DADDY BOLT!!!! BIG UPS!!

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A beaming Wellesley Bolt touched down at the Sangster International Airport here at about 6:15 am yesterday, full of excitement at having made the trip to Beijing, China, where his son Usain shattered the 100m and 200m world records and helped the 4x100m relay team set a new world record at the just concluded games of the 29th Olympiad.

"I enjoyed it all...the whole thing...it was great, just great," he told the welcoming party comprising journalists, representatives of his corporate sponsors, Digicel Jamaica, and the Jamaica Tourist Board.
Wellesley Bolt (left) regales Joy Clarke, Digicel's regional sales manager, Western Jamaica, with tales from Beijing, China, yesterday on his arrival at the Sangster International Airport. (Photo: Pat Roxborough-Wright)Wellesley Bolt (left) regales Joy Clarke, Digicel's regional sales manager, Western Jamaica, with tales from Beijing, China, yesterday on his arrival at the Sangster International Airport. (Photo: Pat Roxborough-Wright)

Initially reluctant to make the long trip to eastern Asia - he feared the almost 20-hour journey would prove too much for him - Bolt senior left the island last Tuesday at Digicel's insistence to join up with his son hours ahead of his 22nd birthday.

Yesterday, he said he was very happy he went as the experience was beyond anything he had ever imagined.

"I became a celebrity...the people there mobbed me, wanting my autograph...and things like that. The police had to take me away," he said excitedly. "Then when I saw Usain after the 200m, he said, 'Daddy, how do you feel?' I said 'great' and we hugged...it was great," he said.

Looking smart in blue denims and Puma brand tee, cap and shoes, Wellesley Bolt said the first thing he was going to do when he got back to his home in Sherwood Content was rest.

However, in spite of his fatigue, he spent several minutes regaling journalists with anecdotes from the Beijing experience before Digicel's representatives saw him off in the red Mitsubishi Grandis motor van they rented for his convenience.

The conversation covered almost everything about his son, from his upbringing and diet, to his engaging personality, reflected in Usain's on-track dancing celebrations which ticked off the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge.

"It doesn't matter what anybody wants to say...it's the yam, banana, coco," Wellesley Bolt explained. "Usain loves yam, it's only when he got older that he began to like rice and peas.and he always had a quart of cow's milk every morning."

On arriving home, he found it impossible to sleep and within hours it was back to business, writing up bills for his grocery shop.
"I could have gone to sleep as nobody realised I was back since it was a strange vehicle. But I'm not used to sleeping in the day, so it's back to work for me," he told the Observer later in the day.

Bolt's mother, Jennifer, who is spending a few days in London, is expected back by the end of the week, while Bolt is expected back some time next month.

WE KNEW IT WAS COMEING!! OFF THE RUMOR MILL FROM MEDIATAKEOUT.

EXPLOSIVE RUMOR: MIAMI DOLPHINS COACH BILL PARCELLS SENDS TALENT SCOUT TO CHINA TO 'TALK' TO USAIN BOLT ABOUT POSSIBLY COMING TO THE NFL!!!



World record holding Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt may have good things in store for him when he gets back to this side of the world. MediaTakeOut.com just spoke to a person affiliated with the NFL's Miami Dolphins organization who claims that Bill Parcells is interested in trying out Bolt for the Miami Dolphins.

The insider told MediaTakeOut.com, "Coach Parcells kept saying that he wanted to try out Bolt and [all the players] thought he was just joking. But now [one of the scouts] is on a plane to China to talk with Usain's manager."

6 foor 4 and runs the 100 meter in 9.6 seconds. Can't say we blame Bill for trying...


T4R: IF THIS IS TRUE ALL WE CAN SAY IS DON'T DO IT SIR BOLT, WE KNEW IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE BIGGIES EYES START SEEING DOLLAR SIGNS!! AND IT WIL NOT BE IN YOUR BEST INTREST ONLY THEIRS!! BIG UPS MI YUTE!!!

NO STERIODS FOR BOLT!! THEY JUST KEEP ON HATEING ON JAMAICA!!! GET OVER IT!!

Twenty years after the biggest doping scandal in Olympic history, it was as inevitable as the sunrise that world records would be followed by questions about doping - and one of Jamaica's team doctors was ready.

Minutes after Usain Bolt smashed the 200 metres record with a stirring 19.30-second dash, Herb Elliott was heading off speculation that the world's fastest man was fuelled by performance enhancers.

"I test in Jamaica, and I have tested Usain 15 times since November of last year," said Elliott, an internist and former track athlete for the Caribbean island. "He's been tested another six times since he's been here, including blood tests.

"Anybody who wants to cast aspersions on our program for drugs, I say one thing [to them]: Go to hell."

Jamaican sprinters had said - only half-seriously - before the Olympic track meet that they'd been asked for so many blood tests that they were afraid they'd be too weakened to run their best.

But the suspicion has lingered over the world's top sprinters since Canadian Ben Johnson set a world record for the 100 metres while on the steroid stanozolol at the Seoul Games in 1988. Elliott was reminded that Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis, had made similar denials because his charge was passing tests.

"Charlie Francis was an idiot," Elliott countered. "He had [the late doctor] Jamie Astaphan and he was lying about it. I don't have to lie."

Elliott, who said he has known 6-foot-5 Bolt since he was "a gangling boy of 13," said he didn't resent being quizzed about whether the new world's fastest man is running a clean race. "I don't resent the questions," he said. "All people are entitled to ask."

He said Bolt had been fast from childhood "and he's still the [junior] 400-metre record holder from the boys school championships. He wanted to up his speed, so he dropped down to the 200 and 100.

"His coach, Glen Mills, has done a great job, and his parents have kept him down to terra firma."

Another Jamaican team physician, Warren Blake, said all eight finalists in the 100 metres were tested after Bolt smashed the world record with a time of 9.69 seconds.

"It validates all results," he said. "It has come to the time when the cheats are on the back foot."

JUST THE OTHER DAY IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters.

“That’s not the way we perceive being a champion,” Rogge said.“I have no problem with him doing a show,” Rogge said in an interview with three international news agency reporters. “I think he should show more respect for his competitors and shake hands, give a tap on the shoulder to the other ones immediately after the finish and not make gestures like the one he made in the 100 meters.”

These Haters stay nitpicking for every little thing. Sir Bolt just turned 22 years-old and is tearing up the track. Who gives a crap if he didn’t shake hands. Let the man enjoy his victory. (SMH). source Bossip.com

T4R:

BIG UPS SIR BOLTS!!!! Do what you do best!!

WTF!! NBC HAETING ON USAIN BOLT!!!

Usain Bolt picked a bad night to run the most electrifying 100 meter race in Olympic history. As Michael Phelps' eighth gold medal dominated television coverage, Internet sites and newspaper headlines in the United States on Saturday night, Bolt's scintillating 9.69 was buried as a second story. Normally the premiere race of every Games, the men's 100 final received scant domestic publicity despite it's historic, thrilling result.

Clearly, the 12-hour time difference played a huge role in the under-coverage of Bolt's feat. While Michael Phelps' races garnered live coverage on NBC (because it was competed in the morning in Beijing), Bolt's wasn't shown until nearly 13 hours after its completion. Even then, it felt like an afterthought to Phelps' eighth gold medal swim.

NBC is said to be worried about post-Phelps ratings for these Olympics, yet they squandered the opportunity to turn Bolt into their second-week star by dumping his race in the outer-reaches of primetime and then giving it no notice on yesterday's broadcast. Bolt's speed, charisma, youth and good looks make him a prime candidate to be the breakout star of these Games. The Peacock Network is more concerned with squeezing every last ounce of coverage out of Michael Phelps though. (Not that I blame them.)

Bolt will have the stage to himself on Wednesday when he runs the 200 and is expected to challenge Michael Johnson's 12-year old world record. Hopefully he'll get the coverage he deserves.

T4R EDITOR:
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF MY PEOPLE , SEEING AS WE ARE SUCH A SMALL ISLAND WE ARE STRONG PROUD AND DETERMINED. MR BOLT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN THE WAY YOU CELEBRATED YOUR WINNING, I HAVE SEEN ANOTHER COUNTRY DID A LOT MORE GRAND STANDING RUN THROUGH THE CROWDS AND WAVE HIS FLAG, I GUESS THAT WAS OKAY. JEALOUSY SURE IS A DISEASE,CONGRATS ALL JAMAICAN ATHLETES WE LOVE YOU AND ARE SO PROUD TO CALL OURSELVES JAMAICAN GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

LIGHTING BOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FAEST MAN ALIVE!! BIG UPS!!

Usain Bolt of Jamaica easily broke his own world record in the 100 meters to win the Olympic gold medal Saturday night, slowing up to celebrate and still finishing in 9.69 seconds.

Bolt stretched his arms out wide and put his palms out, then slapped his chest just before crossing the line. He came in well below his old mark of 9.72 seconds, set May 31 in New York - less than a year after Bolt took up the dash.

What had been billed as a showdown was not close at all. Richard Thompson of Trinidad took the silver medal in 9.89, and Walter Dix of the United States was third in 9.91.

The 21-year-old Bolt's performance left no doubt whatsoever about who deserves the title of "World's Fastest Man."

Former world record-holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica was fifth, while reigning world champion Tyson Gay of the United States failed to qualify for the final.

Bolt's specialty has been the 200 meters, which he will be a heavy favorite to win next week in what would be first men's Olympic sprint double since Carl Lewis in 1988. But he persuaded his coach to let him try the dash - and what quick progress Bolt has made.

JAMAICA NEW WORLD RECORD WORLDS FASTEST MAN!!!!!!!! BIG UPS!!

RANDALL'S ISLAND, New York, USA - Usain Bolt celebrates as he crosses the finish line in the men's 100m ahead of the field at last night's Reebok Grand Prix in a new world record time of 9.72 seconds. (Photo: Paul Reid)

Twenty-one-year-old Usain Bolt is the new world record-holder in the Men's 100 metres after smashing Asafa Powell's 10-month-old mark with a brilliant, scintillating 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix at the Icahan Stadium here last night.

Just after 11:00 pm New York time on a cool evening, after a false start and a recall, Bolt - who was running his fifth 100m as a senior - continued his assault on track & field's most prestigious event after running 9.76 and 9.92 seconds earlier this month.

Weather forecasters had predicted thunderstorms from mid-afternoon lasting through the evening. The light rains which fell early, however, held up and the meet started under clear skies with intermittent sunshine until the rains came.

RANDALL'S ISLAND, New York - Usain Bolt poses beside the timing clock showing his new world 100m record time of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix last night.


Bolt was not the only Jamaican winner as World and Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown won the Women's 100m.
Campbell-Brown shook off a false start to blaze to a world-leading 10.91 seconds into a negligible win 0.9 seconds per hour to win in a new meet record, beating her own 10.93secs set at last year's meet.

Campbell-Brown, who said she was a bit anxious when she false-started, edged Americans Marshevet Hooker, 10.94, and Muna Lee, 10.97.

Lauren Williams, who was expected to give Campbell-Brown her toughest competition, finished fourth in 11.13 seconds.
Pan-American Games 4x100m gold medallist, Peta-Gaye Dowdie, was fourth in the B race in 11.29 seconds behind winner Lisa Barber, who ran 11.13 seconds.

National 400m champion, Novlene Williams, was second in the 400m in 50.70 seconds, trailing Jamaican-born American Sanya Richards, who won in a new meet record 50.04 - the third fastest in the world this year and beating Allison Felix's 50.53 set last year.

Shereefa Lloyd was fourth in 51.49 seconds and Sonita Sutherland seventh in 52.89.

Danny McFarlane and Shevon Stoddart were both second in the Men's and Women's 400m hurdles races.

McFarlane, who told the Sunday Observer afterwards he was recovering from allergies earlier in the week, was "satisfied" with this 48.95 seconds clocking, but said he was looking to run a bit faster, "around 48.70".

McFarlane, who said he was "trying out" a new pair of spikes from his equipment sponsor, Reebok, said he felt a bit "sluggish" in the race.

The Trinidad-born USA representative, Kerron Clement, won in 48.40 seconds, while another American, Michael Tinsley, was third in 49.25 seconds.

Stoddart was beaten into second place by a new meet record 55.17 seconds run by the USA's Lashinda Demus, finishing in 55.54 seconds.

The previous record 55.46 seconds was set by Sheena Johnson in 2005.

Despite finishing at the back of the field in the Men's discus throw with a season best 60.14m, Jason Morgan was happy with his form.

Morgan, who will compete at the Island Games next weekend here in New York before coming home for the National Trials, achieved his best throw on his final attempt after just two legal throws of 56.48m and 56.04m.

Edino Steele was a close second in the Men's B 400m race, running 46.49 seconds out of lane 8, beaten to the line by the American Ericson Hurtault who won in 46.32 seconds.

Jermaine Gonzales, who was drawn in lane 2, was a disappointing eighth in 47.46 seconds.

The Trinidadian, Aaron Armstrong, won the B 100m race in 10.10 seconds, out-leaning the USA's Rodney Martin, 10.12, seconds and Ashhad Agyapong, 10.13. seconds.