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Andrei Cross Andrei Cross

Barbadian swimmer Andrei Cross came back strongly from a three-year lay off between 2002 to 2005 caused by a serious shoulder injury which kept him from competitive swimming.

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  • SPECIAL BOLT PERFORMANCE

    SPECIAL BOLT PERFORMANCE

      It is not often in life that one gets to witness a special performance like the one we saw from Usain Bolt at the Gibson Relays on Saturday. That special performance was not the easy 9-second anchor leg 'jog' put down by the triple world and Olymp...

  • LOOKING AHEAD NOW SO WE DONT FALTER LATER

    LOOKING AHEAD NOW SO WE DONT FALTER LATER

    There is no one reason why over the past two years more and more kids are turning out for track training. It could be that they were inspired by the success of Asafa Powell, Sherone Simpson, Brigette Foster, Veronica Campbell Brown and others on the Grand...

  • ASAFA SHOWING SOME FIRE AND I LIKE IT

    ASAFA SHOWING SOME FIRE AND I LIKE IT

    I was watching a video on TrackAlerts.com this week of former world record holder Asafa Powell being interviewed. Among other things, he was asked what he thought of Justin Gatlin's comments that he is returning from his drug ban ready to challenge the to...

  • IS IT TIME OUR ATHLETES CHECK THEMSELVES?

    IS IT TIME OUR ATHLETES CHECK THEMSELVES?

    Chairman of the RJR Group Gary Allen made an eyebrow-raising statement earlier this week that I think sends a message that all is not right in athlete land. The Chairman revealed that the media group, the primary sponsors of the JAAA's Sportsman/Sportswo...

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