By Calvin Palmer
There’s happy and there is Shelly-Ann Fraser happy. The 21-year-old Jamaican sprinter upset the form book and dented a few reputations, as she stormed to victory in the Women’s 100m Final in Beijing.
If her sprint to the finishing line was stunning, it was nothing compared to the celebration that followed. She bounced around [...]
August 18, 2008
Jamaican girls sprint into history
August 18, 2008
Romania’s Izbasa floors U.S. girls
By Calvin Palmer
Romania’s Sandra Izbasa brought her country back into the gymnastics gold medal spotlight last night when she won the Women’s Floor Exercise Final, in Beijing, with a performance of grace and perfectly executed acrobatics.
As the winner of the gold medal for the floor exercise in the 2008 European Championships, she was quietly confident [...]
