Should Hyde get sportsman of the year?

[Time]

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There is a strong argument for giving Jaheel Hype the sportsman of the year award based on his international successes but he is a schoolboy. This one is tough, let me think about thee implications.

[Sir X]

The implications are acknowledging the obvious , school boy T&F( Champs ) is a professional sport.

Hyde should get it.

[Karl]

Why not (give it to him)?
Deserving I think as no other male is around that has accomplishments even close to his. Is there time for another to surpass his feats?

- SUPER SPECIAL JAHEEL HYDE
What can one say about Jaheel Hyde that wouldn’t sound like an understatement, especially after his performance at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. Many will remember the date August 23, 2014 as the day Jaheel Hyde became the first Jamaican male youth to win a sprint hurdles gold medal at the Youth Olympics, the first youth athlete to break 13 seconds in the 110m hurdles, and perhaps the first ever to hold a World Youth, World Junior and Youth Olympic title simultaneously. This is absolutely incredible, even if this is only the second edition of the Youth Olympics.

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[Time]

The implications are acknowledging the obvious , school boy T&F( Champs ) is a professional sport.

Hyde should get it.

ok, but the basis of the award would be for his international achievements not Champs.

[Sir X]

Exactly .

[Gamma]

is it only available to to professional athletes? when T&F was an amateur sport, T&F athletes were still being recognised.

i am not sure that just being a schoolboy should disqualify him. he has been our most consistent T&F male athlete this year.

[Mosiah]

If nothing else internationally surpasses what he does locally, what then?!?

[Sir X]

Isnt the bar to equal or surpass what you do locally on the international stage ,he has beaten them all.

[Mosiah]

Agreed!

[Karl]

is it only available to to professional athletes?

Do not know.

...when T&F was an amateur sport, T&F athletes were still being recognised.

There was a time I knew where to find the criteria used to select our Athlete of the Year. Seem to remember in the past there was always a press conference...

i am not sure that just being a schoolboy should disqualify him. he has been our most consistent T&F male athlete this year.

Hope being a schoolboy would not disqualify him. ...and that his performances should have him 'in the mix' with good (?) chance of copping the award.

[Bruce]

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[Time]

Agreed!

ok, Agreed! Give it o him!

[Gamma]

a good candidate i think...

[Stonigut]

Total waste of time argument, this is for sportsman of the year not sports schoolboy of the year, people really get it twisted and totally drop the whole context piece. What he did was great, but that level is just dolly house to the real thing, means nothing, just a sampler, just icing on the finger, a little flavor or taste, a hint of things to come. Mek we leave the youth alone and stop swell him head with foolishness and make him hunger for greater things so we can name him sportsman of the year when he dominates at big man level. Geezam!!!!!!

[Mosiah]

Or any of the Taekwondo fighters!