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...Ivor Conolley, who owns The Last Resort, a bed-and-breakfast inn near Lilly's restaurant in Trelawny, "The whole country feels right now as if good things are happening to us for a change." In cities like Kingston, in fact, seemingly everyone is wearing yellow, the color of Jamaica's athletic uniform, to work and draping the national flag on their cars, says Beckford. She hopes the wave of enthusiasm will prompt Jamaican businesses to invest more in sports sponsorship, especially the construction of more modern athletic facilities...
...self-styled "roughneck" singers as role models, and help reduce the country's horrific levels of violent crime. "These athletes can speak to the young people in our more troubled communities, especially since many of them come from those communities," says Jamaican sports writer Carole Beckford, author of Keeping Jamaica's Sport on Track. "We can't wait for them to come home as a result...
...risky proposition, especially in developing countries. But the Fraser family offers the kind of grassroots anti-crime publicity the Jamaican government needs more of, says Mark Shields, deputy federal police commissioner. "It has a positive effect on bringing the crime rate down. This is a great opportunity to sell Jamaica in the positive light it deserves...
...national youth track-and-field championships, held each year around Easter, draw more than 35,000 people for four days to Kingston's National Stadium, the largest crowd for any youth athletics event anywhere in the world. "The high school competition is fierce," says Beckford, who adds that while Jamaica's training facilities might not be First World - Fraser is part of an elite group that practices on a run-down track of grass and tar - its coaches are top flight and its athletes often share a working-class bond. Though Bolt is known for his fun-loving personal style...
...Still, despite the clean record of the latest generation of sprinters, Jamaica has had to contend with a cloud of suspicion because its testing regimen is considered less than stringent. Jamaican health officials insist they're on a vigilant watch for performance enhancing drugs, and in recent years they have nabbed a few cheaters, including two who'd been training at U.S. universities. But while groups like the World Anti-Doping Agency have conceded there is little proof of drug-use among Jamaican sprinters, the country has refused to join the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization, which would...