Oh YEAH!

$10 Million in cash awaits you—spend it wisely.

Great!! he won it for himself, parents and country!

viva Felix!

Santos won silver metal.

We're in 33rd place in medals.

I told you so, and I told myself so, but didn't press the trigger to bet, sh....t.
I could have been $1600 richer today!
DR Numero Uno! for gold, Luguelin won RD$6 million smack a roos...

Well done!
Many prayers have been answered. What an inspiration this guy is.

Roy
All is forgiven if you buy the liquor tonight! lol.

Congratulations to Felix and Luguerin; with all the overhyped about the PR’s runner, our boy kickA$$.

Long live Super Sanchez, long live the D.R.

More medals than PR

It is very strange that he has done as much for the Dr as nearly anyone ,,just as Usain Bolt has done for Jamaica ..sport if played in the right spirit can be a great ambassador for a country ,,,congratulations .
and we have a gold....sorry Roy .just like Australia has

At 35 Feliz wins gold in the 400 hurdle. WOW incredible

Luguelin Santo,s silver not bad for an 18 years old.

Congrats to both.

Yes, Ricky
Australia's not doing so well this time around - it seems things fall to pieces when I'm not home. Maybe our athletes are suffering from recovered memory syndrome from our convict days?

Very well done, made his country proud on the biggest of world stages.. Santo ran his heart out and should be very proud to have done so well, look forward to seeing him again in Rio.
Looking forward to seeing the girls go up against the Yanks in the volleyball...


"congratulations and we have a gold....sorry Roy .just like Australia has"

You may want to check that....
Still have more events to compete in. But not a good games by any standard for the Ozzies...

Kazakhstan? who would of thunk that one. 6-0-1.

El Viejito Felix en la Cima!! Generoso, with 16:1 odds you should have pulled the trigger!!


Santos going for Gold in RIO 2016. Perhaps we'll have a few more to offer possibilities in Rio 2016.

It's too bad that Santos could not repeat his easly looking victories in the heats. He was so far and away the best in those.

Atabey
I was in the betting site, ready to press "enter" and bet $100 on Sanchez, and I got distracted by an emails, and later I got busy and forgot about it! I guess that pr..ck costs me $1600 in winnings!

juanb
Be nice Haitian, it is not the time to dish DR athletes now.

It's a good thing I'm not into betting. I would have bet $100 on Santos, before betting the same on Sanchez. But Sanchez did look in very good form throughout. Santos is 18 and should be in excellent shape come Rio 2016. Let's see more quality runners from DR make it for Rio!!

Spinach... maybe ask your self why you had to come back under a new name???

that is a " Aitians" ??

stillhere
The hijacker of threads previously known as spinach, doing his daily unintelligible routine, uttering and groaning animal sounds, that only he understands, in his twisted and warped voo doo mind.

As I said to him before about learning... well.. it's all written above to see that it wont happen.

great job felix,representado pa tu pais.thats whats up.congrate manito

Are you kidding, HAITIson?

If he wore a dress, stilettos and a blonde wig he's still look 100% hetero. You will have to do better than that if you want to take anything away from his gargantuan victory. Many Australians have never even heard of the Dominican Republic, but he is all over the Australian media.

Who could not be moved by this:

wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8512029

Congrads to DR - they have so much potential in DR for sports - get more american coaches involved like they do in basketball and spend some of that money the politicos steal on the youth of the DR - My niece is on the National Softball Team and I see nothing but upside for the country - I would love to see them introduce Lacrosse down there - I think they could excel.
Congrads again DR - great job

It is clear, with such a positive news for the D.R. Mr negative loom & doom, the guy that hates the D.R. THE most is no where to be found. And you people still think he's Dominican; gimme a brake.


PS:

Not that we need his stupid opinion, just trying to prove a point..............

Later haters.......................

Take your Med Haitian, you're making a fool of yourself. It's embarrassing!

"Not that we need his stupid opinion,"

Yes you do, come on admit it you can’t live without josean!

In an effort to please the suspicious racist xenophobe here is my two cents of opinion:

Both these men are true Patriots; in spite of the Government’s National Negligence to EDUCATION and Sports they triumphed on their own for their country (adopted in Mr. Sanchez). Imagine how many other brothers and sisters are wasting their undeveloped talents because of the lack of opportunities our corrupt government denies them.

First of all Mr. Sanchez had a great personal achievement but he was born and raised the US! We are lucky he decided to share his win with DR.

“Sánchez was born in New York City to Dominican parents and was raised in San Diego, California. He attended University City High School and San Diego Mesa College in the city, and then went on to study psychology at the University of Southern California in 1998. Competing for University of Southern California's USC Trojans, he was a Pac-10 champion (400 m hurdles) and All-American relay champion (1600 m) in 1999.”

Mr. Santos is even more remarkable given his total lack of opportunity in DR and extreme poverty:

“Luguelín Santos (born 12 November 1993) is a Dominican sprinter.

“He and his siblings were raised by a single mother without any help from his father. He used to run without running shoes, for a long time barefoot. At his 16 he said: “Most of the times one goes to sleep without having dinner and one goes out to practice without having eaten. Sometimes in school, because I also wanted to be a good student, one goes without eating any breakfast. When in school, I remained in the classroom during the breaks because unlike the "kids with family" I did not have anything to eat, but it was OK, I used the time to do homework.”

continued:

“About his house and neighborhood he said "When it rains one is afraid that the ceiling will crumble because of the wind, and the house gets wet as it is full of leaks. Because this is a dangerous neighborhood, when one hears something out the window you stay quiet, whether they sneak in or not." Later he added.”

"When it is raining, one needs to add plastic bags from his feet to his ankles, inside most of the houses in our neighborhood"

Santos was basically raised most of his life under PLD's Narco misadministration of the country and in spite of that social neglect he was able to succeed so both he and his mother for that reason alone deserve a GOLD MEDAL!


Sources Wikipedia

Congrats to Felix. This is a hell of an accomplishment. But I hope in the future DR's athletes will have some better looking uniforms. The current uniforms are quite garish, if not downright "gay" looking.
P.S. Congratulations are also in order to our neighbors for getting the bronze medal.

"The current uniforms are quite garish"

The PLD buys them at the FLEA Market!

I guess some that call themselves 'Dominican", but they are not, because they can't even applaud a sports figure that won gold under the Dominican flag, and are always searching for dissent and trying to inject politics into a national olympic feat, that should be applauded, by strangers as well as Dominicans.
To those persons that are critical, and can not even applaud excellent apolitical performance, then I would suggest you leave this site, and never return, because buddy, you are in the wrong place.

You see guys how the Haitian came out crawling out of the wood work?

YOU'RE PATHETIC!

Lecture 101 on how to set up a Haitian. Lol.

He's a self-hating Haitian, ashame of whom he is.

Hopefully these successes will generate enough stimulus to force through some necessary changes in the way athletes are trained and provided for in DR. Many of the small islands of the Caribbean have used the USA as a spring board to Olympic success. The guy that beat Santos goes to the University of Alabama on scholarship. Unfortunately for many Dominicans, the education needed to successfully gain admission to USA universities are very slim as these demand competency in English language, as a prerequisite for admission. So the way forward would be to pay for trainers and staff to come to DR and slowly build up a native based quality staff with modern training facilities located in two urban areas, say SD and Santiago, to start.

It would also be very beneficial to integrate a National Sports competitive culture like those in the USA where Middle School youngsters and HS level candidates compete for athletic honors once a year. The best talent going on to fill

the National Team development squad.

Jamaica has a similar program at I believe the HS level.

There are many talented runners and other potential athletes that go begging for opportunities in the DR. Even more so in Haiti. Our mega millionaire Baseball players should help out by providing some seed money, via scholarship support, to promising youngsters or at least financial support for professional staffing development in DR.

With a well targeted development scheme, DR could very well introduce to the world in Rio 2016 a far better balanced and competitive Team DR to represent the country.

Congratulations Felix and Luguelin ........ Santos is the future gunner for DR.

To Spinach, Danny00 and Josean.....

EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT...!!!

Shocking but Atabey is 1000% right!

Atabey
Dream on buddy, dream on. The sports authorities in the DR are lost outside their little small town mentality. They applaud, cheer, and take photos with the athletes, to gain attention, but the sad part is that they have reached their level of incompetency in their post, (Peter Principle).
The person you mentioned, from Grenada that won the gold, not only he is a naturally gifted athlete, but also has a scholarship in the US, and trains with a coach that himself has won a track and field olympic medal.
If our "dumb and dumber" political sports authorities, and the lazy and inept royalty figures at the Olympic committee, start hustling for scholarships abroad for our promising sports youngsters, then a lot could be accomplished.

Atabey I surprised you were not put into the camp of questioning your “Nationality or Loyalty to the republic” for being critical of government policies or lack thereof that keeps us in the dark ages of athletic achievement.

congrats are in order, for both Felix, and Santos. then again, the old Dread called it right. i posted yesterday that Felix is running better now than he ever was. that is borne out by the fact that his time was exactly the same as the first medal. i wish Santos would have won, but, at 18, he has a lot of good days ahead. the guy from Grenada is pure talent, and a beautiful sportsman. congrats,all around. i feel so good for Felix. it just shows that you are only beaten when you say you are. so many people wrote him off as being washed up, and done.

He became one of the oldest player to win the gold also. He is a great athlete a true master of his craft.

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! Both of them : D

I don't know how much credit the Dominican Republic can take for Sanchez's win. He is an American citizen, born and raised in USA. He did it for his late grandmother who brought him up, not for the country of his ancestors. He was rejected by the American Olympic team selectors, since despite his obvious brilliance, was inconsistent, having failed to perform after learning of the death of his grandmother. Clearly his motivation was not money, which makes his victory more laudable.

Roy,
Make up your mind!. Are you rooting for the country that finally gave you a wife; or you are just, another hater? The man is Dominican!!! Let it go.

"He was rejected by the American Olympic team selectors, since despite his obvious brilliance, was inconsistent, having failed to perform after learning of the death of his grandmother." --Roystone


Roystone,

Felix WAS THE defending Olympic champion in 2008 when his grandmother passed away!

"If Sanchez's victory doesn't turn out to be the most unlikely gold-medal-winning effort of this week's track and field competition, it certainly will be near the top of that list. He won two world championships, an Olympic gold medal and 43 races in a row from 2001 to 2004, but he hadn't been in nearly as good form recently and appeared to be a few years past his prime."

Atabey,
Thanks, I have my orthotic shoes on and stand corrected.

My point Roy is that this is a great achievement for the men as athletes and a proud moment for Dominicans Everywhere.

However, their achievements are even more notable because the Dominican Government did not do ANYTHING to assist them.

Their Glory and that of the Dominican People should not be usurped by Filthy Greedy Politicians that would not ordinarly give these guys the Time of Day but for the fact they can now bask in THEIR glory, for which they did not contribute even a nanoparticle.

Josean,

That is so true!. These athletes, for the most part are “self-sustained”. Although Pagano gets the funding to support the potential, prospective ones who are going to march with our colors. They do not get any financial support until the very last minute (execution time) .

Dominican 2, Haiti 0. :P

Does
This
Dominican "Super Hero" MWA ha haha sometimes wear a CAPE ?

MWA hahah.

It is going to take 2300 light years for your beloved Haiti to get a medal in the Panam Games; let alone in the Olimpic Games.

@ingle23

A
dumINICAN
Speaking
Of light years

Wow
That's a new one .

Josean,
The government can't afford to pay athletes after paying obscene salaries and benefits to how many deputy sports ministers are there?

Lionel will be declaring another annual public holiday in his honor for the country winning 2 medals in the Olympics during his (caretaker) administration. He and his entourage will be heading to New York soon to address the United Nations on the importance of Olympic Games excellence in the pursuit of world peace, and how much he has contributed towards that goal.

@Roystone

I am sure that you already know that it's a bunch of " imb3cil3s " posting rants on the Internet these days
That goes for me as well

Your comments how ever 95% of the time do make sense and 80% of josean s also
Because the world are reading garbage being posted by the American citizens , they all copy them
But 5 years ago it wasn't like that

It's now impossible for someone to say that they are " poor "
Everybody nowadays are super rich and successful behind their screens
The word " Welfare " now has become a bad word to " utter "

Continue.....


If it is so then , I hope these cl0wns realize that if ( CindyCrawford , MichaelJordan, justinBeiber ) etc..... We're to get online and make them feel bad about the miserable salaries that they are earning busting their behinds doing some 9to5 jobs how they would feel about it
Just to show you how st00pid people really are and they s w ea r that they are smart and successful

Even third world countries are talking bad and criticize other third worlders
It's like the p0t cussing the kettle .
It's beyond belief.


The dominicans are a good example

So you say,my haitian son.