Barbadians will most remember the 2018 Carifta games, not for maintaining their place as the number four Caribbean athletic nation, or for the three gold medals earned, but for the man who almost erased a record of the legend, Usain Bolt.

On March 31, the second day of the event at the Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas, Kyle Gale, of Barbados burst into what he and all fans thought was the record books by breasting the tape first in the Under-17 Boys’ 400 metres with a new time of 47.07 seconds, eclipsing Bolt’s 47.33 seconds set in 2002.

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