Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah poses with her gold medal after winning women’s 100m at the 2020
Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Associated Press/Francisco Seco
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By Nelson A. King
With two World records, two Olympic
records, four Olympic gold medals,
and two Diamond League titles
between them, the North American,
Central American and Caribbean
Athletics Association (NACAC) said
“it’s fair to say that Ryan Crouser
and Elaine Thompson-Herah have
dominated 2021.
“Their performances this year
have seen them named as Athletes of
the Year,” said NACAC on Nov. 8.
It said Crouser owns both World
records, resetting the men’s shot put
standard indoors and out this past
season.
The 28-year-old American champion
also captured the NACAC Indoor
Male Athlete of the Year, which he
followed up with gold at the Tokyo
Olympics and the Diamond League
trophy.
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Sri Lanka’s Charith Asalanka reacts
after he is dismissed by West Indies’
Andre Russell, right. Associated Press/
Kamran Jebreili
Bowled out
By Azad Ali
Sri Lanka ended defending champions
West Indies dream of reaching the semi
finals last week with an empathic 20-run
victory in their last World Cup game at
the Sheik Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Young batsman Charith Asalanka (68)
and Pathum Nissanka (51) toyed with the
seven-man West Indies attack in raising
Sri Lanka’s highest total of 189 for seven
in their final Group 1 game by hitting
powerful half centuries.
In reply, West Indies, who won the toss
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England to
tour WI
By Azad Ali
The schedule for England’s Twenty20
and Test tour of the West Indies in January
and March 2022 was recently released
by Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the England
and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
England will arrive in the Caribbean
to play the first-ever five-match Twenty20
series between the two teams.
All five matches will be played across
a nine-day period from Jan. 22 to Jan.
30, including two consecutive weekends
back-to-back Twenty20 cricket at the Kensington
Oval, Barbados.
Following West Indies’s white-ball tour
of India in February 2022, the West Indies
will welcome England back to the region
for a three-match Test series in March to
compete for the newly created Richards-
Botham Trophy.
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ATHLETE OF
THE YEAR
Thompson-Herah named NACAC top athlete
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