Woohoo!

These rag tag fellas carrying on the Golden Knights legacy ........ but what is going on at the junior level???? ....... We had no 400m male medalists in 2018 Carifta

Stephen Newbold is not rag tag! I just asked about him at the Carifta games wasn't sure if he was still performing. But here he is with a medal! I also spent the last hour watching old carifta tapes, like you say, where are these people!!! We gat some speedsters at the high school level.

Where is Stephen Gardiner????? ........ He is the best 400m runner in the world this year .......... Has he stopped running for the country??????? .......... Is he and BAAA/BOA in some dispute??????? .............. AND MUMS THE WORD.

oh the Tribune had a story on him just last week, he competed in Florida, I think he broke a record. I suppose that doesn't eliminate your conspiracy theory so I'll put on my foil hat just in case.

Ok. The news said he had to remain hostage in the USA to collect his green card.

Yes that's it...on second thought I'll keep my tin foil hat on, the conspiracy theory could have gotten stronger

Raymond Oriakhi took the silver medal in the U17 400m. Initially he got Bronze but the Bajan athlete got disqualified moving him up to silver.

Oriakhi!! He's very tall, maybe he's another Stephen Gardiner, or... Maybe he's the first Oriaki

That last leg by Alonzo Russell was just amazing! Congratulations to all the team, what a great way to finish the games.

Do you have a link for the video? Been searching all weekend. Will check again

This Commonwealth Games team highlighted for me just how disorganised and uncoordinated our national sports team selection process is in this country. We sent kids to swim at the Games days after competing at the CARIFTA Swimming Championships and expected miraculous results out of them. That has to be as ignorant as it gets; they should have gone to one competition or the other but not to both. We send a 39 year old triathlete, an elderly table tennis player, 2 cyclists and a 36 year old wrestler to the Games, none of whom appear to have exposure or records of achievement at the international level or stood any real chance of achieving a high placing in their sport at the Games. They went in with very little and came out the same way, other than to say they competed at a Commonwealth Games. We send 4 women to compete in a 4 x 100m relay but then withdraw them without actually running. Better to have let them run their race, after all that's what you took them all the way to Australia to do. Look at what happened with the men's 4 x 400m relay team? A silver medal with none of the big horses running on the team, a bunch of no-names most of us never heard of besides Dirty. What is it that we are trying to achieve at these Games? To say that we took a bunch of athletes from different sports to gain international exposure? Or that we are trying to make finals, achieve high placing, make quarter finals/semifinals/finals and maybe win medals in as many of these sports as we can? We don't seem to have a long-term plan as to why do we attend these Games or what do we hope to achieve by going. It has to be about more than just attending for attending's sake.

Because these BOA/Federation heads are getting shit loads of money to spend on trips all around the world ....... with NO junior/island programs ....... so they pick up any trash and put country colours on them and say we have a "national team" ........... Sports is a big, fat, elitist joke in this country.

No basketball program ....... No baseball program ...... No softball program ....... Thank God for NCAA track/swim programs ........ The others are pipe dreams ......... And cricket is our national sport???????

The Minister of Sports is very dishonest and disingenuous when he speaks about "our sports power" ....... We have too many selfish, bigoted sports administrators.

I heard about Dirty before..remember he was the young man in school in Florida who outran the police dog. I recall him running at two competitions at the stadium post that dog outrunning feat. One was IAAF and I believe the other was Carifta but I'm not sure could have been the Chris Brown invitational.