Seet ya now!!!! Yes, the time has finally come. We have been talking about this since Usain Bolt's lightning fast 100-metre run on May 3, and after his even more blistering run on May 31. The conversations became still more animated when, for the first time in our history, five Jamaican women ran under 11 seconds over the 100 metres in the same year.

Now, the time for talking has ended because the time for doing is nigh.

David versus Goliath

The Jamaica versus the United States, David versus Goliath, dual track meet is here!

And, boy, am I excited?

'I'm so excited and I just can't hide it I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.'

This little country stands on the threshold of accomplishing the inconceivable, knocking off the United States as the kings and queens of the short sprints. Ladies and gentlemen, we don't have the technology but we have the capability to make the world's first pint-sized sprint champions. Jamaica can be that champion. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

The showdown

The anticipation of the battles featuring Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay, Kerron Stewart, Sherone Simpson, Shelly-Ann Fraser and Tori Edwards, Lauryn Williams and Muna Lee, and of course, the showdown between Allyson Felix and Veronica Campbell Brown, is just too much for my poor little head. I feel like I want to lie down.

And when you think about the possibilities of what the relay teams can accomplish, not to mention our rising star Melaine Walker, and the man with the giant heart and the burglar guts, Danny McFarlane, it's all a little too much.

What a thing if we get one-two in the men's 100 and a 1-2-3 in the women's? These things are so very possible but, even if they don't, I am sure the athletes will do well enough to have us talking about these Games well into the next decade. It could be the stuff of legend!

Don't need drugs

Success for our athletes in Beijing can do great things, not just for Jamaica, but also for the sport of track and field that has been so badly tainted by the spectre of drugs that looms over every great performance.

They have tested our athletes so many times, since they have been in Beijing, they must be convinced that we don't need drugs. So, if this team manages to fulfil its maximum potential, it could kick-start a whole new era for track and field, a return to the glory days when there was not so much scepticism surrounding each and every performance.

It would also be nice to know that this little nation played such an integral role in this process of renewal.

Our fantastic legacy

But, you know why I am even more excited than I would be normally? If the Olympics had been held last year, I would have been forced to watch it in a country that has no appreciation for what we Jamaicans hold so dear - our fantastic legacy, as the sprint factory of the world. It is a legacy that is about to have its watershed moment and I am home to really enjoy it.

If Bolt or Powell wins the 100-metre dash Saturday morning, and I was still living in Saint Maarten, I would have been forced to spend mucho dinero calling Jamaica just to talk to somebody, who would have been able to share my enthusiasm, my passion for the sport of track and field.

I would never see the races on local television and I would not have been able to have the opportunity to share my views with the public like I do now. Yes, it's moments like these that make me glad to be back home, especially when, as far as I am concerned, the real Olympics have begun.

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