THE JAMAICAN SWEEP

Jamaica now officially has the fastest human beings walking this Earth. On the heels of Bolt's impressive victory yesterday at the Bird's Nest the Jamaican women bolted their way to a sweep of the Olympic 100m women's finals. Shelly-ann Fraser, the seeming underdog, lead the group of her teammates Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart to a gold, silver and silver , clocking an impressive personal best of 10.78s beating out her teammates who both came in at 10.98s after a review of their photo-finish. The last sweep of both Olympic 100m finals occurred in 1912. Further Fraser one in fine style with this being the widest margin of victory in this final since 1988 when Florence Griffith-Joyner set that elusive world record of 10.49s.
Shelly-ann Fraser was most ecstatic telling reporters,

"I can't believe I actually won. Nobody expected me to win, so there was no pressure"

Fraser said it was a great feeling to cross the line to see both her teammates beside her, all recognizing that they has just created history.Before this weekend Jamaica had never won a gold in the 100m finals and now they have taken the top spot for both men and women. Stewart said,

"It's about time, we've been waiting for this, so many great athletes have come so close and we were able to pull it off tonight"

Of course the American's which placed fourth, fifth and last in the 100m final did not take defeat lying down. Team USA appealed the results citing that one of their own, Torrey Edwards had false-started. The appeal was quickly rejected by the International Association of Athletics Federation. The appeal however has resulted in the medal award ceremony being put off till Monday. The Americans also believe that they should at least be awarded a bronze for their efforts, but that also will be a no go. Nothing and noone will steal Jamaica's thunder as they bolt into the rest of the sprint events. All eyes are now on Jamaica as the 200m sprint and 4x100 relays get underway with the Jamaican men and women teams expected to medal and possibly take home the gold!!!
PANOPTIC-ENT SALUTES SHELLY-ANN, SHERONE & KERRON!!!

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