Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association First Vice-president Ian Forbes says the reduction of American sprinter Christian Coleman’s two-year ban could send the wrong message to athletes about missing drug tests. It was reported yesterday that...
For almost 30 years, the Purewater/Jamaica College (JC)/R. Danny Williams Development Meet has established itself as the pacesetter on the local athletics calendar, as it is the first meet to start the new year. And though the coronavirus pandemic...
After it was announced that the men’s track and field and cross country programmes at Clemson University will be cancelled at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, its director of track and field, Mark Elliott, says he hopes the team’s performance...
President Wayne Shaw says the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) will announce an international sponsor for its youth programmes for the 2021 season as they are ready to continue the development of young footballers. The...
In less than two months, a new era of the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA) will begin as members are set to decide who will become the next president of the association on November 28. With two of the sport’s well known servants...
World long jump champion Tajay Gayle will compete in Europe for the first time this season in Bellinzona, Switzerland, today, while three of his training partners from MVP Track Club left the island yesterday to join him on the continent, as they...
The hierarchy of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) is to meet in the coming weeks to formulate a plan to hold its annual general meeting (AGM) in November amid the recent spike in COVID-19 cases. This year’s AGM holds...
Outgoing president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Dr Warren Blake, says the federation should look to orchestrate a plan to keep junior athletes competitive next season. This, as the Inter-secondary Schools Sports...
Like she did during her second Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn is approaching her second general election with a sense of composure. Cuthbert-Flynn, who won two silver medals at the Barcelona Games in 1992, told The Gleaner...
Bruce James, president of MVP Track Club, says the University of Technology-based athletics club could still travel to Europe this year if it is safe to do so. Every year, the Stephen Francis-coached group move their training base to Italy for the...
The national senior men’s football team could be back in camp at the beginning of August to resume preparation for the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers even though Concacaf has not released a schedule for the games. President Michael Ricketts...
Though they have been waiting for almost year, the Corporate Area-based travel agency that made arrangements for some members of the Pan American Games delegation that travelled to Lima, Peru, last year, will have to exercise more patience, as they...
For the first time in four months, Jamaican athletes steamed down the athletics track at the National Stadium in competition on Saturday. This as track and field burst out of the silence of lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic and resumed...
Reigning 110m hurdles Olympic champion Omar McLeod is now a brand ambassador of shoe company Puma. McLeod, who failed in his attempt to retain his World title in the 110m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, last year, was...
Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) president Dr Warren Blake says that the National Senior Championships is only one meeting from being cancelled, as only a small number of athletes have indicated that they would participate if the...
‘Tek yuh hand turn fashion’ has always been a mantra of the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (JBSF), and its latest innovative training methods are reaping rewards. This as car-manufacturing giant BMW has supplied Jamaica’s male two-man...
General Manager of Independence Park Limited (IPL) Major Desmon Brown says that the organisation will not discuss reopening protocols for the National Stadium until they receive the go-ahead from the Government to resume operations at the facility...
THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) is set to meet with a number of coaches later this week to discuss the restart of competition after the coronavirus pandemic forced the sport to go on hold since early March. President of the...
As coronavirus restrictions continue to ease in Jamaica and around the world, the Jamaica Football Federation is looking to get its senior men’s team preparations for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers back into gear. Michael Ricketts, the president...
Jair Lyons, the operator of Jamaican fitness company 876 CrossFit, has discontinued his affiliation with parent company CrossFit, after the company’s CEO posted a tweet making light of George Floyd’s death. Floyd, an African American man, died...
Former Reggae Boy Demar Phillips said he is open to returning home and finishing his lengthy and successful career in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL), Jamaica’s top-flight football competition. The 36-year-old, who has won 72 caps for the...
Stephen Francis, one of the founders of MVP Track Club, has declined to comment on reports that four-time World 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has left the club for a second time. Francis, who has been guiding the career of Fraser-...
Maurice Wilson, the head coach of Sprintec Track Club, says his charges will be ready to compete when action in athletics resumes in August. The veteran sprint coach says that even though the recent two-week lockdown of St Catherine, where the club...
MINISTER OF Sport, Olivia Grange, says she is working with the various local sporting bodies to develop a plan to reopen the country’s sporting industry amid the coronavirus pandemic. Like other countries across the globe, organised sports in...
Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) President Warren Blake is still hoping that the Government will assist athletes whose earning potential has been affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Blake said that the association has...
