Word of Prophecy - Thursday June 30, 1910

[Time]

The Championship sports as Cannon Simms pointed out at the prize distribution are not intended to supplant the inter scholastic school sports which have done so much to improve athletics in the secondary schools of the island. The championship sports are to bring the cream of the boy athletes together, and cannot fail to have a deep and far-reaching influence on the development of athletics in Jamaica. Many of the youngsters who competed yesterday showed such form as to warrant the belief that in the years to come they will be found representing the land of their birth against invaders from over the seas. And it is well that this should be so.

Telegraph and Guardian
Thursday, June 30 1910


The Road to Beijing was not built by accident

[Historian]

I Know, But....

The Road to Beijing was not built by accident

I agree, but did it have to take so long?! (Our first impact was in 1948 at the London Olympic Games and this was continued in 1952 in Helsinki, then decades of virtual drought followed.)

[Karl]

I agree, but did it have to take so long?! (Our first impact was in 1948 at the London Olympic Games and this was continued in 1952 in Helsinki, then decades of virtual drought followed.)

re: Drought followed
Not really!

We were there are thereabouts at almost every Olympic games...and certainly right in the mix at Commonwealth games (& Empire Games). Those Commonwealth games were massive affairs. Then there were the PanAm games and other regional games.

...and there were World and Olympic records. Foreman, Wesley Clayton, Keith Gardener, Mal and Mel Spence, George Kerr, Michael Fray, Lennox Miller...

...and a host of others. Men and women who were all a part of the building blocks who tend to be forgotten.

...yup! ...like all things our teachers...the schools and other institutions of learning have led the way!

[Karl]

Interesting site - stats

http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/bwic.htm