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Runaway success
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
JAMAICAN athletes have made everyone sit up with their achievements in the Beijing Olympics.

Usain Bolt, in particular, has brought smiles to everyone with his unique way of celebrating his wins.

What's the secret of Jamaica's success since it is a nation of only 2.8 million people?

One theory is that Africans who survived the trek across the seas to the Caribbean were the fittest slaves, and slaves who made it as far as Jamaica and the Bahamas, the most westerly islands, must have been the fittest of the fit.

Find out more in tomorrow's edition of The Sunday Times.

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