NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022 26 INDEPENDENCE SPECIAL: JAMAICA @ 60 AND B YOND F ATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022 When ashes cold, dog sleep dere. TRANSLATION: When the ashes are cold, even a dog can sleep there. (Beckwith) EXPLANATION: Circumstances alter cases. (Anderson, Cundall) OLE TIME PEOPLE USED TO SAY ... 8 Transformed the sport of Track and Field: Known as the ‘sprint factory’ of the world, Jamaica has produced some of the world’s greatest runners. Athletes such as Merlene Ottey, Veronica CampbellBrown, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and particularly Usain Bolt, the fastest man alive, have helped to transform the entire field of athletics from a fading sport to the most popular event at the Olympic Games. Breaking record after record, Jamaican athletes have set new bars of achievement in world athletics and have given the world new sprint techniques and coaching tactics. 9 Inspired confidence and courage through bobsled: Since its historic participation in theWinter Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada, in 1988, although hailing from a country where snow does not exist, the Jamaican bobsled team has been an example of courage, confidence and triumph over adversity for many people around the world. Many other nations fromwith tropical climates have since participated in theWinter Games, drawing inspiration from Jamaica. At the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2015, the Jamaica bobsled teamwas the centre of international media attention for the enduring glory they bring to the Games. 10 Gave the world one of the most inspiring films of the last century, ‘Cool Runnings ’. The inspired participation of the Jamaican bobsled team at the Winter Olympics in 1988 became the subject of the popular Disney film ‘Cool Runnings’. This is perhaps the most well-known film set in Jamaica and its human plot of courage and confidence and optimism continues to capture the imagination of people around the world. It is worth mentioning that the Jamaican film‘The Harder They Come’, starring reggae singer, Jimmy Cliff, helped to project Jamaica around the world, exposing life in the reggae industry and the subculture in which it finds its message. Taken from https://oneloverepublic. wordpress.com/ 10 THINGS CONTINUED FROM 24 From left: Jamaica’s Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt and Michael Frater celebrate their gold medal after the men’s 4x100-metre relay final in Beijing in 2008. Members of the cast of ‘Cool Runnings’, the popular Disney Film about the exploits of the Jamaica bobsled team at the Winter Olympics in 1988. PHOTOS FROMTHE GLEANER ARCHIVES jamaica at BUILDING A NATION OF GREATNESS
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