Dwight Thomas O.D (born September 23, 1980) is a Jamaican sprinter, mainly competing in the 100 metres event and more recently the 110 m hurdles.

He won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships in 1998 at the 100 m and gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics and finished 5th at the 2005 World Championships. Later in 2005 he won a bronze medal at the 3rd IAAF World Athletics Final and rank number 3 in the world.

Thomas represented Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4 x 100 m relay together with Michael Frater, Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell. In their qualification heat they placed first in front of Canada, Germany and China. Their time of 38.31 was the second out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. Thomas was replaced by Usain Bolt for the final race and they sprinted to a new world record time of 37.10 seconds, claiming the gold medal.

Dwight started athletics at an early age competing for Calabar High school in Kingston Jamaica winning the 100 m and the 200 m and set two records at the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association National Boys & Girls Athletic Championship held at the National Stadium, Kingston. On March 22, he won the Class 2 100 m in 10.80sec and the Class 2 110 m hurdles in 14.08.[3]

Akwasi Frimpong (alias GoldenSprint, born February 11, 1986 in Ghana) is best known as the subject of the Dutch documentary film, “De Theorie van Het Konijn,” or “The Rabbit Theory.” He is also well known for his 13 year fight for Dutch citizenship. He hopes to compete as a sprinter, representing the Netherlands, in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Frimpong spent his first eight years in a small one-room home in the African village of Kumasi, Ghana, surrounded by nine other grandchildren, all under the care of his grandmother, Grandma Minka. Though they all slept on the ground and his grandmother struggled to feed that many mouths, Frimpong remembers those years with fondness. As a child, it was great to have that many playmates.

From Grandma Minka, Frimpong learned that he could achieve much, even with little resources, as long as he kept believing in himself.

At the age of eight, Frimpong joined his mother Esther Amoako, the famous Ghanaian gospel singer, in the Netherlands. At that time, he was not a legal immigrant to the Netherlands, but his family worked on obtaining his Dutch residence permit. The process took 13 more years, and a monumental effort by his many supporters. He finally earned his residency permit in 2007, and gained Dutch nationality in 2008.

Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911.

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Berlin's native Russia, which also "flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania." Over the years he was known for writing music and lyrics in the American vernacular: uncomplicated, simple and direct, with his aim being to "reach the heart of the average American" whom he saw as the "real soul of the country."

He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him "a legend" before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including "Easter Parade", "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "This is the Army, Mr. Jones", and "There's No Business Like Show Business". His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's "God Bless America" which was first performed in 1938. Smith still performed the song on her 1960 CBS television series, The Kate Smith Show. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Celine Dion recorded it as a tribute, making it #1 on the charts.