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Jamaican Athletics: A model For the World
Cover of Jamaican Athletics by Patrick Robinson
Since 1948, Jamaica has won seven Gold, twenty-four Silver and nineteen Bronze Medals at the Olympic Games. In this Olympic year, a timely book by Jamaican Patrick Robinson looks at what has made Jamaicans such exceptional athletes.
“What has been achieved is with few or no resources,” said Robinson at his publication’s Brussels’ launch of Jamaican Athletics: A model For the World. Robinson is a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague but a keen sports-follower. Robinson said the system that has evolved in Jamaica through the Interscholastic Championships (CHAMPS) is at the heart of success at the junior level. At senior level, prior to the 1970s, many budding Jamaican athletes used to head for the United States.The College of Arts Science and Technology (CAST), to become the University of Technology (UTECH), filled the void. “I see a tremendous opportunity for Jamaica to become a hub for athletic and serve as a global athletic centre,” said the author.
Jamaican athletics - a Model for the World by Patrick Robinson.
