Published:Sunday | August 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Like he did in the semi-final a couple of hours earlier - when he almost fell on his face but came back to win - sprinting legend Usain Bolt showed that it's not how you start, but how you finish, covering an otherwise miserable...
Published:Sunday | August 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:He saved his 100 metres world title, he saved his legacy, and perhaps he even saved track and field.Usain Bolt's 100m gold- medal run highlighted a hugely productive day for Jamaica at the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing,...
Published:Sunday | August 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
You know what? I think the journalists here covering the World Championships should get some medals as well.Yeah, man!For solo journalists from a country like Jamaica with so may athletes participating, such a demanding and knowledgeable public,...
Published:Sunday | August 23, 2015 | 6:50 PMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:American Justin Gatlin said he 'gave the race away' after losing to Usain Bolt in the final of the men's 100 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, yesterday.Gatlin has gone the better part of two years unbeaten,...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:An amazing fireworks show and some colourful synchronising announced the start of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, yesterday, but the real pyrotechnics will be unleashed today in what is expected to be a scorching men's...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:It's been a rough couple of years for Jamaican sprinting superstar Yohan Blake who suffered two serious injuries in as many years. But, his manager Cubie Seegobin is extremely confident that the 2011 world 100-metre champion will...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
Wow!What a start to the 2015 World Championships.An amazing opening ceremony - especially by World Championships standards - huge crowd inside the Bird's Nest, great action already in the men's 100m as the top dogs sounded their barks ahead of what...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 5:38 PMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:MVP Track Club's head coach Stephen Francis was again left fuming after confirmation arrived that Nesta Carter's entry as a replacement for the injured Kemar Bailey-Cole in the 100m at the World Championships was rejected by the IAAF...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Sprint king Usain Bolt will lead the Jamaican trio completed by Asafa Powell and Nickel Ashmeade into the semi-finals of the men's 100 metres with one eye locked on the final a couple hours later as the IAAF World Championships in...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 5:58 PMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Things didn't exactly go to plan for Jamaica's Danniel Thomas in the women's shot put during yesterday's opening day of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China.Already playing her role in history as Jamaica's first female...
BEIJING, China: The IAAF has turned down an official appeal by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) for Nesta Carter to be added to Jamaica’s 100 m team as a substitute for the injured Kemar Bailey...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 2:57 PMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Rasheed Dwyer has had a strange season. Struggling for form, even at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships at which he finished fifth in the 200m. However, he exploded...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 5:41 PMAndre Lowe
Warren Weir is no stranger to pulling a surprise.In 2012, not many persons expected him to make Jamaica's team to the Olympic Games in London much less win a bronze medal in the 200m there. He would later show it was no fluke with a silver medal...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:It has been confirmed that Jamaica will only be allowed to enter three sprinters in the men's 100m after Nesta Carter's submission as a replacement for the injured Kemar Bailey-Cole was rejected by the IAAF technical delegate at the...
BEIJING, China: It has been revealed that the IAAF rejected Nesta Carter’s application replace the injured Kemar Bailey-Cole in the men's 100m because of a blunder by Jamaican administrators. And Carter's coach, the MVP...
BEIJING, China: The IAAF has rejected Jamaica's application for Nesta Carter to replace the injured Kemar Bailey-Cole in the men's 100m event at the 15th World Championships which gets underway this evening Jamaica time. Jamaican had...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China: It's been almost two months since Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment’s last race but the national 110m hurdles record holder remains positive about his chances heading into the IAAF World Championships in Beijing...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China: With all the talk about a Usain Bolt/Justin Gatlin clash in the 100 metres heading into the 15thIAAF World Championships in Beijing, one can be excused for forgetting that another Jamaican speedster, Asafa Powell, is also in the medal mix...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Usain Bolt is said to be in 9.6 seconds shape heading into the IAAF World Championships, and he'll give the first indication of his conditions on today's opening day of competition at the Bird's Nest in Beijing as shot-putter Danniel...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 6:54 PMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Jamaican quarter-mile standout Davian Clarke, now a coach with the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and the Phillipine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA), says he is hoping to one day work with Jamaican quarter-milers...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Popular dancehall artiste Chi Ching's voice pierced a Nuo Hotel ballroom as the words 'High voltage, high voltage, wire' blared from the speakers as Usain Bolt stepped towards the raised platform to...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
Thursday was Usain Bolt Day in Beijing. Well, there was no official declaration or anything like that, but there might as well have been.Bolt was the toast of the day as he fielded questions from the world's media, talking about everything from...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Team manager Ludlow Watts has rejected Stephen Francis' arguments about the management of Jamaica's training camp ahead of the IAAF World Championships.Francis questioned the usefulness of the camp and blamed the team's management for...
BEIJING, China: Defending double sprint world champion Usain Bolt has rubbished suggestions he may not compete in the 200 m at the 2015 IAAF World Championships here, saying he is now at his best after a shaky start to his season. Speaking to...
Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
BEIJING, China:Coach Stephen Francis yesterday confirmed that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is listed to compete in the 200m at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, will only...
