Posts tagged: 2012 Olympics

Video: Watch Keshorn Walcott Get A Hero’s Welcome in Trinidad

August 14, 2012

Words by Jesse Serwer, via CTV—

If you figured the record-breaking, world-bossing, US-embarrassin’ Jamaican athletes would get the most massive welcome home reception in the Caribbean after the Olympics, then you’d probably be mistaken. Dozens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Trinis crammed into Piarco International Airport airport yesterday to welcome home gold medal-winning javelin thrower Keshorn Walcott. Monday was even named a national holiday in honor of the 19-year-old Walcott, the youngest ever gold medalist in his sport and the second-ever gold medalist from TnT; a Caribbean Airlines jet will also be named for him.

Tags:2012 Olympics, Javelin, Keshorn Walcott, Port of Spain, T&T, TNT, Track and Field, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago

LargeUp TV: Half Way Tree, Kingston Reacts to Jamaica’s 4×100-meter World Record

August 12, 2012

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Words by Jesse Serwer, Photos and Video by Martei Korley—

Tags:2012 Olympics, Caribbean, Downtown Kingston, Half Way Tree, Halfway Tree, Jamaica, Kingston, London 2012, London Olympics, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake

Olympic Sound: London 2012 Meets Vintage Trini Calypso In Who Jax’s “London Town”

July 27, 2012

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Words by Jesse Serwer—

With all due respect to Mitt Romney’s foot and mouth, the Caribbean, in the form of the Jamaican track team, is the central storyline at the London Olympics kicking off tonight. So it’s only right that London 2012 have a summer anthem with some Caribbean flavor. The funky house of “London Town” by Who Jax, a side project of the diverse crew behind Orange Hill Productions, isn’t the sort of thing we usually run over here but listen closely, and you’ll hear samples from Trini calypsonian Lord Kitchener’s “London Is The Place For Me.” Watch the video for “London Town” below, and get up to date on the Orange Hill camp in this interview with OHP’s Ras Kwame and Jnr. Tubby.

Tags:2012 Olympics, London, Lord Kitchener, Orange Hill, Whojax

Fashion Fridays: Cedella Marley + Puma’s Jamaican Olympic Uniforms

June 15, 2012

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Words by Jesse Serwer—

It’s a foregone conclusion that Jamaica will dominate the track and field competition at this summer’s London Olympics. But not being able to see the future, we can’t actually guarantee it. What we can guarantee is that Jamaica’s athletes will look the best of any nation’s in London, thanks to Cedella Marley’s uniforms for the 2012 team. We told you last year about the collaboration between Bob Marley’s eldest daughter (and long-time designer behind the Marley family’s Catch a Fire clothing label) and Puma, but last week Cedella unveiled her designs at a London fashion show featuring models including—who else—Usain Bolt himself.

Tags:2012 Olympics, Arthur Wint, Cedella Marley, Jamaica, London Olympics, Track and Field, Usain Bolt

Seen: Usain Bolt x Joan Smalls x Vogue

May 22, 2012

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Words by Jesse Serwer, Photos by Patrick Demarchelier—

The 2012 Summer Olympics are about to bear down on us like humid London fog on a drizzly August afternoon, and Usain Bolt, easily the most heralded and talked-about athlete in the competition, is going to be EVERYWHERE. Vogue recently dispatched stunning, Puerto Rican-born model Joan Smalls to trail the world’s fastest man while a documentary crew and famed fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier captured him amidst speed work training. Where most athletes would keep a low profile during this grueling process, in typical Bolt fashion the sprinter appears to be having the time of his life with his model companion, while taking time to elaborate on his soccer and DJ ambitions with writer,Robert Sullivan. (“I think football is much easier,” Bolt said when asked to weigh the comparative difficulty of playing professional soccer or spinning tunes in Kingston).

Tags:2012 Olympics, Jamaica, Jamaica Track & Field, Jamaicans, Joan Smalls, Patrick Demarchelier, Usain Bolt, Vogue Magazine

Jump and Win: Olympic Dreams for Haitian Athlete Samyr Laine

January 8, 2012

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Words By Nico Simino, via BBC—

With all of the tragedy that has struck Haiti the last few years, one positive note that has emerged is Samyr Laine. Laine, who was born and raised in New York City, will soon be competing in the triple jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Because Laine’s parents are both from Haiti, he can represent the island at the games. ”I am a US citizen but when it comes to competing or representing Haiti I feel I am an ambassador on an international level,” Laine told the BBC. “I wear my red and blue on my sleeve and the country is near and dear to me.”

Tags:2012 Olympics, Haiti, Haitians, London Olympics, Samyr Laine, Track and Field, Triple jump