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It nice when you do something and yuh fren and family big yuh up, but a big up from a neighbor is a special big up.
Chat-Bout invites you to enjoy this brilliantly written and highly humourous article published in the Barbados Advocate. The writer is Eric Lewis. BOY look, them Jamaican athletes up at the Olympics is something else, I aint telling no lie, especially the long leg horse in a human body name Usain Bolt. Man them make me feel proud to be Caribbean.
When I see that boy take off in the 100 metre sprint final, slow down and tell the other athletes behind he to hurry up and come long and still he mange to break the world record was a joy to behold, and then to see what he do with them in the 200 metres on his way to breaking another world record was unbelievable. I aint care who them bring, them could bring back Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, and Ben Johnson full o steroids, that Jamaican boy would pop out them tongues, he does make running look like shelling peas. So even though last week I tell wunna that I does watch athletics with a certain degree of scepticism, since so much people does be looking to use steroids and cheat, I have to tip my hat to Usain Bolt and the rest of the Jamaicans for what they have been able to accomplish at the games so far.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world wanta know what it is bout Jamaica that got them producing such world class runners for such a small nation, cause remember, them got some people in America that got swimming pools bigger than Jamaica, so them wanta know how one lil small place could produce so much sprinters. In fact, the question was asked to Usain Bolts father. One reporter ask the father what the boy does eat that got he so fast, and the father replied, Yams.
True, Bolt’s father said that the boy does eat nuff yams, and from the time he say so all the yams at the Olympic games did sell out. True, true, the father say that the boy raise on yams. He aint say corn curls; he aint say sweet biscuit; he aint say popcorn; soft drinks nor macaroni and corn beef, he say the boy does eat yam everyday. I tell myself every since that it gotta be something these Jamaicans eating that got them so fast. But we got fellas and girls bout here who wanta eat sweet biscuit and corn curls and expect to be world class athletes, and I aint only mean runners, I talking bout footballers and cricketers too.
Sometimes I at football or cricket and you would see a fella run behind a ball and look good doing it. The next time he start to run he running like a invisible hand got he pulling back, and you would hear somebody who also watching grumble and say, Man that boy hungry.
Them ain’t mean that he literally hungry, what them mean is that he aint eating proper foods, cause earlier in the day he would have been seen eating a small pack o sweet biscuits and a bottle o red sweet water, and if you wanta make it at the highest level that aint gine work. Fellas gotta learn to eat some cassava, breadfruit, edda and yam. Them gotta drink some good goat head soup and take lil shark oil in between. Don’t laugh. What got me, though, is after Usain Bolt’s phenomenal achievement, the president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge criticised him for showing a lack of respect to the other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters. The man said, I have no problem with him doing a show, I think he should show more respect for his competitors and shake hands, give a tap on the shoulder to the other ones immediately after the finish and not make gestures like the one he made in the 100 meters.
Well forgive me for cheupsing, but that seems to be lil nit-pickish. That boy beat them by such a big distance that he couldda gone out and eat yams and when he come back them still didnt gine cross the finish line. The boy just break two world records, he win two gold medals, he became the first man since Carl Lewis to win both the 100 and 200 at an Olympic Games, he became the first male athlete from the Caribbean to win the 100 metre gold since 1976, and somebody gine criticise him for not giving a tap on the shoulders to the other athletes. It wasn’t him to congratulate them, it was them to congratulate him. But I know how these things does go, them got people who like to find fault and look for any lil negative thing to muddy up the water when them see we celebrating. I gone before I say the wrong thing, see ya.
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I love the face-lift!! Colours: awesome.
