Former Commonwealth and Pan-Am Games 100m champion Lerone Clarke retired a few years ago, but his love for track and field continues. As a result, Clarke has launched Ace Track, a club he hopes will help athletes compete with confidence. The new...
Satoshi Takashima is leaving Jamaica on January 7. With his time as Jamaica's national table tennis coach at an end, he recommends four key upgrades on how the game is developed here. On top of his list is consistent training for young players and...
Former national senior women's football team goalkeeper Chantelle McLennon is thrilled that the Reggae Girlz have qualified for next year's FIFA Women World Cup in France.The Girlz booked their ticket to France by beating Panama in the third-place...
Simon Tomlinson will be back in competition later this month as he starts his drive for better results at the 2019 Caribbean Table Tennis Championships. Tomlinson expects more match play to lift him towards his goal of a medal when that tournament...
Michael Dyke, coach of the successful Edwin Allen Compre-hensive High School track and field programme, believes the new ISSA recruiting regulations are tight. However, while he feels the new rules will probably affect schools who recruit widely, he...
If the Jamaican athletics team to the third Youth Olympic Games reports in good shape, four medals could be within its grasp. The best hopes for glory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the host city of the Games, rest with Antonio Watson, Ackera Nugent,...
Christopher Marsh hopes to crown his long career with a medal when the 60th Caribbean Senior Table Tennis Championships begin at the National Arena on Sunday.The tall left-hander says that he will retire from competition after the championships,...
Jamaica is ready for next week's staging for the Caribbean Senior Table Tennis Championships. Godfrey Lothian, president of the game's local association, says that he feels good about preparations to host the tournament, which starts on September 23...
Jamaica has increased its presence in the World Championship discus final from one thrower in 2015 to two in 2017. Buoyed by a productive season where he found new levels of distance and consistency, Chad Wright foresees that number doubling when...
Jamaica battled their way to three medals at the Caribbean Region Table Tennis Mini and Pre-Cadet Championship in the Dominican Republic earlier this week.The girls' Under-11 and -13 teams were one win each away from gold, with Tsenaye Lewis and...
Leg injuries have forced Jamaica's hurdler supreme Omar McLeod off track. McLeod, the World and Olympic champion in the 110-metre hurdlers, has suffered injuries throughout the outdoor season and last raced in July. Though he will miss this week's...
Jamaica has suggested two measures designed to raise the profile of regional table tennis. According to Table Tennis Jamaica president Godfrey Lothian, proposals for a regional club league and a table tennis college were made at recent meetings of...
Jamaica will host the Caribbean Region Table Tennis Championships next month, and plans for the staging are well under way. With five weeks to go to the September 23 - 29 event, Table Tennis Jamaica president Godfrey Lothian said his organisation...
Two young Jamaicans are in the Dominican Republic to attend a regional table tennis camp.Nevaeh Scott of Portmore Missionary Preparatory and Azizi Johnson of Jesse Ripol Primary have made the trip with their coaches, Richard Davidson and former...
Two young Jamaicans will be in the Dominican Republic on August 20 to attend a regional table tennis camp.Nevaeh Scott of Portmore Missionary Preparatory School and Azizi Johnson of Jesse Ripol Primary School have made the trip with their coaches...
Natoya Goule is now enjoying the best season of her track and field career, but she almost walked away from the sport in 2017.In an interview appearing on the IAAF website yesterday, the new national 800-metre record holder said that an iron...
When Keanan Dols swam his way into the 200 metres individual medley final at the recent Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, he broke a Jamaican record that had stood for 34 years. Andrew Phillips, who set the old mark in the 1984 Olympic...
Kemoy Campbell, Jamaica's long distance dynamo, produced a promising run over 5000 metres last weekend in London. His season's best time - 13 minutes 23.73 seconds - has brightened his outlook about upcoming races....
The Jamaican team is coming home from the World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, with a fistful of four gold medals, but some observers believe better performances are possible. Among them is David Riley, president of the Jamaica Track...
Two-time Jamaica long jump champion Ramone Bailey is looking forward to this weekend's Athletics World Cup. According to his Eagles Track Club coach David Riley, that is because it takes him back to London, where he has unfinished business from last...
With a Commonwealth Games silver medal and a big win over a great field in Germany last week, discus thrower Traves Smikle is a man on the move. While he is pleased with himself, he is searching for the consistency that will confirm him as one of...
In form, Anastasia Le-Roy continued her fine 2018 season yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts, with a breakthrough run over 200m. Le-Roy, the Commonwealth Games 400m runner-up, showed impressive sprint speed to win at half the distance in a personal...
Today's staging for the Kingston and St Andrew Table Tennis Association's Women's Cup could feature some fierce battles. Though nine-time national champion Yvonne Foster isn't competing, a host of future prospects will match shots at the Excelsior...
After a bout with injury, Jamaica's leading distance runner, Kemoy Campbell, is raring to go.Campbell, a World Championships 5000 metres finalist in London last year, is training hard for an outdoor debut in Kingston at the Jamaica Invitational. The...
When the finalists line up for the boys' 4x400 metres at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships on July 15, the United States of America will be the favourite as usual. However, after seeing brilliant high-school running at last weekend's Penn Relays...
