I just love Thea's handling of the questions, very intelligent young lady. Congratulations, Thea, on getting Dominica our very first Olympic/ gold medal!
Congratulations to Ms LaFond and Dominica 🇩🇲from your African American sister in the USA. I visited Dominica and it is an absolutely beautiful island with beautiful people. Congratulations also due to Ms Moore and Ms Richetts. I love that Ms Lafond is using this opportunity address the issue that many nations are facing. That is their athletes can't train in their countries. The reasons for this are many.
Congratulations to everyone on this panel such history and greatness its amazing for the Caribbean. I find that some of the media questions are a bit strange. I must say these Queen's handled it well. Congratulations.
🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲 Thea we love you... been crying tears of joy since Saturday!!! Girl you did your biggest one yet. We will cherish you forever 🎉🎉🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲
In March, triple jumper Thea LaFond was the only representative of her tiny Caribbean nation, Dominica, at world indoors. She won the gold medal. Now at the Paris Olympics, LaFond is the only woman from her country competing in track and field. Again, she won gold. Only it was more than gold. It was the very first Olympic medal for Dominica. “My country’s name is Dominica (dah-min-EE-ka). We’re not Dominican Republic, so it’s pronounced differently,” LaFond said. “We are about roughly 70,000 people. Not 7 million. Not 70 million. Seventy thousand. And it is a gorgeous, gorgeous gem in the Caribbean near to Martinique and Guadeloupe. … Our neighbors also include St. Lucia, Barbados and, further south, Trinidad and Tobago. Our primary language is English. And now they have a gold medal.”
Holy moly I want to be her when I grow up 😂 I love everything about her, from the way she’s insanely athletic, articulate, positive, radiating excellence overall, love for her husband - she’s definitely an amazing role model
We are waiting in Dominica to celebrate you 🎊✨, you represented Dominica very well. We love u 🥰🥰 social media is lighted up with ur achievement 🎉. I stayed up all night celebrating, Dominicans will be having one big party 🎉🎈🎉🎈🎊🎉🎉🎈 as we welcome u. We are waiting for you to come on home. Sorry I had to let in on the secret 😊, we are having one big party and u know how we do it.🎉🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I was thinking the same thing. But Google shows her k-12 is USA and College is University of Maryland. I doubt she has trained a millisecond on that land.
Well done. She sounds like a lovely person! Gold for Dominica 🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲
From St Lucia with love 🇱🇨🇱🇨
We are very proud of you, you make Dominica 🇩🇲 happy 🎉🎉
I just love Thea's handling of the questions, very intelligent young lady. Congratulations, Thea, on getting Dominica our very first Olympic/ gold medal!
Congratulations to Ms LaFond and Dominica 🇩🇲from your African American sister in the USA. I visited Dominica and it is an absolutely beautiful island with beautiful people. Congratulations also due to Ms Moore and Ms Richetts. I love that Ms Lafond is using this opportunity address the issue that many nations are facing. That is their athletes can't train in their countries. The reasons for this are many.
I am so proud to see my flag wining gold 🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲💕💕💕🍾🍾🏆
Thea is a class act! Fiercely intelligent and an assertive communicator. Super confident!
Congrats my girl,you made All Dominican very proud,thank you,❤️we Love you
Congratulations from Barbados 🎉🎉🎉
I just love Thea’s personality ❤️
Being a new Dominican citizen because of my father (Kalingo native), I am so proud of my 2nd home. Let's go 767!!!
We are proud!!! You worked hard and it paid off❤
Congratulations to everyone on this panel such history and greatness its amazing for the Caribbean. I find that some of the media questions are a bit strange. I must say these Queen's handled it well. Congratulations.
🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲 Thea we love you... been crying tears of joy since Saturday!!! Girl you did your biggest one yet. We will cherish you forever 🎉🎉🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲
Thea is amazingly out going and I love it.
Congrats to Dominica 💕❤️💯👍🏾👏🏾
Congrats!! 🎉 A first for all! Congrats Dominica!
🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲 Proud of you Thea!!!
🎉 Awesome ! Thea you make us proud 🎉🎉
🇩🇲🇩🇲bring home the gold🇩🇲🇩🇲
Thank you, Thea Lafond. Great
Congrat to all the winners Thea🇩🇲, Ricketts🇯🇲 and my girl Jasmine reppin from the DFW 🇺🇸🇨🇱
In March, triple jumper Thea LaFond was the only representative of her tiny Caribbean nation, Dominica, at world indoors. She won the gold medal. Now at the Paris Olympics, LaFond is the only woman from her country competing in track and field. Again, she won gold. Only it was more than gold. It was the very first Olympic medal for Dominica. “My country’s name is Dominica (dah-min-EE-ka). We’re not Dominican Republic, so it’s pronounced differently,” LaFond said. “We are about roughly 70,000 people. Not 7 million. Not 70 million. Seventy thousand. And it is a gorgeous, gorgeous gem in the Caribbean near to Martinique and Guadeloupe. … Our neighbors also include St. Lucia, Barbados and, further south, Trinidad and Tobago. Our primary language is English. And now they have a gold medal.”
Well spoken and articulate Ms.LaFond
Congratulations!
Congratulations triple-jump Olympic medalists! I’m so happy for you! You worked hard and deserve to be on the podium. God bless you all🙏🏾🌹❤️
Congratulations from Brazil! 🎉🎉🎉
We are proudddddd!!!🎉❤🇩🇲
We are extremely PROUDDD Thea....
Well done Thea. Good Gold for Dominica, the first Olympic Gold medal won for Dominica
We are proud of you...can wait to here our national anthem . Congratulation.
Holy moly I want to be her when I grow up 😂 I love everything about her, from the way she’s insanely athletic, articulate, positive, radiating excellence overall, love for her husband - she’s definitely an amazing role model
Very intelligent 👌
We are waiting in Dominica to celebrate you 🎊✨, you represented Dominica very well. We love u 🥰🥰 social media is lighted up with ur achievement 🎉. I stayed up all night celebrating, Dominicans will be having one big party 🎉🎈🎉🎈🎊🎉🎉🎈 as we welcome u. We are waiting for you to come on home. Sorry I had to let in on the secret 😊, we are having one big party and u know how we do it.🎉🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Just LOVE her!
Congratulations
That is it 🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲
767 congratulations 🎊
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Why did she take the Jamaican girls Powerade?
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Wake wake jaja
Of course had Yulimar Rojas not been injured ...! Her world record she set in 2022 is 15.74 meters.
Well it's Thea Lafond's time not for yulimar😂😂😂😂
WE WINNING NOW YAHHHH 😂😂😂😂 WE WONNNN THEY PUT HER FACE ON THE BUILD BOARD BY ST MARTINS SECONDORY AND PRIMARY SCHOOLOLL
She has lost her local accent.
I was thinking the same thing. But Google shows her k-12 is USA and College is University of Maryland.
I doubt she has trained a millisecond on that land.
@@4hundredto2fifty you are right. There are no facilities on the island. The Government has no money or inclination to do anything for sports.
That first journalist is an embarrassment...change career and look at a dictionary or google
We love u hun thank u for repping me country ❤
Dom-in-ee-ka. Dominica, Yeah
Right! So happy she corrected the pronunciation.
Exactly💯. I was cringing when they kept mispronouncing it. Im glad she corrected them