Briana Williams of Jamaica, Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica and Shericka
Jackson of Jamaica celebrate after winning gold in the Women’s 4 x 100m Relay Final at the Olympic Stadium,
Tokyo, Japan on Aug. 6, 2021. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
Caribbean L 30 ife, AUGUST 13-19, 2021
By Azad Ali
The Caribbean Premier League
(CPL) team Zouks is changing its
name to the Kings.
The team is owned by KPH Dream
Cricket Private Limited which also
runs the Punjab Kings franchise at
the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The St. Lucia Kings will share
branding and other assets with their
colleagues at the IPL as the ownership
team moves to cement ties
between the two brands.
By Azad Ali
The University of the West Indies
(UWI) has congratulated alumnus,
Jamaican athlete, Hansle Parchment
on winning gold in the men’s 110-
meter hurdles at the Tokyo 2020
Olympic Games.
Parchment clocked 13.05 seconds
in the athletics event last week to
take the Olympic title.
The UWI Mona Campus alumnus
now has two Olympic medals, following
his bronze win at the London
Olympics, the university said in a
statement.
He was also a silver medallist from
the 2105 World Championships in
Beijing, China.
In 2017 Parchment graduated
from the UWI Mona Campus, with
a degree in psychology and is among
a contingent of students, alumni,
coaches and sport medical support
staff representing both their countries
and the regional university in
Olympics.
Gold medallist, Hansle Parchment
of Jamaica poses on the podium
with a gold medal for winning the
Men’s 110m Hurdles in the Tokyo
2020 Olympics. REUTERS/Dylan
Martinez
T20 champs
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to nine overs a side but when play
resumed rain arrived once again and
the umpires finally called off the play
20 minutes later.
The first match in Barbados also
ended in no result before Pakistan won
the second game in Guyana by seven
runs. But rain dominated the remaining
two games in Guyana with the
third lasting only 1.2 overs.
The teams will now play in a two-
Test series in Jamaica starting Aug.
12.
squad, Simmons told commentators
Ian Bishop and Curtly Ambrose during
the post match interview.
The half century was Gayle’s first
in Twenty20 for the West Indies since
2016 and during it, he became the
first man to score 14,000 runs in
Twenty20 cricket.
Gayle said his focus was the World
Cup itself.
Simmons declared that in the case
of Gayle his role to the West Indies
team went what he did on the field.
CMC said.
It said all but one of the medals won
by this group of countries came in
athletics.
Gold medal winners Elaine Thompson
Herah and Hansle Parchment of
Jamaica, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Steven
Gardiner of the Bahamas, along
with Puerto Rican Jasmin Camacho-
Quinn, all made history, according
to CMC.
It said Thompson-Herah became
the first to complete a 100-200 metres
“double-double”, and Parchment made
Jamaica the first country other than
the United States, to win the 110
metres hurdles in successive Olympic
Games.
That feat was last accomplished by
the USA in 1988, when Roger Kingdom
retained the title he won in 1984,
CMC said.
“Miller-Uibo and Gardiner gave the
Bahamas the honor of being the first
Caribbean country to win both 400
meters gold medals in the same Games
since 1984,” it said.
Camacho-Quinn is Puerto Rico’s
first Olympic champion in athletics,
CMC said.
“Jamaica’s medal haul of four gold,
one silver and four bronze earned
Thompson-Herah and her compatriot’s
fifth place on the athletics medal
table, behind the United States, Italy,
Kenya and Poland,” it said, stating
that the USA won seven gold, 12 silver
and seven bronze medals.
“There are no words to describe
what you have achieved,” CMC qyoted
Tokyo 2020 president, Seiko Hashimoto,
as saying. “You have accepted what
seemed unimaginable, understood
what had to be done, and through
hard work and perseverance overcome
unbelievable challenges.”
“For the first time since the pandemic
began, the entire world came
together,” said International Olympic
Committee President, Thomas Bach.
“Nobody has ever organized a postponed
Games before.”
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West Indies batsman Chris Gayle.
REUTERS/David Gray, fi le
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CARIBBEAN OLYMPIANS
Chris Gayle
UWI lauds Jamaican hurdler
Olympic gold medal win
Zouks now St.
Lucia ‘Kings’