In a huge shift of focus in past several years, there has been an increasing number of top athletes from the Caribbean and several erstwhile British colonies of African continent. Time was when US and Europe dominated athletics but when men and women from the Caribbean, East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa enrolled into American universities and had access to superior training methods, many of them emerged as top athletes. The same thing happened with smaller island nations of Mediterranean and the Pacific. Special mention may be made of countries like the Bahamas, Grenada, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados,