Oh wow, Jamaica!

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

Those are for the three gold medals won by Usain Bolt and Melaine Walker in the 29th Olympics games in Beijing.

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Those are for the Olympic records set by Usain and Melaine in Beijing.

Wow! Wow!

Those are for the world records set by Usain Bolt.

And WOW!!!

This for the Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart who executed a sweep of the women's 100m in Beijing.

[Please note that the sweep was a performance delivered for all the Jamaican women who have been denied their correct colour medals in Olympic games that have passed. Juliet Cuthbert, Grace Jackson, Merlene Ottey et al have suffered the close, ridiculous calls, and now that the subsidies have been removed and the playing field is level, the time has come for the real sprint capital of the world to rewrite the record books and say quite loudly and clearly "To de world!" and add to that Ms Kitty's punctuation "to de flippin' world!"]

More wows

And with the women's 200-metre final today, the relays to come, and the decathalon to be completed, there will be more wows to write about next week, if my heart survives the excitement.

What an Olympics this has been! I write before the women's 200 final - where I pray for another sweep and if you are reading this column, the results of that race must be known.

I have all but ceased my email- communications until after Jamaica wins the Olympics. I expressed that sentiment to my family before the games started and I know they thought that I was jesting, but I was not.

I watched our national trials in June and it was very clear that if everyone remained fit [and they did] the world was going to have to stand up and pay attention to what Jamaican lovers of track and field have known for years: our athletes are awesome.

Jamaicans are blessed with a talent, and we have been further blessed with quality high-school coaches who know how to hone this talent. It is not idleness that sees just over 100,000 people gather over five days at our national stadium to watch our juniors perform every year - it is because it is a high-quality meet.

As we waited for the start of the women's 400m-hurdles final after Usain's shock-and-awe performance in the men's 200m final, where he broke Michael Johnson's world and Olympic record, I heard a man say: "Everything going right fi Jamaica, a bet you we find oil." I looked at him and said, 'We have found oil and we have always had it, in the raw talent of our people. The things that cannot be measured in weight and length, the things where size does not matter is where we can and will rule the world.'

It is great to be Jamaican. Isn't it?

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