The Betty Black Blog

I’m pretty sure that there are very few Jamaicans, at home or in the wider diaspora, still unaware of the amazing Newton Marshall’s running of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.

In 1988, the World scratched it’s head in wonder. A Jamaican bobsled team in the Winter Olympics? But it doesn’t snow in Jamaica! The original team of four became the stuff of legend; there was even a Disney movie, Cool Runnings, about them. We’ve seen successive bobsled teams over the years. Since 2007 we’ve also [...]

We all watched in utter amazement last February when our very own Dogsled Team, driven by the smiling Newton Marshall, took part in the Yukon Quest, a thousand mile journey in -30ºF temperatures between Fairbanks, Alaska and Whitehorse in the Yukon. To the World’s amazement (but not ours) our team came in at 13th place. [...]

Everyone is probably aware that our Lightening Bolt broke his own records in the recent World Championships: the 100m with 9.58 and the 200m with 19.19. Overall we took home 7 Gold, 4 Silver and 2 Bronze to end up just below the USA in total medal count. In the 2008 Olympics we sent a [...]