We jumped on our televisions last night to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in Rio. We all went a little crazy when our flag was carried in by Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce.. Our pitiful television station didn’t give us the whole opening ceremony. (Not unusual) What ‘they’ think is important is not what ‘we’ think is important.
Although Jamaica does have 2 swimmers, a diver and a gymnast, most of our team are in athletics; running. That will happen next week.
Next week there will be huge television screens erected in all town centres. Massive crowds will form. Everything will stop. Everyone will be in the colours; maybe just a yellow tee shirt, maybe the full track suit. Many will have flags.
Every Jamaican will be ‘there’. We will be watching the competition. As if we are in it. We take our athletes personal, as if they are part of our family and the Olympics is our yard.
In Jamaica, we may not be doing good when it comes to the economy; in fact from 1962, when we took Independence and our dollar was pegged to the British Pound, to 1977 when we began ‘crawling peg’ devaluation our dollar went from an American needing $1.20 to buy one dollar, to now get $1 Ja for 1c U.S. If you have $10 U.S. you have $1,260 JA.
We aren’t doing well with crime. Kingston, our Capital, ranks in the top 10 of ‘Most Dangerous Cities’.
We don’t make it with health care. Over 70 infants died because of infection caused by dirty conditions, whether unsterilised equipment or dirty hands.
We don’t make it much in education. The idea that “patwa fi wi langwij”, that is we don’t need to speak English has caused a very low pass rate and thus disbarring those who can’t read, write or speak proper English from the better jobs.
We have a lot of problems and no solutions. Just promises and lies and tricks and patches.
But when it comes to track and field, no apologies, no shame.
When we take the field, the whole world is watching.
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Our TV gave us problems too when we tried to watch the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. At first, we couldn't get any sound. Then when we finally got sound, they weren't speaking in English!! Yeah yeah yeah. I'm a spoiled rotten American who thinks the rest of the world should speak MY language. My husband got tired of it, tuned out and started listening to his music videos. :) You are spot on about the runners from Jamaica. Amazing! :)
They didn't broadcast the whole opening ceremony here. And the events that we are in were a bit jumpy the first two days.
It is very interesting to see and look Jamaica Olympic Games on TV sitting at home with family and children but very bad the whole cremoney was not telecaster by the national and international channels for public.
But I think that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will bid for a third successive Olympic 100m title, while world 200m silver medallist Elaine Thompson has been selected for both the 100m and 200m.
Other leading names on the team include world indoor 60m hurdles champion Omar McLeod, world shot put bronze medallist O’Dayne Richards and two-time Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown.
It is the biggest event on earth and most important for the public. Race is more important part of Olympic Games especially of 100mt because According to Live Strong, training for the 100m sprint "requires the development of strength, power transfer and flexibility".
The 100m sprint can be broken down into the start, acceleration and maximum speed phases, says athletic trainer Phil Davies. Sprinters have to lean forward and deliver maximum thrust to their feet during the start phase for the first 10 meters, and then slowly move the body upright for the next 50 meters during the acceleration phase, and then go into long-stride deceleration during the final 40 meters of the race.