From field of dreams to Olympic glory: Jamaica’s sprinting conveyor belt

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) -- On a dusty, sun-bleached grass sports field in Kingston, a crop of Jamaican schoolchildren are being put through their paces with dreams of following in the footsteps of Usain Bolt or Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Lines of chalk mark out the lanes of a rudimentary running track, where a few dozen young hopefuls are racing in the kind of athletics meeting that is popular across Jamaica, the spiritual home of sprinting. "Most of these kids want to become professionals; they all...