‘I wanted to put on my spikes and go out there and run with those girls’
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — Veteran sprinter Pauline Davis-Thompson has always been very passionate when it comes down to expressing her views on the sport of track and field.
Bahamas ends Rio Olympics on the podium
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil: The team of Alonzo Russell, Michael Mathieu, Steven Gardiner and Chris 'Fireman' Brown held on to nip Belgium for the bronze medal behind the United States' gold and Jamaica's silver in the final of the men's 4 x 400 metre relay on Saturday night.
Men's relay team book place in final
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil: The team of Alonzo Russell, Christopher Brown, Steven Gardiner, all back after their appearances in the 400 metres, along with Stephen Newbold, booked their lane in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay final and assured the Bahamas of a chance to defend their title at the 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday night.
National record, but no qualification for women's relay team
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil: In the Bahamas' first relay appearance in the Olympic Games, the team of Lanece Clarke, Anthonique Strachan, Carmiesha Cox and Christine Amertil ran a national record, but it wasn't fast enough to get them into the final of the women's 4 x 400 metre relay.
Olympic Games: Men's relay team qualify for final, then move up to second after Great Britain disqualified
Friday in Rio.
‘Golden Knights’ to defend their Olympic title without Ramon
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — Chris ‘Fireman’ Brown likes Team Bahamas’ chances of repeating as champions of the men’s 4x400 metre relay. The elderstatesman feels they have assembled a quality group of quarter-milers to go out and get the job done.
‘Our men, women 4x4 teams had their final shake-outs’
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — With the city celebrating a holiday to support the 2016 Olympic Games, Team Bahamas was in preparation mode on a day off yesterday to get ready for the final two events over the next two days - the always exciting men and women 4 x 400m relays.
In fith Olympics, Amertil gets set for 4x4 relay
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — This is the fifth Olympic appearance for quarter-miler Christine Amertil and after running on the 4 x 100 metre team in London, England four years ago, for the first time she will get to run in a women’s 4 x 400 metre relay when the preliminaries take place at the Olympic Stadium tonight.
THE FINISH LINE: ‘A snippet of some of my most memorable experiences here’
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — Just like that, it’s down to the final two days of competition at the 2016 Olympic Games. Can’t believe that time has passed by that quickly.
Donald Thomas: ‘I walk away kind of disappointed’
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — Donald Thomas came into the 2016 Olympic Games with one goal on his mind - to finally win the one medal that has eluded him.
Dee Dee Trotter defends Shaunae’s dip at line
SINCE Shaunae Miller’s incredible victory in the Rio 2016 Olympics women’s 400m, several negatives have flooded social media.
Maybelene Miller: ‘We prayed so hard for this’
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — Long before they arrived here for the 2016 Olympic Games, Maybelene Miller said they got a divine intervention that her daughter Shaunae Miller would become the women’s 400 metre champion.
‘Team Bahamas has underperformed in Rio’
IT was back in May, more specifically a string of days running from the end of May into the start of June when I first thought to myself that the development of local sports and athletes were suffering as a result of limited funding.
‘Golden Girl’ Pauline: It was an honour to present gold medal
RIO de Janeiro, Brazil — From one Olympic champion to another, IAAF Councilwoman Pauline Davis-Thompson said it was an honour to present the medal to Bahamian women’s 400 metre champion Shaunae Miller during the presentation in the Olympic stadium on Tuesday night.
