PARIS, France: JAMAICA’S PARIS Olympic campaign ended in frustration and disappointment yesterday at the Stade de France, with no additions to the six medals the country had accumulated headed into the competition’s final day. That frustration was...
PARIS, France: HAVING BEEN finally cemented in Olympic history for Jamaica, Olympic bronze medallist Chelsea Hammond-Ross hopes that she played her part in helping to pioneer Jamaica’s emergence in field events. Hammond-Ross was awarded a bronze...
PARIS, France: NOT MANY can say that they are an Olympian at age 18. That experience makes the British Virgin Islands’ Adaejah Hodge optimistic. Hodge’s first Olympic Games saw her go the semi-finals of the women’s 200 metres. It was the second...
HAVING GROWN from her first Olympic experience in her first major global senior championship, Alana Reid believes that the foundation has been set for a promising future. Reid was part of a young Jamaican 4x100-metre women’s relay team that...
Paris France: JAMAICA CARVED a piece of history at the Stade de France yesterday with the country first medals at the Paris Olympics breaking glass ceilings in the field. It was also the end of Jamaica’s 16-year hold on the Olympic 100-metre women’...
Paris, France: WITH LITTLE niggles now behind him, Oblique Seville says he is confident about what he can do in the men’s 100 metres today. Seville cruised to victory in 9.99 seconds inside the Stade de France at the Paris Olympics yesterday to...
Paris, France: JOSH KIRLEW’S first Olympic moment may not have lasted as long as he would have liked, but he is appreciative of the year he has had and optimistic about the future. Kirlew finished fifth in the first round of the men’s 100-metre...
IT HAS been a long, hard career for judoka Ashley McKenzie, who finally got to wear the Jamaican colours at his fourth Olympic Games. Now, after finishing in the round of 16 in Paris, McKenzie contemplates his future and how he wants to impact the...
COMMONWEALTH GAMES gold medallist Lamara Distin continued to break new ground in her indoor campaign, extending her own national indoor high jump record at the Tiger Paw Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina, today. Distin, who established then...
BRIANA WILLIAMS says she is seeing early signs of improvement even after what was her first competitive race as a member of Titans track club. Williams opened her 2023 campaign with a 7.22-second win in the 60m at the Camperdown Classic yesterday...
DWAYNE PAGON and David Goldsmith were among the victors as the inaugural Downey Tennis Classic continued at the Tryall Sports Club in Hanover yesterday. Yesterday’s second day saw Pagon defeat Mackaiba Thomas in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 in the men’s...
WITH ADDED motivation and improved technique, mixed martial artist Imran ‘Fyah’ Hall says that he is targeting nothing less than a gold medal at this year’s Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico. Hall, who competes in the lightweight...
THE JAMAICA Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) is currently examining ways to incorporate athletes in the process of creating and modifying anti-doping rules in a move that sports medicine specialist Dr Paul Wright believes is a progressive step in the...
Head of the Hugh Shearer Labour Studies Institute at the University of the West Indies Open Campus Danny Roberts says that national football players should form a union to mediate and address their concerns in light of the present situation between...
If Jamaica qualifies an ice hockey team to the Winter Olympics, September 8, 2019 will be regarded as a key moment in the programme’s history. Jamaica’s senior men’s ice hockey team, which captured the LATAM Cup Championship for the first time in...
