ROAD TO CHAMPS: The Usain Bolt effect

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The lasting image from the 2022 Carfita Games under-20 100 metres boys final at the National Stadium was silver medallist, Kingston College’s Bouwahjgie Nkrumie standing with his spikes in hand listing to sprinting legend Usain Bolt imparting his guidance and feedback.
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[@michaelstewart6332]

Stay strong youth jamaican love you!!!

[@prestonmatthews725]

Nkrumie love how you summed it up. Track and field is a tough sport and I love how you respect and lead your charges. All the best!

[@dheerajthakur9501]

Thanks sir 🙏

[@alexjordanofficial1116]

What a beauty!❤🎉

[@JayDublow]

Well, let di games begin!

[@lanettewilliams7122]

Champs is going to be hot!!!

[@prestonmatthews725]

Especially on the girls side. Can’t wait

[@simonemathew4422]

Fortes Forever

[@prestonmatthews725]

The Grenadian sounding like a Jamaican though. Love it!

[@davidscott3726]

Barely see tht .More like a rural Jamaican .He sound too timid.Kingatonians speak colour with a swagg

[@FutureStyles]

He’s from st vincent. Just wearing a Grenadian tee

[@michaelstewart9411]

​@@davidscott3726 is a rural man from Jamaica not a Jamaican?.The statement made was the he soumds like a Jamaican

[@davidscott3726]

@@michaelstewart9411 Yeah but it's a Kingston base school...........

[@GreatDane978]

One thing wid my school enuh, we tek anybody and baptize dem mek dem accept the fortis spirit

[@simonemathew4422]

Lol

[@evsparslay9565]

Same way suh it guh

[@berylhemmings7003]

Run 9.99 who much the secan/ 3d man?

[@drewfortis]

Who come 2nd come 2nd lol -BN

[@Posting7]

Genuine question: why are there Africans at the high school level? I heard KC recruited a bunch of them. Why?

[@chillop98]

Why not ? It's still a school anyway. The opportunity for academic and sporting achievements isn't and shouldn't be limited to us. We shouldn't be selfish ppl, if so the US should question why they grant so many of us scholarships.

[@Posting7]

@@chillop98 I never said it should be limited to us. It was a question 😂

[@manthasviews7215]

These Africans really don't look school age at all 😢😢

[@cash6627]

They are under twenty years old.They attend high school from the age of Twelve years old to seventeen years old. Then after five years they graduate at sixteen or seventeen.Then they spend another two years at the same school,for higher studies. To prepare to take the Caribbean exam as well as the American S.A.T test. Which will allow them to attend college in Jamaica or abroad. I would like you to know that, they have to pass at least eight subjects to stay those extra two years in high school and that is the requirement in the high school in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean. The championship is from ages twelve to twenty years old. One love 🇯🇲

[@chillop98]

Well accept differences, you should see some of these school kids here in the US.