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McCook lashes media’s treatment of J’can athletes
BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer
reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
COOPERS PEN, Trelawny — Neville “Teddy” McCook, one of the most powerful sports administrators in the region has lashed out against what he thinks is the local media’s slighting of Jamaicans in favour of foreigners, giving them pride of place, especially in the print media.
McCook, chairman of the North America, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Associations (NACAC) and representative for the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) said, “I feel that a finalist from Jamaica is worth prime position over any medallist (from any other country).”
The former Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) president, who was speaking at Monday’s Gala Recognition Dinner at Starfish Hotel in Trelawny held to honour several athletes who originated from the parish, also said, “I can’t help but feel that the tragic and sudden demise of coach David Hunt this past week was triggered by his internalising of the battering he took when Jamaica failed to advance” in the CONCACAF Under-17 finalround tournament held here.
“I mention this because not all of us are thick skinned and can take this battering. I still believe and I find it unacceptable that we have a Jamaican getting a bronze medal, an American getting a gold medal and the picture of the American is in the sports pages,” he went on to say.
He told the audience he recalled listening to a radio broadcast of the 1972 Olympic Games held in Munich and got a station from the former Czechoslovakia.
“All I could hear was our boy came 10th, our boy came eighth, our boy come 16th. We never heard who won the gold medal, it was all about their boy.”
The Observer did not escape McCook’s criticism for a recent story on Vincentian track & field official, Keith Joseph, who challenged him for the post of president of the NACAC earlier this year.
He said he was in Brazil (at the Pan-American Games) when his wife called, “to tell me there as a full picture of my opponent in the paper. I have never gotten that.”
McCook said newspapers in other countries “like the United States and Canada, they don’t speak about the opponent, they don’t embrace the opponent and I am not saying we don’t say anything about them, but I must insist that a finalist from my country is worth more space than a medallist from another country.”
McCOOK... Jamaican finalist worth prime position over medallist from another country
BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer
reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
COOPERS PEN, Trelawny — Neville “Teddy” McCook, one of the most powerful sports administrators in the region has lashed out against what he thinks is the local media’s slighting of Jamaicans in favour of foreigners, giving them pride of place, especially in the print media.
McCook, chairman of the North America, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Associations (NACAC) and representative for the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) said, “I feel that a finalist from Jamaica is worth prime position over any medallist (from any other country).”
The former Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) president, who was speaking at Monday’s Gala Recognition Dinner at Starfish Hotel in Trelawny held to honour several athletes who originated from the parish, also said, “I can’t help but feel that the tragic and sudden demise of coach David Hunt this past week was triggered by his internalising of the battering he took when Jamaica failed to advance” in the CONCACAF Under-17 finalround tournament held here.
“I mention this because not all of us are thick skinned and can take this battering. I still believe and I find it unacceptable that we have a Jamaican getting a bronze medal, an American getting a gold medal and the picture of the American is in the sports pages,” he went on to say.
He told the audience he recalled listening to a radio broadcast of the 1972 Olympic Games held in Munich and got a station from the former Czechoslovakia.
“All I could hear was our boy came 10th, our boy came eighth, our boy come 16th. We never heard who won the gold medal, it was all about their boy.”
The Observer did not escape McCook’s criticism for a recent story on Vincentian track & field official, Keith Joseph, who challenged him for the post of president of the NACAC earlier this year.
He said he was in Brazil (at the Pan-American Games) when his wife called, “to tell me there as a full picture of my opponent in the paper. I have never gotten that.”
McCook said newspapers in other countries “like the United States and Canada, they don’t speak about the opponent, they don’t embrace the opponent and I am not saying we don’t say anything about them, but I must insist that a finalist from my country is worth more space than a medallist from another country.”
McCOOK... Jamaican finalist worth prime position over medallist from another country
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