With just under three weeks to go before the September 15 deadline for entries for the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar, there is still no indication of when or if the Independent Anti Doping Panel will convene in time to decide potential...
When John Azar was elected as president of Tennis Jamaica in early May of this year, it was the culmination of a four-year campaign challenging the organisation’s leadership and practices. Four months since then, he has been spearheading the...
Waterhouse’s title defence got off to a slow start as they were held to a 1-1 draw with Olympic Gardens in their Zone A encounter of the JFF Women’s Premier League on Saturday at the Drewsland Stadium. Although Waterhouse had the better of play in...
Jamaica’s junior swimmers got off to a rough start in the pool as the FINA Junior World Championships began at the DUNA Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday. Zaneta Alvaranga and Sabrina Lyn started their World Junior Championships in the women’s...
Jamaica’s badminton players will have little time to dwell on their Pan American Games experience. Gareth Henry, Samuel Ricketts, and Katherine Wynter, who all competed in Lima along with Alana Bailey, look to increase their chances of qualifying...
When an athlete has accomplished all that he can as a junior, it’s not a matter of if he will make the jump to the next level, but when. For young Taekwondo athlete Brandon Sealy, when the decision came to him to compete as either a junior or a...
As the curtain came down on the Under-19 Lacrosse World Championships in Peterborough, Canada, on Saturday, the Jamaican women’s Under-19 team looked back on the experience with much appreciation and pride as the first Caribbean participants to...
It was far from the Pan American Games that Christopher Binnie had in mind. The Jamaican and Caribbean number one was hoping to build upon his silver medal at the Pan American Squash Championships last August in Cayman, which gave him automatic...
Jamaican Olympian Alia Atkinson will have one less thing to worry about next year. The national record holder will be on the plane heading to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics with 12 months to spare, after winning gold in the 100m breaststroke at the...
The Jamaican squash team will look back on their Pan American performances as encouraging, but will harbour regret on what could have been, if results and fortune had gone their way. The disappointment of leaving results on the table is something...
The last two weeks have been eye-opening for the ladies of the under-19 Jamaican lacrosse team. They have faced the best the world has to offer and although they have been outclassed at times, the team has managed to gain valuable experience...
Michael Gunning’s summer has ended with a new lease on his competitive life. Despite not getting the results that he desired in the Pan American Games, the Jamaican swimmer is in a more relaxed and positive mood than he was a month ago. When he...
It is likely that Michael Hector will not play competitive football again until January 2020. The 27-year-old Jamaican international will remain at Chelsea for at least the remainder of 2019 after a proposed permanent move to championship side...
The competitive nature of Sion Brinn has not left him since he retired from swimming long ago. He just found a new avenue in which to continue to keep the flag flying for Jamaica. The former Jamaican Olympian competed in his 2019 CrossFit Games...
Although the outcome wasn’t what the Reggae Girlz wanted, there were still positives that could be taken from their two week experience in Peru at the Pan American Games. That was the sentiment expressed by Jamaican midfielder Sashana Campbell, who...
By his expectations, when Yona Knight-Wisdom was asked to grade his Pan American Games campaign out of 10, he gave it a solid eight. If he had managed to medal in the 3m springboard final on Sunday, it would have been a nine. If he had won the 3m...
First Vice-president of the Jamaica Olympic Association Nelson ‘Chris’ Stokes was on the phone to Minister of Sport Olivia Grange requesting tickets to the Independence Grand Gala. She ended the conversation with some unexpected news for the four-...
President of the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ), Martin Lyn, has called for more backing for Jamaica’s local divers. Speaking with The Gleaner recently on the heels of Yona Knight-Wisdom’s historic silver medal in the one metre...
The Jamaica Hockey Federation has released the names of the 61-member training squad to represent Jamaica in next year’s Junior Pan American Hockey Championships. The squad consists of 30 players called for the men’s squad, including six, reserves...
Jamaica’s medal tally at the Pan American Games increased to two on Thursday evening as diver Yona Knight-Wisdom took home silver in the 1m springboard event at the aquatic centre in Lima, Peru. The 24-year-old Knight-Wisdom improved on his top...
Boxer Ricardo Brown recorded Jamaica’s first medal as the Pan American Games continued in Lima, Peru, yesterday. The 29-year-old Brown scored bronze in the men’s super heavyweight (91+kg) event despite losing his semi-final bout to Colombian...
Toni-Ann Williams was finished with gymnastics. Her Achilles tendon was ruptured in February, while competing in her final season with the University of California Berkeley, bringing a cruel end to her collegiate career. She called her family and...
Jamaican Gymnast Danusia Francis finished in the top 10 in Jamaica’s first gymnastics final as the Pan American Games continued in Lima, Peru, yesterday. The 25-year-old Francis finished seventh in the women’s all round final with a total score of...
While the nation celebrates its 57th anniversary of Emancipation on Thursday, in the city of Peterborough, Canada, Jamaica’s Under-19 Women’s lacrosse team will make history of its own; it will be the first team from the Caribbean to compete in...
The next time that you’ll see Justin Burrowes, he will be starting life in college competing against quality teams from across the United States. Beyond that, probably on the professional circuit competing against the best players in the world. But...
