Next Tuesday, September 20 at 6pm, the Jamaica Pegasus and Things Jamaica will have their 1st Artisan Village showcasing local manufacturers, designers and artists along with entertainment.
ADMISSION is FREE. Support Brand Jamaica!
The Layer Cake’s Special Gourmet Lunch this Friday!
Caterer, Trevanne Donegal is leaving on a Jet plane to London! Don’t worry folks, it’s just for a year to sharpen her culinary skills. Those of you who have had the pleasure of tasting her food must be wondering why she would need to do that, but more knowledge means more power.
Here is a reminder of some of Trevanne’s dishes and desserts that have tantalised our tastebuds:
Join Trevanne for her last and most delicious Gourmet Lunch Special to date this Friday from 12noon to 6pm. Dessert will be on sale as well as Wine specials for $300 per glass.
Venue: JERKAZ Restaurant
2 Downer Avenue, St. AndrewÂ
By: Gabrielle Burgess
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What was going on with the Fashion on the Red Carpet of the VMAs last night?!
Horrendous to say the least. Suga still can’t declare a Best Dressed or even narrow down the Worst Dressed. There were so many violations of Fashion.
Joan Rivers is rolling over in her grave and Fashion Police on E! is going to have a field day later.
Well if you missed it, here you go!
What were they thinking?! There are a lot of featherless birds out there.
The Men were not much better either. Will Smith, please help your son.
Two did not make one for those that came in pairs. It was obvious Kim K didn’t even finish drying her hair. Blue Ivy looked cute but was spending 11k on that dress really necessary? I’m sure similar could be found in a costume store.
Although Nicki could hardly walk in her dress and I’m still not sure about Cassie, thanks to the ladies who did something right!
Congratulations to the lady of the night, Rihanna, whose last look was beautiful. I’m sure it wasn’t just me who thought Drake was going to propose while he presented the VMAs Vanguard award to her last night, proclaiming he has been in love with Rihanna from he was 22. Great speech.
Triple-Double for Usain Bolt! Schedule with Starting Line-Up and more for the Relays!
No World Record last night but USAIN BOLT created more history completing his Triple in the 200m with GOLD in 19.78!
He didn’t run the curve as well as he usually does (because of the rain perhaps?) but ran a good curve nonetheless ahead of the field. He also did not power through the stretch and separate himself from about 60m to 80m left like old times, but that’s age.
It is obvious he wanted a better time but with the injury and only competing in the 200m once before the Olympics, compounded with the weather conditions and him concentrating too hard on his time, all factored into the result.
One step at a time Usain. The title was most important last night and Jamaicans couldn’t be prouder.
According to USA Today, Andre DeGrasse of Canada had talks about tiring out Usain in the Semi-Final since he is younger so should recover faster for the Final. He also said if Usain breaks the World Record he would be right their with him. Well, looks like he was the one who didn’t recover faster because he got the Silver in 20.02 after runing 19.80 in the Semi-Final. Suga believes their Bromance has come to a quick end.
It was a close call for the Bronze but Cristophe LeMaitre of France came through for it in 20.12. He has never given up! Adam Gemili of Great Britain was 4th in 20.12 separated by thousandths of a second. Churandy Martina of Netherlamds was 5th in 20.13.
LaShawn Merritt showed his age last night too (30 years) as well as the fact that he may have been too tired from the 400m and placed 6th.
So it is a nicely mixed podium and Usain Bolt removed all doubts if any and showed that he IS the G.O.A.T.
Moving on to later today, Usain will go for the Triple-Triple, where Gold in the 4×100m Relay will have him retire from his last Olympics with a perfect slate.
Young Elaine Thompson also has the opportunity to go after a Triple for the 1st time.
Note that Jamaica is the first country to have a man and woman win the 100m and 200m in the same Olympics!
Our Jamaican Men and Women will not have it easy in the 4×100m Relays with tired legs for the Men and a faster US team for the Ladies. But fingers crossed things will still go our way!
Starting Line-ups are suspected to be as follows:
Women’s 4×100m Relay Team
Christania to Elaine to VCB to Shelly
Men’s 4×100m Relay Team
Ashmeade to Asafa to Blake to Bolt
Lane Assignments are as follows:
Women:
Men:
Full Schedule:
Good Luck Jamaica!
By: Gabrielle Burgess
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Another GOLD for Ja! Ready for Tomorrow’s Schedule?!
GOLD FOR JAMAICA IN THE 110m MEN HURDLES!!!!!
OMAR McLEOD has done it in 13.05! Spectacular race, execution of hurdles and clear win! He kept his focus the entire way.
Orlando Ortega of Spain won Silver in 13.17 and Dimitri Bascou of France won Bronze in 13.24.
Congrats Omar!!! We are so proud of you! Although it was expected we know it was not easy to pull off with hurdles. Well done.
With so much excitement we are ready for tomorrow’s 200m Women Final Showdown between Elaine and Dafne! It won’t be easy for Elaine who ran 2nd to Dafne, easing up and failing to secure a good lane. Keeping in mind Ta Lou and Bowie won their Semi-Finals.
Here is your Schedule!
Today’s Schedule in RIO!
Yesterday was quite a day in RIO!
Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas literally dived for Gold to win the 400m. Allyson Felix had to take Silver. Congrats to our girl, Shericka Jackson who won Bronze!
Note that her dive over the line was not the first of the night! It occured in the 110m Hurdles for one of the athletes to make 4th to qualify. Paradigm shift?
Terror in the Heats of the  110m Men’s Hurdles. Deuce Carter had to do a run-over in the Heats to make it in the Semis as a result of the heavy rains earlier in the evening that stopped races after his Heat on the track, where he tripped over hurdles and got a time which would not have qualified without the run-over.
Leah Nugent of Jamaica got a DQ after coming 2nd in the 400m Hurdles Heats for her poor execution of a hurdle, appealed and was reinstated later in the night for the Semis.
On a lighter note, Congrats to David Rudisha of Kenya for Defending and winning Gold in the 800m! First man in 50 years to win the 800m back to back.
If you have all recovered from yesterday’s events in RIO, here is today’s Schedule:
Diving (3m Springboard) Semi-Final: 8 am
Diving (3m Springboard) Final: 4pm
Yona Qualifies for the Semi-Final of the Diving Competition!
Yona Knight Wisdom did the dab to the camera after his last and highest scoring dive of 79.05 for Round 6 of the Preliminary Diving Competition.
After being 11th at the end of Round 5, he made the top 18 for the Semi-Final with that high score.
Well done Yoni. We are proud of you. Keep it going!
Yoni’s Standings after each round:
Round 1: 24th
Round 2: 22nd
Round 3: 12th
Round 4: 10th
Round 5: 11th
Round 6: 11th
Usain Bolt cements his Name in History and Michael Johnson’s 17-year WR was broken!
Usain Bolt has done it! He is now the first Sprinter ever to win Gold in the 100m at the Olympics 3 consecutive times!
Everyone thought that after the Semi-Finals he was ready to clock 9.6 odd or sub 9.8s based on previous trends. Usain Bolt clocked the fastest time of 9.86 in the Semi-Finals looking from side to side at DeGrasse who came 2nd and Bromell who qualified as a fastest loser in 3rd.
Suga called all finalists for the Final except for Ben Youssef Meïté who ran his PB from Ivory Coast. Nickel Ashmeade was in his Semi-Final won by Jimmy Vicaut and certainly disappointed coming 5th in 10.05s. Akani Simbine of South Africa came 3rd.
Justin Gatlin won his Semi-Final easily ahead of Yohan Blake in 9.94s. But Gatlin fled to the tunnel afterwards because he probably knew what was in store for him.
What was in store? Usain Bolt having the second slowest reaction time out of the blocks, keeping Gatlin in sight until he reached 60m, knowing Gatlin would get tired and then just ran right past him to win Gold in 9.81s. He could have proven everyone right by clocking sub 9.8s, but he only seemed concerned about winning and beat his chest before the line. He tweeted that this win was for his Jamaican people. Thanks Usain because you certainly made our weekend. Gatlin took the Silver in 9.89. Andre DeGrasse from Canada was a close 3rd and won the Bronze in 9.91.
Yohan Blake came from behind and was 4th with his SB in 9.93s.
USA’s Trayvon Bromell came last.
Of course Gatlin was and still is the centre of social media memes. Besides being called a bus conductor, here are 2 of Suga’s faves:
Will Gatlin collect more Silver at his next stop by the 200m? We’ll see. In the mean time, Usain Bolt to di worl’!
In other news,
Tennis
Great Britain’s Andy Murray won Gold, beating Juan MartÃn del Potro of Argentina. Kei Nishikori of Japan defeated Spain’s Rafael Nadal to win the Bronze.
Nadal is not leaving RIO empty handed though because he won Gold in the Men’s Doubles.
Venus Williams and Ram lost out on the Gold medal after being up 6-3 in the decisive 3rd set to go down 7-10.
The USA still won Gold though with the pair of Mattek-Sands and Sock.
Women’s Triple Jump Final
Jamaica’s Kimberly Williams was unable to medal and came 7th. Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia won the Gold.
Men’s 400m Final
Wayde Van Niekerk from South Africa won the 400m with a WORLD RECORD of 43.03 out of Lane 8! He was way ahead of Kirani James of Grenada who got the Silver in 43.76 and USA’s LaShawn Merritt the Bronze in 43.85. He was .15s faster than Michael Johnson’s World Record set in 1999 that nobody thought would be broken.
Van Niekerk sprinted the entire 400m and could not see anyone. He even accelerated further on the final stretch. Magnificent run and Congrats to Van Niekerk who clearly saved all his gas for the Final.
The Sprinter who was in Jamaica a few months ago at the Jamaica National Racers Grand Prix, trained with Bolt for a few days leading up to the meet and they were happy to be able to Congratulate each other as Champions after their races.
Stay tuned for today’s packed Schedule!
By: Gabrielle Burgess
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Schedule for Athletics Today in RIO and Startlists for the Men’s 100m Semis!
Athletics later today in Rio!Â
100m Men’s Semi-Final Startlists:
Semi-Final 1
Semi-Final 2
Semi-Final 3
Predicted Finalists:
Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin, Yohan Blake, Trayvon Bromell, Akani Simbine, Jimmy Vicaut, Andre DeGrasse, Nickel Ashmeade
By: Gabrielle Burgess
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Have you seen the Starting Lineup for the Women’s 100m Semis?!
There will be showdowns before the Final starting today at 7pm!
It is doubtful that young, Christania Williams will make the final but we expect Shelly and Elaine to go through. Christania is quite determined though and is a promising sprinter with good form for our near future.
Semi-Final 1
Semi-Final 2
Semi-Final 3 !
Enjoy!