Bronchitis brings down Cayman sprinter

| 02/08/2021 | 21 Comments
Cayman News Service
Kemar Hyman in the 100m at the Tokyo Olympics

(CNS) Three-time Cayman Islands Olympian Kemar Hyman was disappointed at the weekend with his race in the 100m in Tokyo after missing out on qualifying for the semi-finals, largely due to a bout of bronchitis. Hyman said he did not run his best race Saturday, clocking 10:41, after becoming ill a few days ago. He was having trouble breathing and was unable to train the way he was hoping to, he said Saturday night. “I’m actually just now getting my breathing back, but I am still on antibiotics and an inhaler at the moment,” he added. The veteran track star said he was looking towards the future in hopes of a better time and going back to the drawing board.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy won the most coveted gold medal in athletics on Sunday with a time of 9.8, a new European record, followed by American Fred Kerley, who took silver with a personal best of 9.84, and Canada’s Andre de Grasse repeating his bronze of 2016 in 9.89. Jacobs was the first Italian ever to make the final in the most wide-open 100m sprint at the Olympics for years, and the first European athlete to win since the UK’s Linford Christie at Barcelona 1992.

Meanwhile, Cayman’s final Olympian takes to the track tonight in Tokyo. Shalysa Wray will be competing in the women’s 400m Heat 6, Lane 3 at 8:25pm Cayman time.

See Hyman offer post-race thoughts on Facebook.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    It is ALWAYS something with him. Always.

  2. Harriett Solomon says:

    good morning if he’s not fit he should let someone else get a chance god knows best

    • Anonymous says:

      Come on now. Haven’t you ever missed a day of work because you became sick. Should someone else have been given your job because you were sick.

  3. Sweet Brown says:

    bronchitis – ain’t nobody got time for that.

  4. Say it like it is. says:

    No way should he be going to Paris as he has suggested..Try coming back to Cayman who have paid him a healthy stipend for more than 15 years spent in the U.S., then he can repay our generosity by training our youngsters.

    • Anonymous says:

      Maybe our youngsters can just run faster than him.

      He is one of the few people to ever run under 10sec. So even as he gets old he still might be faster than the youngsters.

  5. Anonymous says:

    this is pathetic. He does this every Olympic games. Its absolutely embarrassing to the country.

  6. Anonymous says:

    at least he had a nice jolly out to tokyo…..
    has happened many times before with other members of the cayman team

  7. Anonymous says:

    Really and truly his excuses get worst and worst each time. I think the government really need stop sending all these poor performers to come last.

    Christ it’s embarrassing

  8. Anonymous says:

    This Man need to stop with the excuses, he always do this before any major event. Retire and stop collecting money for failing at each event. Enough is enough. I’m sure there are other Cayman athletes who would surely do better.

  9. Anonymous says:

    I think he just goes for the traveling experience. I may be wrong but I can’t remember one Olympics that he wasn’t sick or had some issue that made it impossible for him to perform. Kmt

  10. Anonymous says:

    Saturday interview “no excuses”. Sunday, wait, I forgot….

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