Gymnast Danusia Francis is on the road to recovery from a debilitating knee injury that compromised her performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, in July. Surgery has repaired the damage and Francis faces a month on crutches with...
SHERICKA JACKSON believes her switch to the 100m and 200m has put her true athletic ability on display. In an interview posted on Monday on the World Athletics webpage, Jackson surmised that her potential went unnoticed because she ran the 400...
Jacqueline Cowan, president of the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA), hopes that the nation will be represented in beach volleyball at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Cowan believes it is possible that despite a COVID-19-...
Olympian Alia Atkinson pulled in two wins on the latest leg of the International Swimming League (ISL). As the series continued in Naples, Italy, Atkinson triumphed in both the 50m and the 100m breaststroke events. It was her third such double of...
ALIA ATKINSON may be about to retire from competitive swimming, but she still craves peak performance. Atkinson is currently engaged in the International Swimming League (ISL) in Napoli, Italy, and is aiming to get close to her World short course...
Like schoolboy football, its counterpart netball competitions were not held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic but Keith Wellington, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), says his organisation has every intention...
ISSA President Keith Wellington is expecting widespread participation in the DaCosta Cup and Manning Cup football competitions this year. Entries close on Friday, and early indications suggest that most schools will be in action. Asked about the...
When evergreen Merlene Ottey clocked the last of the 67 sub-11 seconds 100m races on August 30, 2000, little Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was just 13. That race in Thessaloniki, Greece, entrenched Ottey’s position as the leading producer of times under...
THOUGH HE came out on the losing end, Jamaica’s Leon Bailey has made a bright start to his career at Aston Villa Football Club. His skill, pace and industry have impressed football coach and analyst, Andrew Price, who believes Bailey will wreak...
Olympic discus finalist Shadae Lawrence and her twin sister Shardia will both be training at home in Jamaica. Shadae will be strengthening her coaching link with throws expert Julian Robinson and Shardia, the 2019 NCAA triple jump champion, will...
Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson Herah is just 0.05 away from the 100m world record, but she said yesterday that the 200m world record might be easier to break. Speaking on the eve of the 2021 Wanda Diamond League finale in Zürich,...
When Jamaica College (JC) secured its 30th hold on the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup in 2019, no one knew that COVID-19 would wipe out the following season. Now, as JC readies its squad for a title defence in 2021, the mood at 189 Old Hope Road is one...
Motivation will be the key ingredient Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will need to keep going up to the 2024 Olympics. That is the indication from 2021 Olympic track and field team manager Ian Forbes and JAMALCO Track Club founder Dennis May. Speaking on...
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment lead a 12-strong contingent of Jamaicans into battle in Zurich, Switzerland, for the final Diamond League meet of the season, September 8 and 9. The group includes Stephenie-Ann McPherson...
Jamaica could soon have the world records in the women’s 100m, 200m, and the 4x100m relay events. So says Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, who helped Jamaica to win the first of its five World Athletics Championships sprint relay titles 30 years ago....
World Athletics U-20 Championships discus throw runner-up Ralford Mullings will soon take up a scholarship at Arizona State University in the United States. Caniggia Raynor, who coached Mullings at Kingston College for the last four years, is...
The 100m hurdles victory by Ackera Nugent at the World Athletics U-20 Championships is a sign that Jamaica’s future in the event is secure. That is the view held by Gillian Russell-Love, the first Jamaican to win the junior crown, who also believes...
Garriel White is looking for a personal best (PB) in the 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. White won heat two of the event which had its opening round yesterday, finishing in 58.65 seconds, to advance to...
Michael Vassell, the godfather of the local throws movement, and Tokyo Olympics finalist Chad Wright have both picked discus prospect Ralford Mullings to do well at the World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, this week. In fact, Vassell and...
Maurice Wignall, the dean of Jamaican sprint hurdlers, says the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) was right to pick Hansle Parchment, Ronald Levy and Damion Thomas for the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan....
When Karsten Warholm of Norway broke the 29-year-old world record in the 400m hurdles, he affirmed a prediction made two years ago by Jamaican coach Okeile Stewart. However, even though Warholm has won the last two World Athletics Championships...
Jamaica’s medal winning streak in the women’s 400-metre hurdles could continue in Tokyo when the Olympic track and field programme begins. This is according to Okeile Stewart, who coached Rushell Clayton to third place at the 2019 World...
Hansle Parchment knows what’s at stake in Tokyo. That’s the assessment from his coach, Fitz Coleman, who says the tall 31-year-old 110m hurdler wants to perform when Athletics at the Olympic Games get under way later this week. Parchment is...
Five years ago, Fedrick Dacres opened Jamaica’s track and field campaign at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He will play the same role today, but he is no longer a naive newcomer. Instead, Dacres is one of the finest discus throwers in the...
With Jamaica’s top male quarter-milers suffering injuries this year, the nation’s 4x400m relay effort at the Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, may need reinforcements. If the search for speed locates 400m hurdler Jaheel Hyde, he will answer the call....
