Real Sports Talk
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Way too early Paris 2024 Athletics predictions- Part 2
For this set of predictions, I will be focusing on the sprint and one lap hurdles events for males and females at next year’s Olympics games. Rasheed Broadbell retakes the 110m hurdles crown for Jamaica: Retaking the gold medal won by Omar Mcleod in 2016. This prediction isn’t too much of a hot take, as…
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The Burnout of young football prodigies
With the recent long term injury to budding star Gavi of Barcelona, an alarming trend of extensive and continuous injuries to young footballers continues to rise. This seems especially prevalent in some of the larger and more celebrated clubs in the global game, who for one reason or another, have fallen from their perches and…
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Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw: Jamaica’s greatest ever footballer?
Khadija Shaw became the first Jamaican footballer, male or female, to be nominated for the Ballon d’or in 2023, and ended up finishing 24th out of 30 finalists. This award is given to the best footballer in the world every year, and as such represents the pinnacle of the sport, at least individually. She also…
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The problem with Canada’s male soccer
The development of Men’s Soccer in Canada took a harsh blow last night, as they lost 2-3 at home to Jamaica in a decisive Nations League Quarter Final. Suggestions of it being one of the worst or most embarrassing nights in the program’s history however are vastly overblown. It was not that long ago that…
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In defense of Pochettino and Ten Hag
Despite the respective rocky starts to their careers at their new clubs, both Chelsea and Manchester United need to exercise patience with their new managers. The manager conveyer belt at both clubs must be put to a halt if they want to have any semblance of stability, and return to their former glory. Chelsea in…
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The ‘Unbreakable’ women’s records of the 80s
The longest standing individual track world records in athletics are all in female events, with the oldest mainstream men’s event track record being the men’s 1500m, which was set in 1998, by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco. Meanwhile, quite a few female world records have stood since the 80s. These are: the 100m and 200m…
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What has happened to German football?
German football has hit an all time low this weekend. Today, coach Hansi Flick became the first German head coach to ever be sacked. He amassed 12 wins in 25 games, and the relative minnows of Oman, Peru and Costa Rica are the only teams they have beaten in the past year. This coupled with…
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Way too early Paris 2024 Athletics predictions- Part 1
With the recent conclusion of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, and there being some key figures either missing or underperforming, I figured it was a good time to write the first entry of my early predictions for what will happen at next year’s marquee athletic meet.
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Noah Lyles and the meaning of a “World Champion”
In his press conference after winning his third straight 200m world title, Noah Lyles appeared to take a “shot” at the NBA, saying “World Champion of what? The United States?”, in reference to the variety in opposition one has to face when winning the NBA title as opposed to a world championship title in athletics.…
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The Case of Jamaican sprinting in 2023
We are now well and truly underway in the 2023 track and field season, with various national trials for the upcoming World Championships in Budapest in August, commencing in a couple weeks. By this time we have had several meets at various levels, ranging from the small track club invitational to the Diamond League level,…
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Gold Cup 2023
The 2023 CONCACAF Gold cup gets underway this Friday with the defending champions the USA looking to add to their summer haul of trophies having already triumphed in the nations league with an impressive 2-0 win over Canada. However, with the recent conclusion of the major European leagues, and then the subsequent 4 team nations…