You have no clue about what goes on in T&F circles so please keep yourself quiet. Many kids are plucked from that island to go run overseas and run a more INTENSE program (I am not talking about training) at their schools than the top USA athletes and are burnt out. So your inclusion of football into this argument is foolish. Alot of junior champs get burnt out quickly and NEVER make it to the senior level. If I need to explain it to you then something must be wrong with you. Oh yeah, alot get asked to run with injuries. Playing as a QB with an injury isnt as serious running rounds upon rounds of a 100 or 200 with an injury.MLAM said:...that an island of a few million just isn't as likely to produce as many top athletes as a country of 300 million, huh? Had to be cheating....
As best I understand - no one has yet to prove that Marion Jones has failed a drug test anywhere, ever. Which puts her on par (presumably) with your friend. But clearly Marion must be on drug, but there was time...years ago...when your friend beat her. Right.
I'm not saying that many T&F athletes are not on drugs - clearly many are. I am saying you just slagged a bunch of people with no edvidence other than "they beat us". Which really is a losers mindset.
Oh...BTW...this...
"but its also the messed up programs these university/college coaches give us when we get track scholarships to run in the USA running us into the ground but thats a whole different show."
...is the worse whining I have ever heard from an athlete before (and yes, I was one at one time - football, NCAA D-I). Same training programs that made some champions "messed up" you and your comtempories. Right...
And so what if the USA has 300 mil and Jamaica has 2.5mil, I am sure you see the results Jamaica gets on the track. Don't you think that is why SO MANY American college coaches come to high champs to take the kids back to America? Do you know how many coaches are there every year? Even the very ORDINARY sprinters get scholarships. You have no clue so if you need to buy one we can work out a special price.
Hey, they even get a few Jamaicans run for them. See Sandra Farmer Patrick(400hurdles), Jerome Young(400m) and the current 400m world leader Sanya Richards. No relation to Sandie Richards who ran for 400m Jamaica. Jamaicans who run for Canada like Ben and DBailey arent really missed that much because the tiny island still produces an enormous about of talent to get by.
that famous 4by1 team for Canada:
2 Jamaicans(Esmie and Bailey), a Trini(Gilbert) and a Haitian(Surin). Imagine them not coming to Canada? Same with that chap from Guyana winning Canada its first ever track medals way back in the day.
No we don't have loser mentality but we know that our talent are seen as THREATS even if you do not think so.
Loser mentality? Who won the last Olys women's 4 by 1? After our girl ate up the stagger on Marion Jones she panicked and the rest was history. Oh VC won the 200 as well. Losers? Jamaican T&F? lol. You better check your facts. Would you like the tape of the 1952 Helsinki 4by4 relay that started it all in Helsinki when Dr Wint (former member of the Royal Air Force-set the Canadian record while there i nthe early 40s) and Dr McKenley put a whipping on the Brits and USA and started the Jamaican track prominence. Oh yeah, Dr Wint winning the flat 400 and Dr Mckenley coming 2nd in 1948 London Oly Games(the 1-2) is what I should say started it. We have produced quite a few T&F champs. Certainly more than nations larger in size/population which has nothing to do with it. We would have won the 1948 4by4 as well but Wint pulled a muscle. Good thing he didnt in 1952 and we won the relay then. We did the 400flat 1-2 in both 1948(Wint and McKenley) and 1952(Rhoden and McKenley). These three men made up the 48 and 52 relay teams. It was since then the US coaches took note.
Over the years at Olys, Worlds and other events such as the Golden League you can go research how many 'losers' we have produced.
Population size does NOT dictate dominance. What sport exactly is India dominating?
PS: Nikole wasnt my friend but she was the top junior sprinter in her day and beat Marion all the time. She got burnt out, injured and didnt run much at senior level because she wasnt the same after even though she was decent. She ran only relays (lead off). Alot of these athletes suffer some serious injuries after getting run into the ground. Some also are asked to run so much that their school work suffer and get sent back home in a hurry when they start to fail that part. Some get career(college) ending injuries and are sent back in a hurry as well.