NEW YORK, CMC—A well-liked Caribbean-American journal in New York has named Jap Caribbean Olympians “Individuals of the Yr for 2024.”
Herman Corridor, the Grenadian-born writer and proprietor of All people’s journal, which relies in Brooklyn, New York, mentioned that readers of the 47-year-old publication have chosen Jap Caribbean Olympians for his or her “triumphs on the 2024 Paris Olympiad.”
They’re Julien Alfred of St. Lucia, Thea LaFond-Gadson of Dominica, Lindon Victor, Anderson Peters, Kirani James of Grenada, and Shafiqua Maloney of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Alfred, 23, gained St. Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medal, attaining gold within the 100 meters on the 2024 Summer time Olympics in Paris and establishing a brand new nationwide report of 10.72 seconds within the last.
In profitable gold within the triple soar on the 2024 Summer time Olympics, LaFond-Gadson, 30, additionally turned the first-ever Dominican Olympic medalist. She was additionally the 2024 World Indoor triple soar champion.
Victor, 31, is the 2023 World and 2024 Olympic bronze medalist for the decathlon and a two-time Commonwealth Video games champion (2018–2022).
In the meantime, the 27-year-old Peters gained bronze within the males’s javelin on the Paris Olympics. He was additionally the 2019 and 2022 world champion within the self-discipline and a a number of CARIFTA Video games champion.
Specializing within the 400 meters, James, 32, Grenada’s first Olympic medalist, gained the 400m on the World Championships in 2011 and captured gold on the 2012 London Olympics.
Moreover, James gained silver on the 2016 Rio Olympics and bronze on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He, subsequently, turned the primary athlete to achieve the whole set of three medals within the centennial annals of the Olympics.
In keeping with Olympics.com, “In a few 12 months, Shafiqua Maloney has risen from determined lows to changing into the primary Vincentian athlete to achieve the ultimate stage at an Olympic occasion in Paris 2024.
“On Monday [August 5] on the Stade de France, the middle-distance runner from St. Vincent and the Grenadines barely missed out on a podium end within the girls’s 800m last,” it added.
Maloney, 25, positioned fourth within the last and holds the 800m nationwide report indoors and open air for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
“All enhanced their nation’s stature and impressed the youth of the Caribbean,” Corridor instructed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) on Sunday.
“Many nominated US vice-president Kamala Harris, Olympic gold and silver medalist Julien Alfred, Machel Montano and Beres Hammond. Others steered individuals of their group.”
Corridor mentioned All people’s additionally saluted the 2024 Jamaican Olympians.
“They introduced house six medals – one gold, three silvers, and two bronzes,” he famous, stating that earlier All people’s “Individual of the Yr” who’re Jamaicans embrace Usain Bolt (2008 and 2016); Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce (2019); and actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (2023), who was born within the US to a Jamaican immigrant.
Final December, All people named Ralph and James as “Individuals of the Yr for 2023.”
Corridor famous that earlier All people’s “Individual of the Yr” recipients have included Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, and Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell.
“Most of this journal readers at present are first-and second-generation Caribbean-Individuals,” he mentioned. “They have been born and raised in America; subsequently, their nominations usually are not essentially somebody born and raised within the area.”
Corridor mentioned All people invitations its readers to recommend somebody or an occasion for Individual of the Yr, which begins in September yearly.
“There was a 12 months when two hurricanes have been our phenomenon of the 12 months,” he mentioned. “Bear in mind, we’ve been saying a ‘Individual of the Yr’ since 1978. It was then referred to as ‘Man of the Yr’ and ‘Girl of the Yr’.
“Within the previous days, we had a dinner of their honor, with the proceeds going to charitable and academic establishments,” Corridor added.
“Recipients who attended the Gala of their honor included Sir Arthur Lewis (late St. Lucian economist) when he gained the Nobel Prize; Eugenia Charles (of Dominica), when she turned the primary lady to move a authorities in a CARICOM (Caribbean Group) state.”
He mentioned the Governor Youngsters Fund in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was the primary group to obtain a donation within the late Seventies.
“In recent times, we’ve not had an occasion to honor the recipient or recipients, nor have we met them,” Corridor mentioned.
He mentioned All people’s started its “Individual of the Yr” Award in 1978 on the suggestion of Helen B. Lucas “to rejoice the journal’s first anniversary.”
That 12 months, Corridor mentioned Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago, who, in 1977, turned the primary lady of coloration to be topped Miss Universe, “acquired the accolades.”
Corridor mentioned Commissiong shared the honour with Calypso Rose, “the primary lady to shatter the male domination of calypso by profitable the 1977 Nationwide Calypso King title, thereby forcing the renaming of the distinguished competitors to the Nationwide Calypso Monarch.”
All people’s writer mentioned Sir Arthur and his spouse attended the journal’s 1980 dinner in his honor, “celebrating his 1979 Nobel Prize.”
Corridor famous that Sir Arthur was the primary Black Individual to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Sir Arthur died on June 15, 1991.
