Published:Monday | September 14, 2015 | 7:05 PMDania Bogle
Practice is the key ingredient for success, says women's 100m hurdles World champion, Danielle Williams.Twenty-two-year-old Williams, the World University Games champion, surprised the world and herself when she beat the field to win the gold medal...
Published:Tuesday | September 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
After being blacklisted by various sponsors and athletics meeting organisers for the better part of two years, Paul Doyle, the agent of World Championships medallists Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, is hoping the pair can revive their reputations...
Published:Monday | August 31, 2015 | 6:22 PMDania Bogle
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA), Rudolph Speid, says the success of the island's players at the CAZOVA Under-19 Championships on the weekend is the reward of a decision to invest in the sport's youngest."We decided to invest...
Published:Sunday | August 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
WHILE Jamaicans celebrated the triumphs of the country's athletes at the 15th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Athletics,...
Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
All eyes will be on Jamaica's Elaine Thompson in the women's 200m at this World Championships in Athletics in Beijing.Thompson is being touted as the female Bolt - meaning Usain Bolt - Jamaica's sprint sensation who holds...
Published:Wednesday | August 12, 2015 | 5:13 PMDania Bogle
TWO weeks before the biggest event on its calendar for 2015, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is in turmoil, as it faces not only external threat, but accusations of betrayal from its own athletes.Last week, British...
Published:Tuesday | August 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
DR Herb Elliott, a Jamaican former member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Anti-doping Panel, has come out in staunch defence of the beleaguered organisation following the latest series of allegations of mishandling...
Published:Sunday | July 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia: HEAD coach of Jamaica's team to the 9th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth Championships (WYC) has blamed a lack of preparation post March's Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships for the national...
Published:Sunday | July 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
Cali is a city of two million inhabitants, almost as many as in all of Jamaica.In Jamaica, or at least in Kingston, no matter how far 'uptown' you go, a depressed community is never too far away.Not so in Cali. Here, there is a clear line between...
Published:Tuesday | July 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
When one hears the word Peru, it can conjure up images of indigenous peoples in multicoloured woollen dresses, Spanish conquistadors, and Machu Picchu - that charming ode to a higher power perched high in the Andes...
Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
There is a popular Jamaican expression usually used to describe a poorly supported event: 'three men and a dog'. Well, on Friday night, I saw four dogs - and a man - on a bicycle.It was a gimmick of course, a creative way Cali natives have of...
Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia:Winning gold, rather than going after a world youth record, was uppermost in Christopher Taylor's mind on Friday night.Taylor won the Boys' 400 metres at the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth...
Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia:JAMAICA'S medal tally remained at one after yesterday's penultimate evening of competition at the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations World Youth Championships at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, here.Junelle...
Published:Friday | July 17, 2015 | 7:40 PMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia:JAMAICA'S 200-metre sprinters will hope to do better than their 100m counterparts on the penultimate day of action at the 9th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth Championships at the Pascual Guerrero...
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Taylor delivered as expected in the boy's 400m at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Colombia this evening, winning gold in a world leading 45.27 seconds. Taylor was challenged in the final 150 metres...
Published:Thursday | July 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
I did some research on Cali before arriving ... what to do, where to go, what to see, and, of course, what to eat.No experience abroad is complete without a taste of the local cuisine. You don't have to like it, but at least don't leave without...
Published:Thursday | July 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia: NOT in more than a decade has Jamaica seen a youth quarter-miler to match Usain Bolt's speed, but last night at the 9th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth Championships at the Pascual Guerrero...
Published:Wednesday | July 15, 2015 | 7:27 PMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia:IT was hot in Cali yesterday, but Jamaica's performance on day one of the 9th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth Championships at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, was anything but.Of the 17 Jamaicans...
Published:Tuesday | July 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
CALI, Colombia: SEVENTEEN Jamaicans will be in action and by the end of today's first day, four champions should be decided at the ninth IAAF World Youth Championships at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, here.Today's finals include the men's shot put,...
Published:Wednesday | July 1, 2015 | 6:40 PMDania Bogle
WORLD youth leading 400m runner Christopher Taylor of Calabar High headlines a list of 29 athletes -13 boys, 16 girls - named to represent Jamaica at the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth Championships (WYC)...
Published:Wednesday | June 24, 2015 | 11:41 AMDania Bogle
Middle-distance programme struggles to gain paceSOME OF the most celebrated athletes in the world have been middle-distance runners, but these events continue to fail to attract many Jamaican athletes.Ethiopia's Haile Gebreselassie, Mozambique's...
Published:Sunday | June 21, 2015 | 6:34 PMDania Bogle
Hackers have breached the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) website forcing the local governing body to seek options to create a more secure page.JAAA general secretary, Garth Gayle, told The Gleaner yesterday that the association'...
Published:Saturday | June 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
In blistering heat, almost equally oppressive wind, and thick smog, Jamaica's junior and youth athletes were compelled to give of their best on day one of the two-day Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Junior Championships...
Published:Tuesday | June 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
FORMER national 400 metres champion Novlene Williams-Mills has said she still struggles to believe in herself, and that is a challenge she will need to overcome if she is to win an individual medal at future World Championships or Olympic Games.The...
