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MOST MEMORABLE
There is no question that the London Olympics event that touched me most of all was the women’s 100-meter dash!
While Usain Bolt’s outrageously impressive performances on the track quite understandably dominated the limelight, it didn’t generate the emotional response from me that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s incredible performance in the 100-meter final did. In one of the most talent-packed women’s 100-meter final that I have ever seen, and in what is probably the fastest women’s 100-meter race ever ran, she delivered authoritatively and came out on top, as she almost always does!
Her performance touched me deeply not just because I am one of the biggest Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fans that you will find anywhere (I admire just about everything about this woman, including her humility and her beautiful personality!). The fact is that Shelly-Ann almost always performs in very impressive ways when it matters, in the process uplifting the spirits of her country man and woman.
LEAST MEMORABLE
There is no question that Melaine Walker’s performance in the semi-final of the 400-meter hurdles, and her explanation for that performance, is my least memorable Olympic event as far as Jamaican athletes are concerned. We are talking here about a woman who is (a) the Olympic Games 400-meter hurdles defending champion, and (b) the holder of the second-fastest 400-meter hurdles time in history by a woman (she came close to breaking the world record in 2009)!!
I wish she had not attempted to explain (in that post-race interview) the reasons for her surprising performance in the London semis.
By the way, I have no deep feelings one way or the other about Jermaine Gonzales’ failure in the mile relay, and my ambivalence is probably because I still recall the embarrassment I felt with our last place finish in the men’s 4x400-meter relay in Beijing. I didn’t expect much better from our so-so team in London, and that would have been too ironic for me in the context of Jamaica’s 400-meter performance in the 1948 London Olympics (where it all began) and our 400-meter and 4x400-meter at the Helsinki Olympics four years later.
Quite simply, and speaking on a purely personal basis here, Jermaine saved me/us from a likely embarrassment in the final.
BIG UP, SHELLY-ANN!
GIRL, YOU ARE LOVED!
There is no question that the London Olympics event that touched me most of all was the women’s 100-meter dash!
While Usain Bolt’s outrageously impressive performances on the track quite understandably dominated the limelight, it didn’t generate the emotional response from me that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s incredible performance in the 100-meter final did. In one of the most talent-packed women’s 100-meter final that I have ever seen, and in what is probably the fastest women’s 100-meter race ever ran, she delivered authoritatively and came out on top, as she almost always does!
Her performance touched me deeply not just because I am one of the biggest Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fans that you will find anywhere (I admire just about everything about this woman, including her humility and her beautiful personality!). The fact is that Shelly-Ann almost always performs in very impressive ways when it matters, in the process uplifting the spirits of her country man and woman.
LEAST MEMORABLE
There is no question that Melaine Walker’s performance in the semi-final of the 400-meter hurdles, and her explanation for that performance, is my least memorable Olympic event as far as Jamaican athletes are concerned. We are talking here about a woman who is (a) the Olympic Games 400-meter hurdles defending champion, and (b) the holder of the second-fastest 400-meter hurdles time in history by a woman (she came close to breaking the world record in 2009)!!
I wish she had not attempted to explain (in that post-race interview) the reasons for her surprising performance in the London semis.
By the way, I have no deep feelings one way or the other about Jermaine Gonzales’ failure in the mile relay, and my ambivalence is probably because I still recall the embarrassment I felt with our last place finish in the men’s 4x400-meter relay in Beijing. I didn’t expect much better from our so-so team in London, and that would have been too ironic for me in the context of Jamaica’s 400-meter performance in the 1948 London Olympics (where it all began) and our 400-meter and 4x400-meter at the Helsinki Olympics four years later.
Quite simply, and speaking on a purely personal basis here, Jermaine saved me/us from a likely embarrassment in the final.
BIG UP, SHELLY-ANN!
GIRL, YOU ARE LOVED!
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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