With only a few days before the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, NACAC athletes have shown that they are rounding into form at the right time.
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Vincentian gold and silver medallist at the NACAC U23 Championships in Costa Rica last week, Shafiqua Maloney, now heads to Japan and will carry the national flag of our country at the Opening Ceremony, 23 July.
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The first Olympic athlete from the Caribbean to win an Olympic medal while representing his own country was the Haitian long jumper Silvio Cator, who won a silver at the 1928 Games. However, the British sprinter Harry Edward ,who was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) had mounted the victory stand twice in 1920,winning bronze medals in both the 100 and 200 metre dashes. He would be followed eight years later by another Guyanese sprinter, Jack London, who won a silver medal in the 100 metres and a bronze in the 4×100 metre relay for Great Britain.
On June 3rd 2020 World Athletics published a press release outlining its four-year strategic plan as well as details regarding the Olympic qualifying process for various events.
Arthur Wint is part of an amazing array of Jamaican and Caribbean sporting, but more particularly, athletics talent that shook the world at the Summer Olympics in London, UK, in 1948.