In March, Courtney Lawrence won the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Championships Athletics Championships Class One shot put after three years of trying. Now, the Cloud County Junior College freshman is learning how to compete at the next level...
New national badminton champion Matthew Lee is readying himself for a busy 2020 on the court and in the classroom. Winner of his first Jamaica men’s singles title in November, Lee will focus on international tournaments, including the Jamaica...
When Megan Tapper settled into the blocks for the 100-metre hurdles final in Doha at the 17th World Championships, she was on the cusp of her greatest accomplishment in track and field. Sadly, a twitchy start left her in tears, with the other...
After a successful 2019 season, 100 metre hurdler Megan Tapper has bright hopes for next year. Tapper, a World Championship finalist, is up for the challenge she will face against a Jamaican hurdles contingent she describes as brilliant. The 25-...
Experienced sports journalist Lance Whittaker believes that the next generation of track and field stars will have to become friends of the camera. Whittaker, who was the guest speaker at the recent launch of the 17th Heart Institute of the...
“Jamaica could once again have great runners at 800m.” That’s the view of Derek Thompson, the Jamaican who coached Raevyn Rogers and Ajee Wilson to silver and bronze medals in the women’s 800m at the recent World Championships in Doha, Qatar....
A Jamaican is among the world’s best coaches in the women’s 800m. That’s because Kingston native Derek Thompson tutored the United States pair of Raeven Rogers and Ajee Wilson to second and third in the recent World Championships, held in Doha,...
“A travesty.” That’s how Jamaica’s 2005 triple jump world champion Trecia Smith has described the recent cuts to the range of events contested on the Diamond League circuit. The national record holder said the cuts will restrict fans to seeing the...
The recent changes made to the format of schoolboy football are being keenly watched. ISSA president Keith Wellington says his organisation will appraise the effect of the changes, which include the reduction in games played by the top teams and...
Trecia Smith, Jamaica’s 2005 World triple jump champion, was delighted to see the nation’s performances in the jumps at the 17th IAAF World Championships. Smith says Tajay Gayle, winner of the long jump there, could become a superstar. “Like...
Mike Fray, a two-time individual Olympic finalist, died on Wednesday morning in Kingston in an apparent suicide. Police are investigating the circumstances of his death, which appeared to be caused by hanging. Fray, who had injured a shoulder...
The Jamaican surge in the throwing events could hit the skids without financial support for athletes. That is a nagging worry for Julian Robinson, who coached Fedrick Dacres to a silver medal at the recent IAAF World Championships in Doh, Qatar. “...
Newly crowned 400m world champion Steven Gardiner says the world record may fall next year. Gardiner, the 6’5” Bahamian, believes a race with Olympic champion and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk and the fastest man in the world over the...
Danniel Thomas-Dodd could soon be putting the shot past 20m on a regular basis. That’s the view of Julian Robinson, who watched her win a historic silver medal at the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Thomas-Dodd landed a disallowed throw...
Gillian Russell-Love, the 1998 Commonwealth 100m hurdles champion, is backing Danielle Williams to do well in Doha, Qatar, at the IAAF World Championships. Russell-Love, a finalist in the world event in 1995, thinks that the difficulties Williams...
Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith has emerged as a threat in the women’s sprints and some observers have begun to believe that she could win the 200m at the IAAF World Championships in Doha. Among them is 1997 World men’s 200m champion Ato Boldon....
Even though Akeem Bloomfield has taken the long route to being selected to run the 400m at this week’s IAAF World Championships, sprint analyst Ato Boldon thinks the tall Jamaican has a shot at a medal. Boldon has picked US star Michael Norman to...
When respected United States (US) publication Track and Field News made its World Championships predictions in July, it gave Jamaica 10 medals. Now, on the eve of the meet, its latest look at the future has Jamaica getting 13 medals. The new...
Jonathon Edwards of Britain and Ukrainian Inessa Kravets set the world records in the triple at the 1995 World Championships in Goteborg, Sweden. Jamaican jumps expert David Riley thinks both marks could fall in Doha when the 17th World...
With Jamaica’s Akeem Bloomfield now selected to compete in Doha, Qatar, at the 17th IAAF World Championships, a great men’s 400m field will clash when the meet begins on September 28. Bloomfield’s presence will run the number of Doha-bound sub-44-...
Excelsior High School cranked up its effort in track and field this week with the dedication of a new, improved gymnasium. Named the ‘Equator’ by students in the 1960s, the expanded facility now houses a wide range of modern weight-training...
A Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) selection committee will meet this evening to finalise the national team to the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Speaking in Kingston on Friday, September 6, Jamaica Athletics...
With noted coach Anthony Patrick directing affairs, St Catherine High School has emerged as a quality team in recent schoolboy football seasons. Patrick is confident that the Spanish Town Blues will again emerge from the first round of the ISSA/...
A year ago, Marcel Gayle made the move to coach his home town football club Waterhouse FC after a long stint at The University of the West Indies. The first year of the new arrangement saw Waterhouse reaching the final of the Red Stripe Premier...
When Elaine Thompson settles into the blocks for the 100m at the Paris Diamond League meeting today, she’ll be more focused on technique than time. That’s what the 2016 Olympic double gold medallist revealed at a pre-meet press conference yesterday...
