Brown out 200m showdown with Bolt

Jody Placid gave Grenada their second gold at the 32nd CARIFTA Games when he captured the Boys Under-17 javelin during the morning session of day two at the Hasely Crawford Stadium yesterday.

Placid registered a 57.71-metre throw for a comfortable win over Guadeloupe’s Jonathan Dennis (55.97), while Aymara Albury secured the first gold for the Bahamas at the 2003 meet by capturing the Girls Under-20 shot put. Grenada, a regional javelin powerhouse, claimed the first title at stake in the event and also took the bronze, through Wayne George at 49.29 metres.  Albury, a bronze medallist in the Girls Under-20 discus on Saturday, stepped up two spots for gold in the shot put, with a 13.62-metre effort. Tressa-Anne Charles, of St Lucia, was second at 13.21, and French Guyana’s Hemat Astride (12.37) took third.

On the track in the morning, World Junior champion Usain Bolt set himself up for the 200/400 double when he comfortably won his 200-metre semi-final heat in 21.02 seconds. His anticipated 200-metre showdown today with World Junior 100-metre champion Darrel Brown is now off after Brown — who limped with a thigh problem after his 100-metre win Saturday night — was scratched from the event.