GREAT HAUL OF CHINA - Jamaica's record-breaking Olympic performance
JAMAICA ENDED a record-breaking medal performance at the 2008 Olympic Games with a bronze in the women's 4x400 metres on the final day of competition for the nation's athletes at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing yesterday.
Soldiers salute Olympians
AS THE curtains come down on the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China, members of the Jamaican Defence Force (JDF) yesterday morning gathered around a television set in a canteen at Up Park Camp to watch Jamaica's men's and women's 4x400 relay teams strive for additional medals.
Clerics believe victories will prove motivating
More clergymen have responded to the Gleaner's query about the effect of Jamaica's successes in the Beijing Olympics on the nation.
Home sweet home - Jamaica-based training spares athletes drug taint, says Dennis Johnson
GOOD HOME training - like good home cooking - never hurt anyone. And veteran track coach Dennis 'DJ' Johnson believes that developing track talent in Jamaica is the main reason for the country's remarkable showing at the Beijing Olympics.
Sponsors needed to keep the momentum
TRACK-AND-FIELD coach Michael Oliviera believes Jamaica is producing about 30 per cent of its potential in sports, and argues this could be more if corporate Jamaica and government collaborate in developing sports locally.
Frater's father upset
LYNDEN FRATER, father of Michael Frater, who is part of the Jamaican Olympic sprint team in Beijing, China, is peeved that his son is not being recognised for his sterling performance for Jamaica.
PAJ forms chapter in central Jamaica
Media workers in central Jamaica have started a chapter of the Press Association of Jamaica.
PSOJ Agenda - Public private partnership
THERE IS NO commonly accepted definition of the term public private partnership or PPP. It is a concept which involves the public and private sectors working in partnership to provide infrastructure and services.
Fraud - the ugly side of the Olympics
THE HISTORY of the Olympics has been dominated by the feats of its innumerable champions from the first record-winning runner, a naked cook from Elis named Coroebus in 776 BC, who won the Stade, (the sole event - a run of approximately 192 metres or 210 yards), to Usain Bolt, who gleefully dances the 'Nuh Linga' in celebration after decimating all comers in the epic 100 metres at the 2008 Games.
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