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Vote for Usain Bolt – 2012 TIME 100 Poll

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Vote for Usain Bolt – 2012 TIME 100 Poll

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bolt ran a record 9.69 in the 100 m, even while slowing down at the finish. In the 2009 Worlds, he clocked a 9.58 — another 100-m record. What does the world's fastest man have in store for the London Olympics? Fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake, who won the 100 m at the 2011 Worlds after Bolt was disqualified because of a false start, has emerged as a worthy rival. Still, as long as Bolt is lined up, he'll always be the man to beat. Vote for Usain Bolt - HERE

BBC’s Health Check makes a stop at the “sprint capital of the world” – Jamaica

Claudia Hammond reports from the sprint capital of the world, Jamaica, for the second of four special Health Check programmes on the lifecycle of an athlete. In "From Promise to the Podium", she investigates how this tiny island, of fewer than three million people, so consistently turns out world class track athletes. At the first race meet of the season, at the National Stadium in Kingston, she watches hundreds of school children from the country's high schools competing at the Camperdown Classic, and then holds her breath with the rest of the crowd, as the world's youngest-ever 100m World Champion, Yohan Blake, runs a personal best in the 400 metres. Jamaican sprint training has come home, and most of the elite athletes now choose to stay on the island with the top coaches at Race...

Jamaica and other CARICOM countries to benefit from green energy projects

At least four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are to benefit from US$600 million in financing for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Central America and the Caribbean over the next five years. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will also contribute funds towards the projects. The framework agreement was signed during the IDB’s annual meeting on Friday between IDB president Luis Albert Moreno and JICA senior special advisor Hiroto Arakawa. The IDB said that Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Suriname will benefit from the JICA financing as well as the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. “For more than 30 years, Japan has been a great partner of the IDB and, in particular, ...