Tyquendo Tracey, the national 100m champion, is ready to speed in Tokyo, when the Olympic track and field competition begins. Now 28, Tracey has the normal motivation that abides in the mind of international athletes, but there is something else...
The world record in the women’s sprint relay could fall to Jamaica in the upcoming Olympic Games. That expert opinion comes from 2004 Olympic 4x100 gold medallist Sherone Simpson. She believes Jamaica’s top four women – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce,...
Jamaica’s medal-winning streak in the women’s 400m hurdles could continue in Tokyo when the Olympic track and field programme begins. So says Swept Track Club head coach Okeile Stewart, who coached Rushell Clayton to third place at the 2019 World...
Scroll down the 2021 400m hurdles performance list and you’ll see the name Jaheel Hyde in the number seven slot after his personal best of 48.18 seconds at last month’s National Senior Championships (Trials). Hyde plans to prove that ranking is...
Jamaica’s best chance of an Olympic medal in the hurdling events will come in the men’s 110m event. That is the forecast from 1998 Commonwealth 100m hurdles winner Gillian Russell-Love. However, the Olympian ranks Grant Holloway, the American who...
Elaine Thompson Herah will be far more comfortable with the Olympic sprint schedule than she was at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. That’s the insight from 2008 Olympic 100m runner-up Sherone Simpson. She says that rest days between the...
Coaching by MVP Track Club maestro Stephen Francis helped Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce become a super sprinter, and now subtle technical changes have the four-time 100m World champion running faster than ever. The 2008 and 2012 Olympic 100m champion,...
Jamaicans are expecting a big performance from its fast crew of female sprinters at the upcoming Olympics, and 2008 100m silver medallist Sherone Simpson agrees. Simpson can see Jamaica winning two medals in the 100m and two more in the 200m when...
Sprint icons Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are not only role models for the next generation of Jamaican sprinters. American Ronnie Baker and Marie-Josée Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast expressed their admiration for both sprinters in Stockholm,...
Damion Thomas took gold in the 110m hurdles at the last World Athletics Under-20 Championships and the prospects for another medal-winning performance are trending upward. Vashaun Vascianna sparkled on Sunday last week at the National Junior...
When Shericka Jackson crossed the line in second place in the 200 metres on Sunday at the National Senior Championships inside the National Stadium, she completed a rarely accomplished hat-trick. Her time of 21.82 seconds made her the 10th woman in...
After a recent win over a key rival and with her training going well, Natoya Goule is in line for a shot at an Olympic medal in the 800m. A day after she won her event at the National Senior Championships, Goule agreed that a win over top American...
The Tokyo Olympics could be the stage for Jamaica to make history in the 100m hurdles. That’s the opinion of David Riley, head coach at Excelsior High School, who believes that this week’s National Championships will select a very strong crew of...
The final race of the recent NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships revealed a new candidate for Jamaica’s powerful women’s 4x400m squad: Charokee Young. The former Hydel High School captain produced the relay leg of her life to help Texas A...
Discus thrower Roje Stona and high jumper Lamara Distin emerged from last week’s NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon, with silver medals. Both set personal bests in Eugene, with Stona reaching 61.94 metres and Distin clearing 1.90 metres...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and her national 100 metre record of 10.63 seconds have been described as amazing by none other than Dina Asher-Smith, the Briton, who finished second to her in the 100m at the 2019 World Championships. Asher-Smith says the...
Sprint hurdlers Omar McLeod and Megan Tapper will carry Jamaican hopes today in the Florence Golden Gala Diamond League meet. Both will face quality fields as they ready themselves for the National Senior Championships and the Olympic Games in...
The big run by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the third leg of the JOA/JAAA Olympic Destiny Series is proof that the four-time World 100m champion is on the rise. That’s the analysis from her coach, Reynaldo Walcott, who is delighted that the star...
At the same meet where sprint sensation Briana Williams lowered her national under 20 100 metre record to 10.98 seconds, Jamaica’s stocks in the women’s 400 metre hurdles rose significantly. Leading the way was Ronda Whyte, who produced the second...
Shiann Salmon, the 2018 World Under-20 400m hurdles silver-medal winner, had her confidence boosted by a win over an odd distance in Boston on May 23. Salmon won the rarely run 200m hurdles at the adidas Boston Boost Games in the fastest time ever...
Double World Championship relay medallist Roneisha McGregor is one athlete who has made good use of the Jamaica Olympic Association/Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association Olympic Destiny Series. At the second leg of the series on Saturday,...
Olympian Shadae Lawrence twice extended her national discus record at the weekend. Throwing in Tucson, Arizona, on May 22, Lawrence ended with a distance of 67.05m, the fourth-longest throw in the world this year. The Jamaican was second at the...
Olympic and World Championship gold medallist Michael Frater said he learnt a lot from the late Dennis Johnson when their paths crossed at the University of Technology (UTech). Speaking days after Johnson’s recent passing, Frater described him as...
Not surprisingly, Kemba Nelson has slashed her personal best for the 100 metres after registering a time of 11.18 seconds while competing at the West Coast Classic in Arizona on Saturday, in her first run at that distance for the season. She...
The bid by Simon Tomlinson and Kane Watson to qualify for the Olympics is over. However, they have both emerged from the Latin American table tennis qualifying tournament in Rosario, Argentina, with a positive outlook, and Watson says more high-...
