SA could learn from Jamaicans

[Sir X]

Jamaica's National High School Track and Field Championships, known to locals simply as "Champs", is an event that, understandably, barely registers a blip on the Richter Scale of most South Africans. But for those involved in track and field, it's a seismic event.

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For it is at this five-day sports event that 40000 wildly enthusiastic spectators cram into a 35000-seater stadium to get a first glimpse of their future Olympic champions.

"Champs" is Jamaica's largest sports event by some distance, and is one of the primary vehicles through which this relatively tiny island has delivered the sprinting dominance most of us recognise in Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/...from-jamaicans

[Sir X]

Stand in awe
Part 1: Champs, Jamaica’s athletics master class

By Kwame Laurence
Story Created: Apr 3, 2014 at 9:15 PM ECT
Story Updated: Apr 4, 2014 at 9:16 PM ECT
“I’ve never seen so many outstanding performances in one meet, other than Olympic Games or World Championships. I’m in awe!”
These were the words of Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie during a television interview on the final day of the 2014 Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium, in Kingston, Jamaica.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sport...253840051.html

[Jangle]

Xcellent finds sir.

[Sir X]

All this speaks to our academics,Mds,MPs, etc etc that dwell on this yam ,banana, air in slave ship ,bred and running from gunshot theorist ( fast twitch) how can you dismiss or leave out the most plausible i.e Champs ?

Baffles and irks me.It takes forgeiners (white people ) to enlighten us on what we have.

Embarrsing!

[Rudi]

Not the first time and sadly probably won't be the last.

[Don1]

LOL! Calabar team stay inna hotel fi Champs?? Dem ave money fi burn fi dat event

Like Willi seh St Andrew ah muss kuntry

[Don1]

All courtesy of a 100+ year effort by the School Boy Mafia