PARIS, France While Jamaica’s Paris Olympic campaign was filled with challenges and misfortune, Jamaica Olympic Association President Christopher Samuda said that there is still much to celebrate, reflect on, and learn from when the Olympic Games...
PARIS, France: Romaine Beckford’s first major global championship final was not just a landmark moment for high jump in Jamaica, but a testament to how far he has come in two years, and how much he believes he can still grow to reach the levels of...
PARIS, FRANCE: IT MAY not have been the storybook ending he would have liked, but given the circumstances of the last two months, Jaydon Hibbert is just thankful that in his first Olympic final, he gave his all. His all saw him finish just outside...
PARIS, France: Olympic Games medallists Beverley McDonald, Chelsea Hammond Ross and Kaliese Spencer Carter can now begin the celebrations and fanfare they were denied years ago although for them these celebrations will be bittersweet. The trio...
PARIS, France: In a season plagued by injuries, Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell made a triumphant Olympic debut, securing his first major global championship medal on Thursday. Broadbell copped bronze in the men’s 110m hurdles final in a season’s best...
In his second major global championship final, under-20 400-metre hurdles world record holder Roshawn Clarke is more focused on the execution of a perfect race rather than any pressure to win Jamaica’s first medal in the event in 20 years. Clarke...
For the second straight Olympic Games, World Championships shot put silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd was narrowly edged out of the final. But her disappointment of again missing out on a final that she felt capable of making was overshadowed...
PARIS, France: When Jaydon Hibbert takes the runway for his first Olympic Games final this afternoon at 1:13 p.m. Jamaica time, he knows that he will not take the moment for granted, considering that his debut was moments away from not happening...
PARIS, France: A SHOT at a hat-trick of titles and one at ending a 12-year medal drought will take centre stage as the men’s 110-metre hurdles final and the women’s 400m hurdles final take place today to close day eight Olympic athletics from the...
PARIS, France: Not many can say they made two Olympic finals on their debut. National long jump champion Ackelia Smith will have that distinction when she lines up for the women’s long jump final this afternoon at 1:10 p.m. at the Stade de France...
Rojé Stona’s Olympic début will be unforgettable, and the most historic for Jamaica in an Olympics where the field has taken centre stage. Stona claimed Jamaica’s first major global men’s discus title, in an Olympic record performance of 70.00m to...
PARIS, France: Music production brought Wayne Smith from Kingston to Switzerland, then to France 13 years ago. But it has been the food that has provided him with his own contribution to connect Jamaica to France, which has been cemented by...
PARIS, France: YOU CAN forgive Ralford Mullings for being a bit nervous in his Olympic debut. In a year where his excellence has taken him all the way to the biggest stage, he hopes to channel those nerves into strength. Mullings, along with...
PARIS, France: Wayne Pinnock ended Jamaica’s near-three-decade wait for another Olympic medal in the men’s long jump on Tuesday, earning a silver to increase the island’s medal tally at the Paris Games to four. Pinnock’s leap of 8.36 metres in the...
PARIS, France: JAYDON HIBBERT’S immense talent gets another chance to show itself at a global event, this time at the biggest one. Hibbert, though a bona fide star in the triple jump, is yet to announce himself at the world stage, with injury...
PARIS, France In her Olympic Games debut, national 400 metres champion and record holder Nickisha Pryce was measured in her approach and only focused on the present as she began her bid for gold in Paris yesterday. Pryce secured passage to the semi...
Paris, France: In a landmark moment for Jamaican field events, three men will vie for the Olympic discus title as national champion Traves Smikle, Ralford Mullings and Roje Stona advanced to tomorrow’s final after strong qualifying performances as...
PARIS, France: Janieve Russell has seen the evolution and accelerated rise of the women’s 400 metres hurdles since her Olympic debut in 2016. With the great depth and races more competitive than ever, Russell hopes that she remains a mainstay in...
PARIS, France A crestfallen Oblique Seville lamented the flare-up of his groin injury at the worst possible time, which halted his charge for his first major global individual medal. Seville finished eighth in 9.91 seconds in a final that saw all...
Paris, France: Jamaica’s eight-year men’s 100m major global title drought appeared to have ended under the lights in Paris, France, yesterday. But when the dust settled, by the barest of margins, American Noah Lyles claimed the ultimate prize....
PARIS, France Two-time national champion Andrew Hudson knows of Jamaica’s recent barren run of medals in the 200 metres. In his second major global championship and in his Olympic debut, he hopes that he can help to turn the tide back in Jamaica’s...
PARIS, France Determined to leave nothing back, diver Yona Knight-Wisdom hopes his final Olympic Games will be a memorable one as he competes in the three-metre springboard preliminary round tomorrow morning at 3 a.m. Jamaica time at the Centre...
PARIS, France Basking in the glow of becoming her country’s first ever Olympic Games champion, St Lucia’s Julien Alfred was thankful for the foundation that Jamaica gave her on the road to title success. Alfred claimed the women’s 100 metres title...
Paris, France: DECORATED SHELLY-ANN Fraser-Pryce’s last Olympic individual medal chase will see her in a fierce battle for another major final appearance as the opening day of track and field concluded at the Stade de France in Paris, France,...
PARIS, France: For eight years, Jamaica has stood atop the podium after the final of the men’s 110-metre hurdles at the Olympic Games. With a chance for a historic hat-trick looming large reigning Olympic champion Hansle Parchment believes that a...
