Published:Sunday | September 18, 2016 | 5:35 PMHubert Lawrence
Sponsorship is a major challenge for the development of football in the parish of St Catherine. Despite that, the parish is doing well. That's the word from Peter Reid, president of the St Catherine Football Association.Reid says football is on the...
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica's Sunshine Girls made a positive start to the third and final match in their netball tour of New Zealand yesterday. However, their hosts accelerated to complete a 3-0 series sweep when the teams met in the Energy Events Arena in Rotorua. In...
Published:Friday | September 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Several teams from St Catherine have made bright starts to the 2016 ISSA/FLOW Manning Cup, catching the eye of St Catherine Football Association president Peter Reid.Jonathan Grant, St Catherine High and St Jago High have all won their first two...
Published:Thursday | September 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Donovan Bailey of Canada, the Olympic 100 metres champion in 1996, says the world records set by Usain Bolt will stand for a long time.Bailey, who set a world record to win his Olympic gold medal, says the tall Jamaica has set high standards for his...
Published:Wednesday | September 14, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica put in an improved showing in the second game of a three-match netball series against hosts New Zealand. However, the Sunshine Girls were defeated 38-61 yesterday (Tuesday night Jamaica time) at the Central Energy Trust Arena in Palmerston...
Published:Sunday | September 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Glen Laing, football coach at St Jago High School, says good student-athletes are easier to coach.Laing, who guided St Jago to the Super Cup and Walker Cup semi-finals last season, is challenging his colleagues to emphasise academics with their...
Published:Tuesday | September 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica is prominent in a recently published list of world records for lanes in the men's 200m and 4x100m. Led by Usain Bolt, the Caribbean island has the lion's share of the fastest times per lane in statistics appearing this week on the...
Published:Thursday | September 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
A 12-member Jamaican netball squad will soon be soon its way to New Zealand for a three-match tour starting on September 11. Led by four ladies who represented Jamaica in last year's Netball World Cup, this squad will leave the island tomorrow and...
Published:Tuesday | August 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
It may have gone unnoticed, but Nathon Allen has joined Davian Clarke and Javon Francis as a 4x400-metre maestro.Running in the heats at the recently concluded Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Allen propelled Jamaica into the final with a...
Published:Tuesday | August 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Almaz Ayana - 29:17.45 WR It came in the morning of the first day of track and field competition in Rio de Janeiro in a race where one of the giants of the sports, Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba, then the world record-holder, was chasing history. Had she...
Published:Tuesday | August 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
It's hard enough to win one Olympic gold medal. Often those who achieve this high honour never have a finer moment in their sporting career. Those who do it twice in the same individual event are a special breed who maintain or exceed the high...
Published:Tuesday | August 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
It's hard to argue with the JAAA's medical-exemption rule now. The incomparable Usain Bolt and new star Elaine Thompson rode the exemption to two gold medals apiece at the recently concluded Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.Though not at her best,...
Published:Monday | August 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Elaine Thompson moved to the forefront of women's sprinting with her gold medals in the just concluded Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.When she crossed the line first in the 100 metres in Rio, her victory vaulted coach Stephen Francis into an...
Published:Saturday | August 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
It has gone largely unnoticed that Usain Bolt’s winning times at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are the slowest he has ever produced in his successful pursuit of 13 individual global championships. Put another way, the Bolt of...
Published:Friday | August 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
With the Olympic gold medal safely tucked away, Omar McLeod will soon get the 110 metres hurdles world record. That's the opinion of Raymond Graham, who coached McLeod in his final year in high school. The veteran sprints and hurdlers instructor...
Published:Thursday | August 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Coach Raymond Graham, who guided Omar McLeod through a triumphant 2013 high-school athletics campaign, is overjoyed for the new Olympic 110-metre hurdles champion.Graham says McLeod's discipline and hard work have paid off and says a key factor of...
Published:Sunday | August 14, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
The 200 metres holds pride of place among the events in which Jamaican women compete at the Olympic Games.Thirty-six years ago, in 1980, Merlene Ottey became the first lady from the island to win an Olympic medal, and she did it with a bronze in the...
Published:Saturday | August 13, 2016 | 3:16 PMHubert Lawrence
The men's 400 metres provided a perfect start to Jamaica's participation in the Olympic Games.Jamaican Arthur Wint upset compatriot and world-record holder Herb McKenley to win the 400m in 1948 at the London Games, and another Jamaican, George...
Published:Thursday | August 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Champion sprinter Yohan Blake has recently shrugged off the nickname 'the Beast', a label he earned because of his relentless hard work in training.Blake, however, isn't the first double Olympic sprint medal winner to bear the nickname. Thirty-six...
Published:Wednesday | August 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
For different but equally sad reasons, Olympic track and field competition will start tomorrow without Jason 'Dadz' Morgan and Hansle Parchment.It begins after a painful reminder, as experienced by swim star Alia Atkinson, that nothing is guaranteed...
Published:Wednesday | August 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica will win 11 medals in Olympic track and field competition. That's the number contained in the final pre-Olympic set of predictions by the respected US publication Track and Field News.The predictions anticipate another Olympic sprint double...
Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are just two of a group of six track and field athletes who hope to win their events for the third time in a row at the Rio Olympics.The others - Poland's Tomasz Majewski, Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba,...
Thirty-six years and eight Olympics have passed since cyclist David Weller made history in 1980 by winning Jamaica's only medal outside of athletics.Breaststroke world champion Alia Atkinson dives into the swimming competition as the 2016 Olympic...
Published:Thursday | August 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Double Olympic gold medal winner, Michael Frater, says Jamaica's 2016 men's sprint team is a strong one with world record potential. Speaking in Kingston last week, Frater described the team as having a lot of experience. The 2008 Olympic 100 metres...
Anneisha McLaughlin-Whilby is excited to be an Olympian. Now 30, the former Holmwood Technical High School standout says it was the only achievement missing from her career.Even though she won't be running an individual event when track and field...
