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FEATURES ON <strong>THE</strong> COVER The Preview family will view the 2007 edition with sadness. It ushered in a new era in the 24 year old publication as it was the last one publisher David Hunt had a hand in as he died suddenly later in the year. His editorial introduced readers to Glenroy Morgan and Oliver Harris as the new team undertaking the predictions, which hold the interest of Champs fans each year. Hunt had growing duties in football coaching and administration to attend to and carefully selected the pair to care for the heart of the Preview. Morgan and Harris began brilliantly. Their predictions got the winning totals for Boys Champs and Girls Champs almost to the very digit and correctly foretold the top teams. Their work continued the accurate forecasting that David had worked so hard to establish. 2007By: Hubert The cover once again featured high school athletes after a three year departure that had placed Usain Bolt, the 2004 Olympic 4x100 winning ladies team, Asafa Powell and Trecia Smith as the feature images on the face of the Preview. Camperdown’s Remaldo Rose, St Jago’s Natasha Ruddock, Theon O’Connor of Campion College and Schillonie Calvert of Holmwood Technical looked ready to run off the cover and into the National Stadium, which hosted Champs from March 28 to 31. That fantastic four were placed on a caption that read ‘4 for The Future’. Rose, the defending Class 1 100 and 200 metre champion, was upset in the short event by the speedy Yohan Blake of St Jago who took Tesfa Latty’s 2003 record of 10.24 seconds down to 10.21. With Rose not competing, Blake took the 200m as well. Blake’s 200m produced the second fastest run in Champs history – 20.62 seconds, as the climax of a super session of sprinting around the curve. The other boys to blaze were the Calabar pair of Ramone McKenzie who did the second half of a Class 2 400m/200m double in 20.89 seconds, and Travis Drummond, who brought the 22 second barrier within reach for Class 3 boys with his super clocking of 22.17 seconds. Nevertheless, Hunt got his last Preview cover subject selections mostly right. Ruddock joined her St Jago predecessor Melaine Walker by winning the Class 1 100 metre hurdles to complete a collection of gold medals that started in Class 4. O’Connor made it 5 straight in the 800 metres and left Champs as a three time Class 1 winner. The Preview pegged Calvert as a repeat winner of the Class 1 girls sprint double. She did win the 100m again but lost the 200m to Holmwood teammate Anatascia Leroy, as their school won the Girls Champs crown for the 5th time in a row. Lawrence Calvert was the only one of the four on the cover to see the big times in the years beyond Champs 2007. She ran the 4x100m heats in the 2012 Olympics and gained a silver medal for her efforts. In the following season, she stormed the third leg to help Jamaica to win the gold medals in the national record time of 41.28 seconds at the 2013 World Championships. Calvert isn’t the only 2007 winner to become a senior standard bearer. Blake, his St Jago colleague and Class 1 400m winner Rikert Hylton, Calabar’s Andrew Riley, the heptathlon champion, and Warren Weir – St George’s, Class 1 shot put runner-up, O’dayne Richards, Vere Tech triple jump queen, Kimberly Williams and Holmwood’s Class 4 high jump record breaker, Janieve Russell, are just a few of the 2007 participants whose names are called often these days when Jamaica goes to battle against the world in track and field athletics. Blake is the most successful of them all. In 2011, he won the 100 metres at the World Championships and placed second to Usain Bolt at the Olympic Games in 2012. Bolt, Blake and Weir shared in a famous moment in Jamaica’s sporting history in those Games as they finished 1-2-3 in the 200 metres. Sadly injuries slowed Rose and Ruddock, with the former nevertheless getting a silver as anchor of the 2010 Commonwealth Games men’s sprint relay team. On a personal note, Hunt might have been a bit sad, as McKenzie and Drummond helped Calabar to end a six year winning streak by his former high school Kingston College. An even sadder moment was to come later in 2007. 5