from soccer and cricket, and who are aware of what EVERY Caribbean island is capable of achieving!

**Mosiah** · March 31, 2012, 09:39 PM

Again, why do we enter this T&F carnival?

**Historian** · April 1, 2012, 08:10 AM

Carifta is Important!

Originally posted by Mosiah View Post

Again, why do we enter this T&F carnival?

Answer: To give our talented athletes a taste of competition outside of Jamaica.

Do you realize the immense number of world class athletes from Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, the Bahamas, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Grenada, and Barbados who, thanks to these Carifta Games, got their first taste of what competition is like outside of the confines of their national borders?

People like Asafa Powell and Deon Hemmings and Shelly-Ann Fraser, who never ever competed in Carifta, are the exceptions to this rule!

Personally speaking, I will ALWAYS support the Carifta Games 100 percent!

**Assasin** · April 2, 2012, 10:47 AM

I use unnu because a more than one people have been saying the other islands are catching up on us in Track and Field. I am currently not talking about any other sport just now.

I do follow track and field, maybe not as much as you but I do follow it and I also use to visit Penn relay invitation at Dowling stadium the first two years. Run into Mdmx at some a these meets.

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