Posted by NEW YORK – Track and field superstar, Usain Bolt, is scheduled to be on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ which airs on NBC Tuesday, September 29. This is just one of the many stops Bolt will make while in New York City.
He will also be featured on morning and evening radio and television stations including the very popular and syndicated Tom Joyner Show, HOT 97 with Funk Master Flex, Syndicated Fox Radio with Dan Patrick and WPIX Morning News on Channel 11, NY.
Bolt, who is in New York for a few days will appear at a few public events in addition to shooting a commercial. He appeared on BET at 106 and Park on Thursday, September 24 where he was joined by USA 400 meters star, Sanya Richards.
Bolt signed autographs on Saturday at the Puma Store in Union Square, Manhattan, after which he attended an event at the Brooklyn College, where scores of Jamaican well wishers came to ask him questions about his scintillating performances in Berlin this past summer.
The event at the Brooklyn College was hosted by Ruderfinn and featured the Jamaica Tourist Board. Ministers of Tourism and Sport, Edmund Bartlett and Olivia Grange were also at the event, which was chaired by Wall Street journalist, Chris Farley.
Bolt and his team in New York are guests of entertainment star Jay Z at the New York vs. Boston baseball play-off series game on Sunday. The 6’5” world record holder who was featured on the cover of Sport Illustrated in August, met with the publishers and stopped by parent company Time Warner Inc where he paid a courtesy call on President Kirk McDonald. While there, the executives of Essence.com met with him.
Bolt returns to Jamaica on Wednesday.
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Carl Lewis is going to overdose. U know he beside himself right now with the red carpet that UB is getting all over the world. Because as u know, Carl Lewis feels that UB is not tested enough, or else they would find something, as every JA athlete is on something. I agree with Carl; snapper, banana, and yam.
I ATTENDED THE SESSION AT THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE AND THE RECEPTION WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD. THE PEOPLE WERE SO ENTHUSED THAT THEY ALMOST MOBBED THE BIG MAN. I WAS A BIT DISAPPOINTED WITH THE “ONE ON ONE.” CHRIS FARLEY OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WAS THE MODERATOR, AND FROM THE SILLY QUESTIONS HE ASKED, IT WAS CLEAR HE KNOWS NOTHING OF TRACK AND FIELD.
I too attended the function at Brooklyn College as a guest. As a former athlete i too was very disappointed with the silly types of questions the moderator Chris Farley posed to Usain. I found the questions trifling and had very little to do with track & field.
However it was very hart warming as a Jamaican to see the wonderful and fantastic reception that Usain received at the function and when the interview was finished he ( Usain ) was literally mugged by the throngs of Jamaicans ( fans) that were also there to support him. I hope that he eventually gets the well deserved and much needed REST that his body needs so that he can start to pepare himself again with the very rigid background training necessary for his up coming 2010 track season. At the function put on by the Jamaica Tourist Board i notice that people like Babsy Grange ( Jamaica’s current minister of sports ) and Ed Bartlett ( Jamaica’s current minister of Tourism ) were also there. I hope that them and the government of Jamaica do the right thing by the athletes and regarding Jamaican athletics as a whole by not just jumping on the train of Usain’s and the other Jamaican athletes International success achieved in Beijing and Berlin but that the government INVEST in a meaningful way in Jamaican athletics by ensuring that the current warm up and training track at the stadium east and also the track inside of the stadium which is currently in a state of dis-repair be fixed and be re-done and complete in time for the athletes are able to train and compete on said tracks as they ought to. I really don’t see why after the athletes have done thier part to bring the type of glory and positive recognition to Jamaica that they did; that there should be a problem for the powers that be including the Jamaican government that there is a PROBLEM that the necessary funds or capital can’t seem to be found to fix the tracks in a timely way. There should not be any problems at all if the necessary sourcing was done in a correct, sincere and diligent way and i am sure that there are options regarding sourcing be it from the government or any combination of private sectors, sponsors, the IAAF etc. they all owe and should give back something to Jamaican Athletics and to the athletes. They ( the powers that be including the government adn JAAA etc ) should also be looking for viable ways to implement more all weather tracks accross the island of Jamaica because the fact of the matter is that there is just only 3 all weather tracks in the whole island and for the athletes to be training, sacrificing and giving of themselves with the sort of results that we are getting on the international stage of compition then for sure is a testiment to our national representatives in track & field both at the junior and senior levels. It is an open secret that Jamaica’s strength in track & field athletics is primarily through and from our high school systems and the Girls & Boys Champs and the Gibson Relays etc. Then for the life of me i can’t see why it is soooo difficult for the government of Jamaica or any other entity that is really serious about implimenting more all weather track accross the island and to also improve on the various track facilitys on the various high school compounds accross Jamaica. Some of these schools that produce the world class athletes that goes on to represent Jamaica both at the junior and senior levels don’t even have a track for training. My point in case are schools like Camperdown High School which is knows as “the sprint factory” yet there is yet to be a track for the athletes to train at the school and so they have to train at the stadium east and the school has to pay a lot of money that they don’t really have be able to use the facility there as it is not for free. When there are world class coachs like Glen Mills ( Usain Bolt’s coach ) have to be wondering out loud if the stadium east track will be repaired in time for Bolt and others to be able to train and prepare themselves on same then something is very wrong with the current system and the powers that be that governs said system. When i see groups like the Jamaica Tourist Board and the minister of Tourism being profiled and present at yesterday’s function for Usain at Brooklyn College yet in the recent past us Jamaicans in the US that are connected to athletics and who formed a group that looks out for and help out the Jamaican high school athletes and the various teams that comes up the Pennsylvania each year for and to compete at the Penn Relays had on occasions asked the Jamaica Tourist Board for help in whatever way that they can and the Tourist board has always DECLINED to offer any help in the past. Usain i hope that you don’t let people USE you and that you allow your body to get the much needed REST that your body so need to effect the type of results that you got from your very hard training in 2008 and 2009. You make sure that these individuals and organizations give back in some meaningful way to Jamaican athletics.
Continued very rich blessings, walk good and stay strong. Stay humble and well grounded too.
that queen carl lewis bunny remember his feats were accomplished using PEDS which his country covered up thats y he finds it so hard 2 believe bolt’s talent. he is also jealous of the fact that because of his suspect presententation of himself & his arrogance he was not as sought after as bolt & has & will never earn as much as bolt he has 2 live with that him 2 bad mind
WOW did this guy 2 above just wrote a essay on why jamaica should fix the track field…. …woww
Awww… he (emmett the writer) is just so proud of USAIN… he is an incredibly magnetic person his parents did an absolutely splendid job with their son (and our Jamaican sun) pardon the pun
Usain keep that down to earth personality it serves you well.
Drag Queen Carl Lewis has nothing to say about talent, cause the drug fein never had any. Remember he was tested positive three times before the Seoul Olympics and the corrupted organization named USTF and USOC covered it all up, from the media. Lewis is such an hyprocrite that when Ben Johnson was found cheating he was the first athete to speak out, by calling Johnson a drug cheat, when he too was a cheat. Carl wasn’t a gracious loser either, during his latter part of his drug tainted career he would criticized his own teammates as drug cheats, when he had failed to make the 96 Olympic sprint team. So from wearing high heels stolettos on Sports Illustrated magazine cover, to his national athen singing career, Lewis caused our Great country the most embarassments……Hailed to Usain Bolt a true champion.