toyracer wrote:The JAAA should be ashamed of what is happening at its ticket office. People that were in line before it opened were told that season tickets (a ticket for all four days) were sold out by the time they got to the window...and I'm talking about a line that had less than twenty people in it. Similarly, when people further back in the line (50 - 100) reached to the window they were told that the Grandstand was all sold out. Then in the middle of all of that, a man drives up, walks past the line around to the back of the booth and exits a few minutes later clutching forty-five tickets in his hand. Forty-five. A call to the JAAA head office to complain received the cryptic explanation that some tickets were "pre-booked". Note that tickets were not officially on sale until this morning at 9:00am. The young lady when questioned about the "pre-booked" tickets quickly muttered an excuse and hung up the phone, perhaps realizing that she had let something slip she really shouldn't have mentioned.
Not good JAAA, not good at all.
Hey, you are leaving out the part where you incited the angry mob to beat the poor bastard and dibby up the tickets amongst yourselves. How else did you know he had forty five tickets?
J2thaD wrote:The year that Powell was out injured yes. And it was actually a championship final, that Powell would have probably won had he not been injured.
But this is the sport of Track & Field right, where the ability to train to peak form, maintain fitness represents 90% of the game and only 10% seen between the start and the Finish line....its the same sport right?
J2thaD wrote: There was no Gay, or Bolt in the race to make him choke. It was Powell's type of lineup.
He couldn't go get them and force them to race him, they never brought themselves there, the sport is about bringing yourself to the start and see it through to the finish line...you race who you see.
J2thaD wrote:The year that Powell was out injured yes. And it was actually a championship final, that Powell would have probably won had he not been injured.
But this is the sport of Track & Field right, where the ability to train to peak form, maintain fitness represents 90% of the game and only 10% seen between the start and the Finish line....its the same sport right?
J2thaD wrote: There was no Gay, or Bolt in the race to make him choke. It was Powell's type of lineup.
He couldn't go get them and force them to race him, they never brought themselves there, the sport is about bringing yourself to the start and see it through to the finish line...you race who you see.
So can I assume you are picking Blake to beat Powell this weekend?
toyracer wrote:The JAAA should be ashamed of what is happening at its ticket office. People that were in line before it opened were told that season tickets (a ticket for all four days) were sold out by the time they got to the window...and I'm talking about a line that had less than twenty people in it. Similarly, when people further back in the line (50 - 100) reached to the window they were told that the Grandstand was all sold out. Then in the middle of all of that, a man drives up, walks past the line around to the back of the booth and exits a few minutes later clutching forty-five tickets in his hand. Forty-five. A call to the JAAA head office to complain received the cryptic explanation that some tickets were "pre-booked". Note that tickets were not officially on sale until this morning at 9:00am. The young lady when questioned about the "pre-booked" tickets quickly muttered an excuse and hung up the phone, perhaps realizing that she had let something slip she really shouldn't have mentioned.
Not good JAAA, not good at all.
I saw that on TVJ news last night. It was utter chaos. That "underground" booking system only known to "some people" was also mentioned on the news. Pure slackness.
preston wrote:jazz, you're not seriously trying to compare what happened in 2008 to what can happen in 2012? 2012 doesn't have the talent discrepancy that 2008 had. Bolt and Powell will be forced to run, as will Blake, Carter, and Frater or whoever else makes that final.
I thought they would run in 2008, but I was wrong. Americans run hard to the finish line in the Olympic Trials regardless of how dominant they are.
Does it really matter how Bolt runs as long as he wins?
Dave wrote:I still maintain that the Jamaican OT and the US OT may be more interesting to watch than the OG itself(prior to the Olympic final).
Only a person who only cares about the sprints would agree this statement. The U.S. Trials lags behind the Olympics because of the women's field events and the men's javelin, discus and hammer, but the Jamaican trials are weak in everything except the sprints, the long jump the women's middle distance and maybe the decathlon. Do the Jamaican Trials even have a women's pole vault or javelin throw?
Fortunately, 95% of the posters on this board only care about the sprints.
Dave wrote:I still maintain that the Jamaican OT and the US OT may be more interesting to watch than the OG itself(prior to the Olympic final).
Only a person who only cares about the sprints would agree this statement. The U.S. Trials lags behind the Olympics because of the women's field events and the men's javelin, discus and hammer, but the Jamaican trials are weak in everything except the sprints, the long jump the women's middle distance and maybe the decathlon. Do the Jamaican Trials even have a women's pole vault or javelin throw?
Fortunately, 95% of the posters on this board only care about the sprints.
jamaica50 wrote:Fortunately, 95% of the posters on this board only care about the sprints.
When was the name of the Track & Field News Current Events message board changed to the JAMAICAN Track & Field News Current Events message board? I must be out of the loop.
jamaica50 wrote:Fortunately, 95% of the posters on this board only care about the sprints.
When was the name of the Track & Field News Current Events message board changed to the JAMAICAN Track & Field News Current Events message board? I must be out of the loop.
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. It's the JAMAICAN Short Sprints News Current Events message board.
jamaica50 wrote: Does it really matter how Bolt runs as long as he wins?
Yes it does...the world esp. his competitors will be watching to see any flaws or weakness that they can exploit...he needs to send a BIG message to especially the mouthy Gatlin to zip him up
toyracer wrote:The JAAA should be ashamed of what is happening at its ticket office. People that were in line before it opened were told that season tickets (a ticket for all four days) were sold out by the time they got to the window...and I'm talking about a line that had less than twenty people in it. Similarly, when people further back in the line (50 - 100) reached to the window they were told that the Grandstand was all sold out. Then in the middle of all of that, a man drives up, walks past the line around to the back of the booth and exits a few minutes later clutching forty-five tickets in his hand. Forty-five. A call to the JAAA head office to complain received the cryptic explanation that some tickets were "pre-booked". Note that tickets were not officially on sale until this morning at 9:00am. The young lady when questioned about the "pre-booked" tickets quickly muttered an excuse and hung up the phone, perhaps realizing that she had let something slip she really shouldn't have mentioned.
Not good JAAA, not good at all.
I saw that on TVJ news last night. It was utter chaos. That "underground" booking system only known to "some people" was also mentioned on the news. Pure slackness.
JWiz seems to think I was making the whole thing up. There was a report in yesterday's Star newspaper that the third person in line, who had waited 3.5 hours for the booth to open, couldn't get season tickets; corroborating what I had written. It has emerged that the season tickets were never available to the general public at any cost and were all allocated (and most dispensed) last week through private arrangement with the JAAA.
Link to watch live coverage of the Jamaica Olympic Trials which begins Thursday morning. This link is subscription based. Just got confirmation that there will be no "free" live streaming via Sportmax this year due to a contractual dispute.
Cost is US$7.99 per day for Friday, Saturday and Sunday(2.99 for Thursday) or US$15.99 for all 4 days. All coverage will be presented live. Video on demand will be available after the meet.Coverage can be viewed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or web enabled TV.
JAAA/Supreme Ventures Ltd. 2012 Jamaica National Senior Championships – Order Of Events
All times listed are Jamaica time which is one hour behind US EDT.
Day 1 – Thursday, June 28, 2012
Afternoon – Field Events 5:30 pm Javelin Men Final
Morning – Track Events 9:30 am 400M Hurdles Women Heats 9:45 am 400M Hurdles Men Heats 10:00 am 100M Men Heats
Afternoon – Track Events 6:05 pm 400M Women Heats 6:20 pm 400M Men Heats 6:45 pm PRESENTATION 6:50 pm 100M Women Heats 7:15 pm 100M Men Quarter Finals
Day 2 – Friday, June 29, 2012
Afternoon – Field Events 4:00 pm High Jump Heptathlon Final 5:00 pm Triple Jump Men Final 5:30 pm Discuss Women Final 6:00 pm Shot Put Heptathlon Final 7:00 pm Long Jump Women Final
Afternoon – Track Events 3:00 pm 100M Hurdles Heptathlon Final 5:30 pm 100M Men Masters Final 5:40 pm 400M Men Masters Final 6:00 pm OFFICAL OPENING CEREMONY 6:55 pm PRESENTATION 7:00 pm 800M Men Heats 7:15 pm 100M Women Semi-Finals 7:25 pm 100M Men Semi-Finals 7:30 pm PRESENTATION 7:35 pm 5000M Men Final 8:00 pm PRESENTATION 8:20 pm 400M Hurdles Women Final 8:30 pm 400M Hurdles Men Final 8:35 pm PRESENTATION 8:40 pm 1500M Women Final 8:50 pm 1500M Men Final 8:55 pm PRESENTATION 9:00 pm 200M Heptathlon Final 9:05 pm PRESENTATIONS 9:15pm 100M Women Final 9:20 pm PRESENTATIONS 9:25pm 100M Men Final 9:30 pm PRESENTATIONS
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Day 3 – Saturday, June 30, 2012 Morning – Fields Events 9:30 am Hammer Women Final 10:00 am Hammer Men Final
Afternoon – Fields Events 3:00 pm Long Jump Heptathlon Final 5:00 pm Shot Put Women Final 5:00 pm Javelin Heptathlon Final 5:15 pm Long Jump Men Final 5:30pm High Jump Men Final 6:30pm Discus Men Final
Morming – Track Events 9:00 am 200M Men Heats Afternoon – Track Events 6:20 pm PRESENTATIONS 6:30 pm 110m Hurdles Men Semi-Finals 6:55 pm 3000M Steeple Men Final 7:15 pm 400M Women Semi-Finals 7:25 pm 400M Men Semi-Finals 7:35 pm PRESENTATION 7:40 pm 3000M Steeple Women Final 7:55 pm PRESENTATIONS 8:05 pm 800M Women Final 8:10 pm 800M Men Final 8:15 pm 800M Heptathlon Final 8:20 pm PRESENTATIONS 8:25 pm 200M Women Semi-Finals 8:35 pm 200M Men Semi-Finals 8:40 pm PRESENTATIONS 8:45 pm 110M Hurdles Men Final 8:50 pm PRESENTATION
Day 4 – Sunday, July 1, 2012 Afternoon – Field Events 4:00 pm Pole Vault Men Final 5:00 pm Javelin Women Final 5:00 pm High Jump Women Final 5:30 pm Triple Jump Women Final 5:30 pm Shot Put Men Final
Afternoon – Track Events 5:00 pm 100M Hurdles Women Semi-Finals 5:20 pm 10000M Men Final 6:05 pm 400M Women Final 6:15 pm 400M Men Final 6:25 pm PRESENTATIONS 6:45 pm 100M Hurdles Women Final 7:00 pm PRESENTATIONS 7:15 pm 200M Women Final 7:20 pm PRESENTATIONS 7:30 pm 200M Men Final 7:35 pm PRESENTATION
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running4life wrote:The live streaming have always been free, since when they charging?
Sportmax was scheduled to stream the meet for free.However, a contractual dispute forced it to abandon its plans.
Be happy at least you can still watch the entire meet live.
Damn this suck sucks,I will be at work most of the time. Damn I guess I will just wait for youtube. Thanks for teh info tho
If it was free, wouldn't you still be at work and thus wouldn't be able to watch?
Well yea but I will be working my American friends really wanted to watch it.I am not going to pay for somthing that I will not be able to watch fully.I will be very busy at work.At lease if it was free I would be able to peak in and out while working. I really wanted to see what shape VCB is in, I don't really care about the others NO SHADE LOL.
She is entered in both the 100 and 200m. She ran both at the 2008 trials as well. She ran 22.15 in the 2008 trials but that was only good enough for 4th place. The race was that competitive.
