GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Bahamian women’s 4×100 relay team won’t go to Tokyo as one of the favorites to win the event, but count on their story being told in the context of what happened in international sprinting two decades ago in their home country.
They were known simply as “The Golden Girls.”
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Savatheda Fynes-Coke, both just out of high school, teamed with a pair of collegians in Chandra Sturrup and Pauline Davis-Thompson to win gold medals in both the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Summer Olympics Games at Sydney. Had the 2020 Games not been whacked by COVID-19, the 20-year anniversary stories of the celebrated sprinters would have been aplenty.
And probably still will be one year later.
Doneisha Anderson, a third-year junior at Florida, along with Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Georgia), Megan Moss (Kentucky) and Anthonique Strachan (St….
