media_artricles :: 2015

Glitter without gold

For most of us, the IAAF World Athletics Championships was like a general election: you either won or lost. Yes, there's the consolation of silver and bronze medals for those who fall just short of the top prize, but it meant you were still beaten on the big occasion.

And when you've got a fellow Caribbean nation like Jamaica sharing top spot in the overall gold medal tally with Kenya (seven apiece), it seems like an act of desperate public relations to suggest there was much to celebrate in the performances of a Trinidad and Tobago contingent that returns from Beijing without a single gold in their possession.

In fact, some may want to argue that we've gone backwards from the previous World Championships in Moscow, where Jehue Gordon's triumph in the men's 400-metre hurdles, coming as it did a year after Keshorn Walcott's out-of-the-blue success in the men's javelin at the London 2012 Olympic Games, signalled the continuing rise of the twin-island state on the global sporting stage.

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