Jamajscy journalists zarzekają now, that really has been. It is on this Sunday, in the same minute, in which the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, called the sprinter Lightning went 100 meters in space-time, 9.58 s, zagrzmiało and runął rain on the earth usychającą in Sherwood Content. In the heart of Germany’s Usain Bolt shalal joy for meta, the capital of Kingston on the part of fans danced in the streets, a poor village, which is released on the world record, and finally doczekała water.
Maybe this story is true, it may not. In any event, does not appear to be neither more nor less likely than all these stories, which will have ended the championships in Berlin. In particular, from other stories about Bolcie, young king of sport, which argues that the basis of his diet to chicken from McDonald, and even he does not wince eyelid. About biegaczu, who in the course of the year has improved the world record in 100 and 200 may 11 hundredths seconds, and once it took sprinterom quarter-century. About szczupłym near dwumetrowym boyfriend, who, in recent times poradziliby, not to block the track and took to something else, because with such a figure does not make a career. And the fashion for low force, but the broad shoulders. Now it turns out that it was a mistake.
Beach on the Spree
Eighteen years ago Bolta fans barely associate atletyki light. Today, even housewives know that this is higher than others on the head, the yellow-green dress, which at the track behaves like a child with ADHD, a victory celebrated by pulling his hand up in a gesture lightning. And escapes all. Even researchers who can wyliczyli that man can not fix the sprint so fast.
Exactly one year after three gold medals and three world records in Beijing Usain Games came to Berlin and played there his mastery, other than those rights of all of physics. Wins, but in many races before the brake far meta. Apparently after the April accident, when his BMW crashed and hurt my leg, had to end at some time training. The greater the embarrassment of his rivals today.
The Berlin Olympic Stadium, designed by the giant at the request of Albert Speer Hitler, still remembers how in 1936 American Jesse Owens, a descendant of slaves, the son of a collector of cotton, ośmieszał during the Games führerowskie Bajania about the superiority of races. It seemed that nothing more can not happen here, but someone let it happen again today, by passing through Berlin. Germany oszaleli at this point, which is called “The fastest klaunem the world,” and the country they represent. Dump the Spree beach, where the game jamajska music on Alexanderplatz is a long piece of track in the colors of that country. Everything that is associated with the bolt, as water goes. Of course, are behind this madness money Pumy German, Jamaican lekkoatletyki sponsor, but Bolt and his island home and cardiac podbiliby without them. Merlene Ottey, the first celebrytka sprintu from the Caribbean, once explained to us that from the beginning I received from the origin points for the supporters. – World has a fondness for the region: sun, beach, reggae and unconcern. Well associated.
Sprint to eat, sleep sprint
Who bored sun and beach, and some luck, however, was found in Jamaica, it may be possible to route the oprowadzić bolt. To see the place where the BMW sport slip got to rowu. Go to discos Quad in Kingston, where the phenomenon is most foresight gear, go to the north island, to the family home in Sherwood Content, where his mom cooks Jennifer jams, bulbs, which replace the potatoes in Jamaica. According to father, Wellesley Bolt, it was the jams, and not nuggetsy look foodu are secret successes son.
A trip sooner or later it will reach the National Stadium in Kingston, which stands at gold sculpture Dona Quarriego, the first Olympic champion of independent Jamaica (200 m in 1976 years), but also a characteristic monument of the boy dredami and guitar. If someone said to Bob Marley on your mind, would probably be close to a typical football stadium, because he loved football and music. But the national goals on the disc is assumed to have less and less, important to track. Bolt trains here often, and when held in the stadium Champs, annual championships lekkoatletyczna schools compete for four days 2.5 thousand young men, watching their every day after 30 thousand spectators. In Poland, it is difficult to collect as many football matches.
Each Saturday afternoon, students agree to the cities of Jamaica to common practice, or sprint, and fun. There can not be separated from sports to music, and Bolta Quarriego from Marley, sprintów from reggae. And from religion, because many talents started his career at parishes. Just as Bolt and Powell Asaph the son of pastor and former world champion bronze medalist from Berlin.
Usain is a symbol of Jamaican sprint gold fever, but has many helpers. Rasta-lekkoatleci from the island three times smaller than this region, with a population of less than przyległościami from Warsaw, won in the Games, Beijing 11 medals, including six gold. Poland in all ten disciplines, and only one dollar. For the last four years the world record in 100 m is continuously in the hands of Jamaican.
In Berlin, a second medal in sprintach, from 100 to 400 m, reaches the Jamajek and Jamajczyków. And then prześcigają runner in giving reasons for this collective to high speed. Veronica Campbell explains that the secret to the success of reggae power. Shelly-Ann Fraser talks about the will of God and the fact that in Jamaica “and we eat śpimy sprint.” Bolt has his chickens, or jams, if parents believe. And so on. How to listen to these stories, it would appear that today’s journalism world sprintu simply no longer embraces. You have to be more of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical realism. Only in Colombia to sprintów Marquez does not smoke, ai Cuba Fidel Castro his friend now run by the will of pots, trójskok, ball, spear. Sprint left another hot islands. One of the track in Jamaica is indeed a gift from Fidel, even years from 70.
Sharing shame
When major events spikerzy wyczytują who becomes the blocks in the shortest cross-country finals, is to read the folder as the holiday for the rich. On one track Trinidad and Tobago, on the other Jamaica, the Bahamas, Netherlands Antilles, St.. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados. Same skates Caribbean tourist license for running fast. Five of the eight finalists stumetrówki in Berlin to represent the Caribbean. In the final women’s advantage was even greater: six girls from the islands versus two Amerykanki. Even sztafety, flagship of U.S. light atletyki, are trailing last with Jamaica, and is, and the Bahama Islands.
It’s not started, or before yesterday. When the first Jamajczyk Arthur Wint won in 1948 in London Olympic gold at 400 meters, it was not yet independent and medals of Jamaica signed the United Kingdom. The first gold at the Caribbean in 1976, won the hundred years Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago, but only the second Bolt in Beijing. Stars of sport and the frontier were popkultury Ottey Jamaica and Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago, the island paradise but for good rozpędziły is only in recent years. Have begun to educate themselves not only the sprinterów, but also to retain them in the country. Example, gave 10 years ago scandalmonger Brigitte Foster-Hylton (Berlin was the world champion, finally, at the age of 35 years), who returned to the island from the U.S. and their sports and political contacts helped założonemu private center in Kingston treningowemu. Today, in this group, called Maximizing Velocity and Power, in short MVP, in addition to training including Foster-Hylton Asaph Powell and world and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser. They are associated with Technology in Kingston, UTech. Those who are still studying, get scholarships, the company sponsors Nike. Competes with a group of companies and Bolta Puma, Racers Track Club. Then follow this path, and Jamaica, which Boldone says that it is for sprintu what Mecca for Islam, talented runner coming from other countries in the region. Bolte With the Racers Track Club runs for example, Daniel Bailey of Antigua. The one that I cut the Usain chat, wbiegając to run one of sprintów in Berlin.
Previously he was a different career pattern: to show the speed and soon fall into the eye poszukiwaczom talent from the USA and go on scholarship. So did, for example, Ottey, in the U.S. grew up Boldone, the 2003 world champion Kim Collins of (he won the title in Glen Mills, coach Bolta today) at the University of Texas found what they could not give him his miniature państewko St. Kitts and Nevis, numbering just over 40 thousand inhabitants.
He was also even less pleasant for wyspiarzy scenario: sprinter was born in Jamaica, przygarnięty by the new homeland and zdobywający medals for her. Ben Johnson and Donovan Bailey for Canada, Linford Christie for Great Britain. Jamaica, none of it was, only ordered it to share with the new ojczyznami shame, when Johnson and Christiego found to doping.
A ticket to a better world
They all fled from the islands before the other party paradise, niepokazywaną in folders, but clearly visible along the travel routes. Against poverty, crime, lack of attachment and a sense that each day will look the same. Those who visited the island, knows the local nude, odbijał from the kind of promises with no coverage when the attempt to do something. The Spanish “manana” is the hurry. The road to the house Usaina Bolta still waiting for the curing, or at least deep pits overwhelmed, but for a long time to ask for a master and his family.
Here life runs quietly, and he does not want you to pluck. Tourists have been, and will, as is radio to your ear, are dancing, rum, turn. Bolt also popalał, told about it in interviews. Now jamajska federation and the sponsor a little honesty temperują, at the end of Usain is a model for youth. It is better to be driven only for running – usually after the grass, because the island is only four professional running. To educate athletes finally started to make the country because this was not badly. Jamajczykom built sports facilities such as Chinese, in return, there will be podsyłać their players.
Who wywalczy quick feet a place in one of the centers sprintu, has already caught a ticket to a better world. And before you have examples that might tighten teeth. Powell, had it not been for sprint, would be a mechanic or an average player. One of his brother was killed in strzelaninie, second, playing American football in Texas, where he went for the bread. Shelly-Ann Fraser fled over the extreme poverty. Bolt can be krykiecistą, because it went well, but not for zarabiałby less than 10 seconds of work 160 thousand U.S. dollars (in Berlin for the title of master pay 60 thousand and 100 thousand for the world record). Today is a millionaire, the first athlete to earn on advertising at least 10 million dollars a year. For the same output at the track in large mityngach requires 200 thousand dollars. It works on the imagination of others, the money lying on the track. And when you can still give to the track jankesowi socks or Brytyjczykowi, it is double the pleasure. It can not be said that out loud, but the subtext is clear: people in lekkoatletycznych kolcach rozmontowują last bastions of colonialism.
Power transient
This solar empire on the rubble produced sprintu other powers. U.S. factory sprinterów still leave the host of young talented, but more and more difficult to raise such dominatorów there, they were Maurice Greene and Marion Jones, the Carlu Lewisie let. The last entry in the book the great Carla records sztafety 4 x 100 m, 1992, wymazała in Beijing with the team jamajska Bolte and Powell in the warehouse. Americans osłabli earlier era ended szybkobiegaczy from Germany, from the East. The successes of the Ukrainian, Belorussian, Greek turned out to be short-lived. All for the same reason: the fight against doping. When brodate sprinterki and sprinterzy with rozstępami skin began to bicepsach longer be niestrawni for television viewers and sponsors, the Olympic movement and light atletyki decided finally to take doping seriously.
Earlier, for the good of the show, been mixed with that. And once the fight started, with some training centers is not one stone upon another. Of the five Olympic champions from three Bolte was zdyskwalifikowanych, Marion Jones went to prison, although he never tested for the spirit, but it unmasked the so-called. Balco affair, the laboratory supplying athletes banned for muscle fuel. Jones went on the testimony and convicted her zaparte including for perjury. Over the Caribbean, it is increasingly dopingowych gesture of suspicion. The main accused in aferze Balco was ready to talk about his famous dilerze doping in the region and the fiction of the local control system, but says few people wanted to hear. Until recently, for example, Jamaica did not have a doping committee, subject to the regional committee, and this was not enough money to send inspectors regularly to all the islands. The Commission was established in Jamaica years ago and finally (JADCO), but they say that it is quite sluggish and does not exceed the controls. But definitely work if you had time for the World Championships in Berlin, left to start five runners who have been identified metylksantynę, the so-called. stimulant. Although it is not on the list of prohibited substances, but the action is similar to the measure placed on it – tuaminoheptan. JADCO decided that a decision on the four sprinterów – two groups with the coach Glen Mills, leading Usaina Bolta – taken only after the championships, he has to take a closer case. A fifth, Sheri-Ann Brooks, cleaned because of allegations of procedural irregularities in the verification of sample B. It was only during the championships Jamajczycy concluded that the risk of scandal is too big and wykreślili suspected runners from startup list.
To tear
Dr. Herb Elliott, athlete ever, now is the Jamaican staff physician of souls and bodies. He says the preacher, looking blandly, but out-it is not, especially when it comes to doping. This is Olympic team doctor, has overseen inspections in Jamaica, it was not until JADCO, now is a member, has been active in the IAAF, the world’s authorities atletyki light. On timidly answered questions raised cheering journalists during the Games in Beijing whole messages. Ensures that the Jamaican sport is clean and tear, together with the future success of talent and new training programs. Now, finally, that is beautifully and was a bad day when Jamajczycy training in the U.S. and given them a choice: either take out.
Regardless of whether or not the crest of telling the truth or not, the master fails to do doping, and that karaibscy sprinterzy have great genes, there is no dispute. Briefly speaking, the terms of a muscle szybkokurczliwych, the cost of providing the speed endurance. Coach Stephen Francis recalls a story to help.
- We are all descendants of slaves. Hardest those who have passed murderous journey from the west coast of Africa. And the most unsubmissive, because in Jamaica blasting ships with rebels, then do not the American plantations to the confusion – a mixture of translated genes. It captures a heart, just as carefree Usaina replays gear bolt, from which a small winning, beating a record is treated as najnaturalniejszą thing in the world. Not everyone believed him, but all fascinates. It would be even more beautiful if that dream survived. For the latest lekkoatletyczna podpowiadają happening, rather, that one has to admire sprinterów very rush.
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Aug 28 2009