Wow!

What an Olympic Games 2008 season it has been!

The Beijing Olympics started out with an awesome Opening Ceremony that enthralled all who saw it. It will go down in the Olympic Opening Ceremony history books for excitement, variation in themes, colour, texture, three dimensionality...

The let-down came for me days after when we heard that the real singer of the girl-through-the -air segment was not the one we saw because the actual singer was kept behind the curtain, deemed to be 'not pretty enough'.

The message of this to that little Chinese girl, all other litle Chinese girls and all girls everywhere on this planet that does not value the feminine enough is heart wrenching. I remember other times when women ruled and the process of deciding to balance things out by letting men take their turn.

This would give each gender the chance to experience both sides.

Happily we're nearing the end of that period and the resurging feminine energy across the planet will result not in women 'ruling' again but in both men and women partnering equally.

Until this manifests, we each can contribute to hasten this along by consciously uplifting the feminine each and every time we get the chance. Always within our own selves, everyday. Within every woman and girl with whom we interact daily and within men who are bit by bit getting more in touch with their feminine sides...

Today though, I just want to celebrate the medal ceremony that took place earlier this morning (yesterday evening in China) for the Women's 100-meter sprint event in Beijing.

The three Jamaican girls didn't get to enjoy their medalling right away because the US thought there was a false start, but this morning even that was wiped away by the sheer exuberance and overwhelming joy of the moment.

Yesterday morning here in Jamaica after the race, we saw the mother of Shelly-Ann Fraser, the 100-meter Gold winner, on local Jamaican television. Shelly-Ann and her Mom live in Waterhouse, one of Jamaica's most challenging, politically divided, inner city ghetto communities.

Towards the end of her training period, her high school had to help out by finding her alternative accommodations to minimise stress during her critical final preparation.

Two of the three Jamaican finalists hail from Jamaican inner-city communities and as her mother said in both of her television interviews, 'parents, take care of the children,.... they are the future'.

Shelly-Ann Fraser's Gold 100-meter run clocked 10.78. Sherone Simpson and
Kerron Stewart tied with 10.98, verified or taken down to the
thousandth of a second.

This is the first time that a Jamaican woman has won the 100m women's sprint and the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that there has been a Silver-tie in this event. It is also the first time that one country has swept the 'fastest woman in the world' event 1-2-3!

Congratulations to Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart! All Jamaica and Jamaicans around the world are PROUD of you!

AND we await similar results in the 200-meter women's sprint and relay events! ;-)

Congrats to All Beijing 2008 Olympians! Each and every one of You are winners.

Read a running commentary on the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony coverage that I gave via Twitter and other short pieces on the Jamaican Beijing Olympic Games upsets 2008.

Jamaican Women Sweep 100-Meter Sprint Event At Beijing Olympics 2008