Grenada declares half-holiday for runner James Olympic gold

MIAMI (Reuters) – Grenada's prime minister declared a half-holiday on Tuesday and gave the entire island the afternoon off to celebrate runner Kirani James' Olympic gold medal in the men's 400 meter race. It was the first Olympic medal ever won by an

The small Caribbean nation of Grenada, liberated from a Communist coup by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, won their first Olympic medal in history today!

LONDON — The day after Kirani James traded nametags with double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, he picked up an even more valuable piece of Olympic history: the first medal for his tiny country of Grenada. Pretty nice color, too.

And then came Grenada. A sensational run Monday by 19-year-old Kirani James in the 400 meters final gave the country its first-ever gold medal and a seemingly unassailable lead on the medal-strike table: one gold for every 109000 residents (the country