May 26, 2013
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Posts tagged: Asafa Powell

LargeUp TV: Usain Bolt 100 Meter

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

Usain Bolt claimed victory in the 100 meters on Sunday with an Olympic record-setting 9.63 second 100-meter run in London, but right now Jamaicans are staging their own variation on the event. Negril landscape artist and “freestyle professor” Michael Macintosh, a/k/a “Usain,” has a created a track and field-themed version of the traditional Jamaican dice board game, ludi (a derivative of Parcheesi, or ludo) dubbed “Usain Bolt 100 Meter.” Macintosh, who works out of famed Jamaican sign painter Nurse’s shop near the bus park in Negril, breaks down the rules of the game, which pits the world’s fastest man against teammates Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell, Steve Mullins, Nesta Carter and Michael Frater, plus the “USA” and “England,” for our cameras, and introduces us to a master player named Veronica.

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Toppa Top 10: Ten Caribbean Athletes at the Summer Olympics


Words by Emily Shapiro and Jesse Serwer—

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Impressions: Champs from the Grandstand

Words and Photos by Martei Korley—

The Inter Secondary School Associations’ Boys and Girls Champs, or just ‘Champs,’ the annual Jamaican high school athletics championship which takes place at the national stadium in Kingston, has been held every year since 1910. As the strongest high school athletes island-wide compete in the event, this is where you would discover the next Merlene Ottey or Usain Bolt. Lots of future Olympians here, that’s for sure. You may even bump into a former or current Olympian, too…

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