There was the gold medal effort of 17.21 meters (m) in the men's triple jump at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico this past July. Otherwise, the 2010 season was a relatively low-key one for Bahamian Leevan Sands.
Somehow, Sands always seems to be under the radar, even when he wins medals. At the 2010 CAC Games, the astonishing medal haul by swimmer Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, gold medals in tennis, boxing and a few in athletics, added to Sands' success. Quarter-miler Christine Amertil, high jumper Donald Thomas won gold also. In that Bahamian success mixture, although he has been one of our premier elite athletes since the birth of the new millennium, ...

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