TOKYO, Japan: Limping and heavily bandaged, Yohan Blake’s painful walk away from the track after his disappointing semi-final finish in the men’s 100m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in many ways reflected the current condition of Jamaica’s male...
TOKYO, Japan: National 400m hurdles champion Jaheel Hyde looked well set for a place in the final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Powering past opponents, gliding over barriers, turning for home with less than 100m between him and his first...
TOKYO, Japan: Jamaican triple jump standout Kimberly Williams has targeted a new personal best (PB) in the final of the women’s triple jump at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Williams booked her spot to the medal round on her last attempt during...
TOKYO, Japan: It has been 4,732 days since an unknown from Waterhouse, Kingston, named Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, made her first appearance for Jamaica at a major global championships. The occasion was the heats of the women’s 100 metres at the...
TOKYO, Japan: There were mixed fortunes for Jamaica’s male throwers at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with Chad Wright being the lone survivor on a day that saw two of the country’s three throwers fail to advance to the final of the men’s discus...
TOKYO, Japan: Young Jamaican sprinter Briana Williams is eager to get going in the sprint relays and noted that she holds no grudges after missing out on an individual spot in the 100 metres at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “I have no regrets that...
TOKYO, Japan: Jamaican middle-distance standard-bearer Natoya Goule believes that she is in the shape of her life and after easing to a comfortable victory in yesterday’s women’s 800 metres heats at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the Tokyo Olympic...
TOKYO, Japan: Retired sprinter Usain Bolt is eyeing a return to track and field but at a much slower pace. Bolt, who hung up his spikes after the 2017 World Championships in London after a decade of dominance that saw him mine eight Olympic and 11...
TOKYO, Japan: Defending double Olympic sprint champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah, admitted that it will be difficult for herself and the other Jamaican sprinters who are doubling at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to compete in the heats of the women’s...
TOKYO, Japan: This has been anything but a straightforward and comfortable build-up to the Olympic Games by discus star Fedrick Dacres. Dacres, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, has had to deal with...
TOKYO, Japan: On the back of Jamaica’s historic participation in the judo competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda says the organisation aims to expand the country’s footprint in...
TOKYO, Japan: Jamaican sprinter Tyquendo Tracey has no doubts that he is better than his 9.96 seconds personal best and is hoping to put the perfect race together at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and spring a surprise in the 100m event. It has been...
TOKYO, Japan: With track and field action set to take centre stage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games starting on Friday (Thursday night Jamaica time), Jamaica’s coaches and management team are still scratching their heads about the composition of the...
TOKYO, Japan: With a personal best that takes her closer to that 15m barrier, World Championships silver medal winning triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts is heading into the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the best shape of her life and primed for further...
TOKYO, Japan: With a number of medal magnets missing from Jamaica’s track and field team for the first time since the country’s golden era began in 2008, one of the island’s youngest groups to an Olympic Games will be charged with maintaining the...
TOKYO, Japan: It was not the spectacle she was hoping to produce, but for Jamaican gymnast Danusia Francis, 11 seconds and a few skills on the lower bar, during the artistic gymnastics competition inside the Ariake Gymnastics Centre at the Tokyo...
TOKYO, Japan: Jamaican swimming star Alia Atkinson rued the absence of spectators at the Tokyo 2020 and believes that not winning a medal at the Olympic Games over her career does not change her legacy in the sport. Atkinson yesterday failed to...
TOKYO, Japan: One of the most impactful swimmers of the last few years looks set to walk away from the sport, as barrier-breaking Jamaican Alia Atkinson was left to contemplate retirement after missing out on a spot in the semi-finals of the women’...
TOKYO, Japan: Despite suffering a complete tear of the meniscus during a recent training session, essentially crushing her Tokyo 2020 ambitions, Jamaican middle distance athlete Aisha Praught-Leer says she remains grateful that she will still be...
TOKYO, Japan: Jamaican gymnast Danusia Francis’ Olympic dream suffered a major shock after she suffered a knee injury, which has ruled her out of the artistic gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Francis, who first announced the news...
TOKYO, Japan: In 2016, then 19-year-old Jaheel Hyde seemingly had the world at his fingertips. With each cleared barrier and purposeful stride on the track, the 400m hurdler seemed to be darting closer to fulfilling the lofty expectations that was...
TOKYO, Japan: For a number of Jamaicans living in Tokyo, the arrival of the rescheduled Olympic Games has provided an opportunity to get a glimpse of what things used to be like before the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to connect with their...
President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) Christopher Samuda has welcomed the decision by the International Olympic Committee to relax its position on athlete activism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. He, however, encourages that the...
American track and field officials are hoping to have star sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson available for the 4x100m at this month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo after she was slapped with a one-month suspension for testing positive for cannabis at the...
Legendary coach Stephen Francis has warned that sprinter Elaine Thompson Herah is in the best shape of her career, heading into the National Senior Championships, which gets under way inside the National Stadium today. Thompson Herah, the reigning...
