We, Jamaicans All Over The World, Are Proud of Athletes' Performance in Beijing 2008

Jamaica is under a tropical storm watch, but nothing can dampen the island nation's enthusiasm for its new Olympic sprint stars.

Already elated over Usain Bolt's world-record run in the men's 100 on Saturday, Jamaicans got something else to celebrate when Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart swept the women's 100 on Sunday.

Olivia Grange, Jamaica's minister of information, culture, youth and sports, had said after Bolt's stunning 9.69 that she was "on top of the world." Where did Fraser's 10.78 and the photo-finish 10.98 each run by Simpson and Stewart leave her?

"I am on top and all over it," Grange said. "It's just wonderful. Amazing.

"It's national pride and it's an inspiration to all Jamaica, particularly to our young people. It gives us something we can say to our young people to strive for."

We Are All Jamaicans: We See Ourselves in Usain Bolt, Dreaming About Flying and Writing Poetry With Our Legs

Usain Bolt's Celebration After Winning the Men's 200-meter Final in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Usain Bolt's stride was exactly "poetry in motion. He is not like a beast running. He's a gazelle...And he recognized the responsibility of seizing the moment, and he did it."

The world watched the race that set apart the World's Fastest Human apart from the rest of us. Usain Bolt did for Jamaica what Jamaican Coffee has not been able to do thus far. Well, we must say that the two of them will be great representatives of Jamaica from now on. By doing so, he joined the ranks of Carl Lewis of the United States who was the last runner to win both in the same Olympics.

And the quotes just expressed the disbelief and bewilderment that most people felt on this day. "How fast can one human being go before there's no more going fast?" Let Usain describe what he saw after his win.

"I was looking at myself and saying, "That guy's fast," Bolt said after watching a replay of his race, "I was saying, 'I look cool.'" Long Live Jamaica! Jamaica truly has Usain Bolt, the Coffee and Bob Marley. It is a cool place to be from. On this day, we are all Jamaicans. Jamaicans everywhere should be overjoyed and overwhelmed on this day.

Jamaica's minister of information, culture, youth and sports put her own spin on things: "We eat healthy. We have the natural talent. We train. And we have a tradition of being great athletes. It is a wonderful gift."

Was this Olympic feast due to good, healthy eating only? Yes, Caribbean people have yams. Jamaica even exports the starchy food item. Yam eating is good for athletes. It is good for Usain Bolt and the Jamaican women who swept the competition and ended 1,2,3. Yam has no drugs. Others have speculated that Jamaicans' success could be because of more than healthy eating, cherised tradition and natural talent. If you think about the sport's recent history of drug cheats such as Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Tim Montgomery and Kelli White, then you may think that the U.S. sports have a major problem, but not Jamaica. Bolt has been tested so many times. It was pure natural talent and training.