Former Jamaican Olympian Cries For Help

National javelin thrower, Olivia McKoy who has represented Jamaica at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and returned eight years later to participate at the Beijing showpiece is now selling bag juice in an attempt to survive. (PHOTOS: Jamaica Observer)

OLYMPIAN Olivia McKoy represented Jamaica with distinction at the premier global sports showpiece.
But these days, the national javelin record holder who donned the Jamaica colours for 20 years in various stadia, is almost flat on her face. Her tears, which flowed freely when the Jamaica Observer caught up with her selling bagged juices on the streets of Kingston late last week, signalled a battered and bruised woman who has been forced against the ropes.