I don't disagree with this, but what's so special about Jamaican sprinters in particular? Why don't we "celebrate" the current excellence of the Kenyans and Ethiopians in the middle and long distances, for example? It's not because it's less recent--all three countries have been steadily building their Olympic and World Championships medal counts (and WR counts) for decades now, with the Ethiopians having the most recent and meteoric rise of the three. (Yes, it's a rhetorical question, but really, why is it any more "fair"?) For that matter, Bolt's compatriot Asafa Powell held (and repeatedly re-set) the men's 100m WR for several years before Bolt came along, but not by nearly so impressive a margin, and how many people even remember who he is? People like to see the hit-you-over-the-head phenomenon in an event they find "accessible" (which is itself a pretty arbitrary perception that varies dramatically across the world, but that's a whole other tangent...). Not much point railing against that, any more than there is against the entertainment value of a larger-than-life prima donna or showboater.