Alfred Overcomes Obstacles To Be Crowned Olympic Sprint Queen

"I'd love to be the first," Julien Alfred said of the possibility of becoming the first Olympic medallist from the tiny Caribbean island of St Lucia -- on Saturday she achieved that in style by winning the women's 100 metres in Paris. Getting to the top of the podium was not a smooth passage for the 23-year-old devout Christian, whose victory came in front of 69,000 spectators, just 110,000 less than the population of St Lucia. At the age of 12, her father Julian Hamilton died. Five years later, just...