Hooray to Team GB for grabbing the biggest haul of Olympic medals (36 so far) in over 100 years! Hooray! Yawn…
It’s not that I’m bitter at Great Britain winning anything and loving it. I don’t care either way…
It’s not that I see it as hypocritical that a nation which prides itself on being losers and [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:32 on August 20th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »It seems anything a Jamaican male sprinter can do, a Jamaican female sprinter can do three times better!
This was the remarkable message Jamaica’s speed trio Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart sent as they dominated the 100m women’s Olympic Games finals in Beijing, yesterday.
Fraser romped home to victory in a time of 10.78 seconds [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:15 on August 18th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »The best thing about Usain Bolt’s record breaking win in Saturday’s Beijing Olympic Games 100m win, was the way he did it! It’s not that he set a new world record in a time of 9.69 second, but that he had the style and class to match his speed!
It wasn’t about being humble and mousey; [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:43 on August 17th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »I made a special effort to rise at 02:30 this morning just in time to watch Jamaica’s world record running speed triplets Usain Bolt (10.20 secs.), Asafa Powell (10.16 secs.) and Michael Frater (10.15 secs.), qualify in their respective heats of the 100m. It felt as if history was repeating itself…
In my school days I [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:27 on August 15th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »Excuse that headline: it was asking for it! I mean the world’s two fastest sprinters in history arriving for their big pre-Olympic news conference in London on Friday by speedboat, what are the odds? About a million (or two!) to one, I’d say.
This was the actual scenario for Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell as they [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:18 on July 26th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »In China the number 8 is almost sacred! It represents wealth and fortune because as a homonym the number 8 sounds like ‘good fortune’ in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Number plays a great role in choosing the dates of important things and events in Chinese culture. Thus, it should be surprise that exactly one month to go [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:45 on July 8th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »Every year we notice the same thing happening during the fortnight that is popularly known as Wimbledon. I’m talking about the obvious media bias against tennis queens Venus and Serena Williams.
This year the even ran from June 23 to July 6 and it was no different to other years where commentators, writers and other media [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:17 on July 6th, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »For the first time in its history a British premiere league club has appointed a BlackMan to be their new manager. That man, of course, is 40-year-old former England captain Paul Ince, who has been given a three-year contract to manage Blackburn Rovers.
One of the most significant things about this deal is that Ince is [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:52 on June 21st, 2008 in Sports
No Comments »This week CNN is looking at racism in sport. One of its features focuses on the racism suffered by former Chelsea footballer Paul Canoville who was abused by his own club’s supporters.
Back in those days, circa 1980’s, racist abuse was much more commonplace with few Black players around at the top level. But this was [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 15:08:40 on June 16th, 2008 in Sports
1 Comment »Just what is the likelihood of the fastest runner alive being called Bolt? The same, I would imagine, of the owner of that name being Jamaican!
Big up Usain Bolt who officially became the world’s fastest runner on Friday when he set a new 100 meters world record of 9.72 at an international meeting in New [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:55:03 on June 2nd, 2008 in Sports
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