When members of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) meet in a couple of weeks to decide if it will host its annual National Senior Championships this year, it will have to determine if athletes will still want to take part in...
Jonielle Smith, the last-minute replacement for teenage sensation Briana Williams in the women’s 100m at the Doha World Championships, is still trying to salvage something from the 2020 athletics season. The former Wolmer’s High School for Girls...
LIKE MANY other track athletes, the racing bug has been itching quarter-miler Akeem Bloomfield as sports worldwide have come to a standstill because of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. However, the recent announcement by World Athletics that...
Technical Director of Cavalier SC Rudolph Speid believes that it would be in the best interest of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) for the 2019-20 season to be cancelled. Speid told The Gleaner that he does not believe that clubs would able to...
KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) principal Dave Myrie has refuted claims that St Jago High School sprint hurdler Vashaun Vascianna will be joining the school this September. The Gleaner understands that Vascianna, who broke the Class Two boys’ 110m hurdles...
THE OUTBREAK of the coronavirus has set back Veronica Campbell-Brown’s (‘VCB’) dream of participating in her sixth straight Olympic Games this year. However, the two-time Olympic 200m champion is not perturbed by the new challenges the virus has...
JAMAICA ATHLETICS Administrative Association President Dr Warren Blake says Jamaica might have to send two separate teams to the World Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games in 2022 as the events are scheduled to be held days apart. Two...
Christian Stokes, president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, remembers Sam Clayton Jr, one of the first Jamaican bobsledders, as a fearless man whose bravery helped to start the island’s participation in the event at the Winter...
What started out as a programme of land strengthening exercises for members of the Kaizen Swim Club in Kingston is quickly turning into a regional training session for swimmers as swim coach Rory Alvaranga tries to fill the void in the swimming...
The cancellation of this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships because of the outbreak of the coronavirus has left many unanswered questions. Chief among them is the question of who is the fastest schoolgirl in Jamaica as...
The uncertainty of the international football calendar because of the outbreak of the coronavirus has not blurred the Jamaica Football Federation’s vision of qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president...
JAMAICA BOBSLEIGH and Skeleton Federation President Chris Stokes said that the winter sports athletes who returned to the island two weeks ago have completed their self-quarantine. Carrie Russell, Audra Segree and others were forced to cut short...
KALIESE SPENCER- CARTER is hoping that the possibility of her fourth-place finish in the 400m hurdles at the London Olympic Games being upgraded to the bronze medal will inject some impetus into her career. The 32-year-old could be awarded her...
GYMNASTS TONI-ANN Williams and Reiss Beckford will have to hold their breaths for an extended period to find out if they will participate in the pending Olympic Games, as the event has been pushed back a year because of the outbreak of the...
Christopher Samuda, the president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), affirmed that the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games will have minimal financial implication on the association, as its business structure is set up to withstand...
Veteran athletics coach Glen Mills is hoping a postponement or cancellation of this year’s Olympic Games will not mean that the 2020 athletics season will be cancelled, but would cut a significant portion of track-and-field athletes’ earnings....
Apart from the potential cancellation of the Olympic Games, one main concern caused by COVID-19 for the 2020 track and field season is the loss of earnings by athletes. The worldwide outbreak of the virus has forced meets like the Grenada...
Unlike other players in the fraternity who are ruing the cancellation of the 2020 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, veteran athletics coach Glen Mills believes that the suspension and cancellation of sporting events is the...
After the Ministry of Health (MOH) stated that it is considering to add Japan, the host country of this summer’s Olympic Games, to the list of countries now under travel restrictions by Jamaica because of the outbreak of the coronavirus, Warren...
Fedrick Dacres became the first Jamaican to win a throwing medal at a global athletics event when he claimed silver in the men’s discus throw at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, last year. But the feat seems to have done very...
Oblique Seville’s 2019 season has placed him in the psyche of athletics fans locally as one of the up-and-coming short sprinters who will be tasked to reclaim the legacy of Jamaica dominating the 100m in the world. That legacy, which received...
Before Sherone Simpson called time on her long and illustrious career at the end of last season, she identified a void in sports in Jamaica that she believes is preventing athletes from maximising their potential. The 35-year-old says she is...
Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton told The Gleaner that he is prepared to advise Jamaican athletes against competing at the upcoming World Athletics Indoor Championships, scheduled for Nanjing, China, if the coronavirus continues to spread...
From working tirelessly to reinstate Jamaica into the International Gymnastics Federation (IGF), to funding a gym out of her own pocket, Nicole Grant-Brown, the president of the Jamaica Gymnastics Association (JAGA), has gone above and beyond to...
In order to make it easier for fans to attend their games, Waterhouse FC have secured permission from the Premier League Clubs Association (PLCA) to host Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) matches on Friday nights. The club will host its first Friday...
