Donovan Bailey is a yardie. For the uninitiated, the term is used among the Jamaican diaspora to describe someone of Jamaican origin that maintains roots with the homeland. He’s also a highly ...

CBC Sports’ Oral Histories will take you behind the scenes of some of the biggest, most spectacular moments in Canadian sports history and into the minds of the athletes and people involved. In this ...

Understanding the sprinter’s record-setting victory as Canada’s top athletic achievement Canadian athlete Donovan Bailey shows his elation with creating a new world record in the Olympic 100 meter ...

Sprinters are famously self-assured athletes. When one-hundredth of a second separates the greats from the also-rans, confidence is critical. Donovan Bailey is a sprinter, through and through. From ...