British African-Caribbean people In general, Scott's achievements are only thinly documented, and she is largely unknown to the British public and historians of sport. Jamaican-born Tessa Sanderson became the first British African-Caribbean woman to win Olympic gold, receiving the medal for her javelin performance in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Denise Lewis, of Jamaican heritage, won heptathlon gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, a games where 13 of Britain's 18 track and field representatives had Afro-Caribbean roots. Four years later in the Athens Olympics, Kelly Holmes, the daughter of a Jamaican-born car mechanic, achieved the rare feat of taking gold in both the
Sanderson Field (Texas) Sanderson Field (Texas) Sanderson Field is a former military airfield, located in Sanderson, Texas. It was used by the 90th Squadron (Surveillance) (Later Attack) between 1919 and 1921. Sanderson Field was established by the Air Service, United States Army in 1919. The 464th Aero Construction Squadron had been sent from Kelly Field, near San Antonio to establish an airfield in Sanderson to carry out observation overflights along the Mexican Border. During this period, Mexico was enduring a period of revolution and unrest, which led to border violations and the deaths of American citizens. The airfield consisted mostly of tents, both