SPORTS MAX- Antigua and Barbuda’s National Hero and iconic West Indies batsman, Sir Vivian Richards, has hailed the accomplishments of St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred and Dominica’s Thea LaFond at the just-concluded Paris Olympic Games.
In fact, Richards, while sharing his excitement about the athletes’ achievements, believes their historic feats are something that the entire Caribbean should be proud of, especially given the fact that both are from tiny islands with a combined population of 250,000.
“We all should be proud, and I feel like I am them [athletes] on the podium too, because you can feel it [the pride] when they hold their hearts. This is just a special time, and you have to big them up because it’s huge, especially coming from small territories as we do at times, and being able to make an impact in the world, and you have the world media saying beautiful things about you; there is no better feeling,” Richards said on the Good Morning Jojo sports show.
Alfred, 23, won gold in the women’s 100m in 10.72s, beating American Sha’Carri Richardson, the reigning World Champion, who was heavily favoured to take the race. The feat delivered St. Lucia’s first ever Olympic medal, before Alfred added another when she placed second in the 200m in 22.08s
Prior to Alfred’s feat, LaFond again etched her name in history books for Dominica when she won triple jump gold with a leap of 15.02m. That was her country’s first ever Olympic Games medal.
The accomplishments of both Alfred and LaFond followed their exploits at the World Athletics Indoor Championships earlier this year, where they also won their respective events.
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no praise for GISELLE????? First woman in Antiguan history to singlehandedly mash up a political party. she gets a gold medal for that: intimidation, bullying tactics, dictatorship, ruthless, merciless tactics, xenophobia, elitism, haughtiness, condescending, snobbish, arrogant persona
@ Sad But True
No, but all the PRAISE for ur MOOMA. Keep out a UPP business and instead spend your energy in trying to come up with solutions for THE TERRIBLE CRIME SITUATION PLAGUING ANTIGUA as a result of the HOOLIGANS ABLP in power, totally HOPELESS, POWERLESS and INADEQUATE.
Go solve the guns and robbery pandemic and the out of crime situation. Once you do dat then you can solve the UPP equation you fool.
Sir Viv, the thing I have with sport media and these announcers and am talking about man like Atto Bolton, an Island man. Even though these ladies are both World Indoor Champions you can clearly see the recognition was there, it’s as if they weren’t Champion.
I want to believe even here in Wadadli, most of us are seeing and hearing about these young ladies for the first time, when Julien Alfred being doing her thing on the University front for quite some time now.
The big names are often mentioned over and over, even after the win they continue to down play with excuses, but I guess I was the only one to see this coming since I guaranteed Ms Alfred would have won two medals for St Lucia and she came through big time. Let’s see if their name will now be mentioned with the big names and the well deserved recognition given for the rest of their athletic career.
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