Breaking away from the ‘big boys’? Jamaican and ‘White Commonwealth’ expectations at the 1966 British Empire & Commonwealth Games
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1966, Jamaica became the first nation outside of Britain and its former white dominions to host the Commonwealth Games. Jamaican officials anticipated that hosting the Games just four years after the nation achieved independence would provide the country with an unprecedented opportunity to announce itself to the world and secure valuable economic dividends. Recognising the importance of positive publicity, and the daunting task they faced, Jamaican authorities endeavoured to ensure that the Games were a success. Unfortunately, a number of vociferous officials, athletes and media commentators from the traditional host nations (the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) were not shy when it came to sharing their views about the hosts' shortcomings. Such complaints expressed a consistent tone of disapproval with three main aspects of the Games: the extent to which they were able to sustain what was understood to be a traditional contribution to Commonwealth unity, the overall organisation of the competitions, and the state of the nation itself. These assessments also reveal a consistent sense of entitlement from the traditional host nations and highlight their sometimes alarmed responses to a changing political and athletic context in which Caribbean and African nations were becoming increasingly powerful.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".