Published:Wednesday | May 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
Vice-chairman of the Premier League Clubs Association and Professional Football Association of Jamaica, Carvel Stewart, yesterday expressed no surprise at the arrests of several FIFA members on charges of corruption.In fact, he said, it was "a long...
Published:Tuesday | May 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
Reigning Olympic 100m and 200m silver medallist, Yohan Blake, may return to action at the end of the month, but his long-term focus will be to medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil."Everything's going well. He's training. We hope...
Published:Tuesday | May 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
NOT for the first time, serious controversy surrounds the matter of a Jamaican athlete representing the country at an international competition.The question now is of accountability and possible censure for double world sprint champion, Shelly-Ann...
Published:Tuesday | May 5, 2015 | 4:31 PMDania Bogle
It is said that if you want different results, you have to do something differently.That seems to be the new mantra adopted by Jamaica's Sunshine Girls as they bid to win netball's world title for the first time.As the team prepares for the next...
Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
TWO-time Olympic Games gold medallist and vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Lord Sebastian Coe, believes the future of Caribbean athletics is bright and thatit behooves the sport's world governing body...
Published:Sunday | April 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
Jamaica's athletes continued to improve on their medal count, adding 16 medals - including nine gold and six silver and one bronze - to bring their tally to 44 at press time on yesterday's third day of action at the 44th Carifta Games at the Silver...
Published:Tuesday | March 31, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
Psychological research has indicated that, when the rules of fair play and sportsmanship are applied, participation in sports helps to enhance character. However, over the five days of the recent Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association ISSA/...
Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 6:06 PMDania Bogle
THREE of Jamaica's biggest names in sprinting all ran together in one heat of the 100 metres at the 1992 Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Boys' Athletic Championships at the National Stadium.Disgraced former national 200m champion,...
Published:Sunday | March 22, 2015 | 6:16 PMDania Bogle
It is close on 40 years since a Corporate Area school won the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Girls' Championship title.The Queens School, which boasted the future Olympic 200m silver medallist, Grace Jackson, was the last Kingston...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 2:50 PMDania Bogle
The last thing many Jamaican fans of athletics would have remembered of D'wayne Extol was his anchoring Wolmer's Boys School to a historic win in Champs 100 at the National Stadium in March 2010. The sprinter recently returned to Jamaica after...
Published:Monday | March 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
THERE'S ONE thing that can be said about Jamaicans ... they love a fighter, a determined spirit and perseverance. No more is that demonstrated than inside the National Stadium during an athletics meet.No matter the athlete - local or foreign, school...
Published:Sunday | March 1, 2015 | 7:24 PMDania Bogle
Plans are in the pipeline to commission a bust in the likeness of former North America Central America and Caribbean Association (NACAC) president and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Area Representative, Neville 'Teddy'...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2015 | 12:32 PMDania Bogle
1. 2010: Men's Clubs and Institutions 4x400m - Two years after setting the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, China afire, with record-breaking sprints in the men's 100m, 200m, and 4x100m at the Olympic Games, Usain Bolt, returns to the...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2015 | 5:22 PMDania Bogle
Teddy McCook is a name that has become synonymous with the Gibson Relays.This year, organisers of the one-day relay carnival, now in its 39th year, decided to honour that association and rename the event the Gibson McCook Relays....
