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Published:Sunday | August 27, 2023 | 12:10 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: AFTER SEVEN years, the Jamaican men’s 4x100 metres drought has ended, thanks to the emergence and evolution of their young sprinters. And while the women’s team secured yet another medal in the trophy case, it may have come at a...

Published:Sunday | August 27, 2023 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: FORMER WORLD long jump champion Tajay Gayle has come a long way after two injured-plagued years. After getting back on the podium in Budapest, he feels he is slowly getting back to the version of himself that won him the world...

Published:Sunday | August 27, 2023 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: THE KEY to Adelle Tracey’s strong World Athletics Championship campaign this year is having a whole lot of fun. She will certainly be doing a lot of that today when she lines up in her first World Championship final in the women’...

Published:Sunday | August 20, 2023 | 12:12 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, Hungary: THROUGHOUT HIS journey, spanning many 400-metre hurdles competitive races, national champion Roshawn Clarke has trusted the wisdom of coach Okeile Stewart. Now, as he settles into making his World Athletics Championships debut,...

Published:Sunday | August 20, 2023 | 12:10 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, Hungary: IT SEEMS Ackelia Smith has a flair for the dramatic. Twelve months after needing a big jump on her final attempt to qualify for her first World Athletics Championship triple jump final in her Oregon debut, she repeated the same...

Published:Sunday | August 20, 2023 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, Hungary: NOT EVEN the constant stoppages could deter Oblique Seville from delivering a performance that surprised even himself and primed expectations for something special in the men’s 100 metres as Jamaica got their World Athletics...

Published:Sunday | August 20, 2023 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, Hungary FRESHLY MINTED college graduate, Charokee Young, has had to experience the rigours of her first professional season. While the transition has been difficult, Young says that her relentless drive and the experience gained from her...

Published:Sunday | August 20, 2023 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, Hungary: THE OBSTACLES have been plenty and with that Elaine Thompson Herah’s role at these World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, is a little different from the norm. But there are other differences too. The double Olympic...

Published:Thursday | August 17, 2023 | 4:05 PMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BUDAPEST, Hungary: Five-time World Championships 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and 2019 World Championship discus silver medallist Fedrick Dacres have been named team captains for Jamaica's current World Championships team. Fraser...

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2023 | 12:10 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

JAMAICA ATHLETIC Administrative Association (JAAA) president Garth Gayle says better freedom of movement for athletes, increased partnerships and competition are just two things he is hoping to implement in his new role as North American, Central...

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2023 | 12:10 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

WITH LESS than a week to go before the start of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, world 100m hurdles champion and world record holder Tobi Amusan is awaiting a decision from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), regarding an alleged whereabouts...

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2023 | 12:10 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

AFTER A 10-year-long journey at the senior level, national netball goal attacker Shanice Beckford knows the chance of getting back to another Netball World Cup is not guaranteed. It is one of the reasons why taking bronze, the Sunshine Girls’...

Published:Sunday | August 6, 2023 | 12:08 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

IN A game of razor-thin margins, Jamaica kept it close and were within range to make history. But fortune did not smile on the Sunshine Girls this time as the wait for a first Netball World Cup title will go on after losing to world number one...

Published:Sunday | August 6, 2023 | 12:08 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

GROWTH, MATURITY, belief and faith. These are among the many factors that national midfielder Tiffany Cameron attributes to Jamaica’s historic run at the Women’s World Cup, a run she believes can go even further. Jamaica advanced to the round of 16...

Published:Sunday | July 30, 2023 | 12:11 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

ON THE brink of Jamaica’s first title, national senior women’s volleyball coach Ricardo Chong is hoping to complete an unbeaten run to glory when they contest the final of the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association (CAZOVA) Senior Caribbean...

Published:Sunday | July 30, 2023 | 12:10 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

Jubilant fans at The Summit where Jamaican fans were gathered yesterday for breakfast and Women’s World Cup football, while buoyed by the Reggae Girlz’s history-making win against Panama yesterday, are also adamant that the Jamaican women are not...

Published:Sunday | July 30, 2023 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

In the absence of captain Khadija Shaw, national defender Allyson Swaby took the mantle of leadership on the field and delivered an early Emancipation Day gift to Jamaica, making history in the process and putting them in control over their own...

Published:Sunday | July 23, 2023 | 12:12 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

WHILE FIVE-TIME world 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce showed consistency in winning her second 100m race of the season, it was national shot put champion Rajindra Campbell who made headlines in a record-breaking performance at the Meeting De...

Published:Sunday | July 23, 2023 | 12:12 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

TO NO one’s surprise national senior women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson has emphasised how instrumental captain Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw will be in the Reggae Girlz’s chances of making it out of Group F at the Women’s World Cup. But Donaldson is...

Published:Sunday | July 23, 2023 | 12:12 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

FOR THE third time this season, world 200m champion Shericka Jackson and United States 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson will lock horns in a potential world championship 100m final preview at the Diamond League meet in London today. Jackson...

Published:Sunday | July 23, 2023 | 12:11 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

As Jamaica’s second consecutive Women’s World Cup campaign begins after a build-up that has seen focus on the field and turbulence off it, national senior head coach Lorne Donaldson has not only embraced the demands of leadership but has vowed that...

Published:Sunday | July 16, 2023 | 12:12 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

SETTING NO limits for herself where the 100-metre world record is concerned, World Championship 100m silver medallist Shericka Jackson is hoping to continue along her path towards a 100m title when she headlines a strong group of Jamaicans...

Published:Sunday | July 16, 2023 | 12:11 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

BACK TO full fitness, two-time national 1500-metre champion Aisha Praught-Leer says she is relishing the opportunity to make her return to the World Athletics Championships with a new lease on life two years after injury threatened to call time on...

Published:Sunday | July 16, 2023 | 12:06 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

AFTER WHAT he calls a successful camp in Amsterdam, national senior women’s head coach Lorne Donaldson says the focus is on being tactically prepared for when the real business starts. Donaldson says he is also encouraged by the way the Reggae...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:16 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter

NATIONAL SENIOR men’s head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson is charging his team to play with the right intensity and balance as they take on Guatemala in their Concacaf Gold Cup quarterfinal clash this afternoon at 4:06 at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio...

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