HURDLERS SOMETIMES fall and it can happen at the worst possible time. If you doubt that, ask Shamer Blake or Demario Prince. The two young hurdlers enter 2023 chasing redemption after disappointing falls last season. As fate would have it, they...
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION High School got its 2023 track season off to a fine start at Jamaica College last weekend, thanks to the hard work by its student-athletes and expert guidance by the team’s coaching staff. In addition, the Immaculate team had...
With her blazing speed, Serena Cole is a long jump coach’s dream athlete. Understandably, her jumps coach Jeremy Delisser is hoping that the outgoing Edwin Allen High School senior will continue with the long jump and the 100 metres throughout her...
In his 13 years at Immaculate Conception High School, head coach Franz Forde has helped the school to three top-10 finishes at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, four more in the top 15 and a high point score of 81 in...
With regions elsewhere in the world being assailed by new outbreaks of the COVID-19 virus, local track and field meet organisers are being asked to be on their guard. This appeal to maintain many of the sport’s COVID-19 protocols has come from...
BEACH VOLLEYBALL and Jamaica seem to be a natural match but not every beach has the space to host tournaments. That’s the challenge the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA) is working to overcome as it seeks to spread this version of the sport....
In a late-season run in regional tournaments in 2022, Jamaica took the first step towards qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in beach volleyball. Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA) President Jacqueline Cowan wants to build on that success. She...
Basketball fans are in for a treat. The second staging of the E1 Caribbean Pro Basketball League will start tomorrow inside the National Arena, once again pairing top local exponents with professionals from overseas. Though the tournament is in...
Jura Levy, a World Championships and Olympic Games medal winner, will headline the first local meet of the 2023 track and field season. Levy will test her speed at the On Di Run Sprint Fest, which is being staged today on the grounds of Jamaica...
JAMAICA BASKETBALL Association (JBA) president, Paulton Gordon, has pointed to the invitation of an Italian academy as one of the synergies his organisation will be looking to take advantage of as a way to help develop the sport. “We have an...
THE JAMAICA Table Tennis Association (JTTA) is focused on preparing the nation’s teams for the upcoming Caribbean Championships for both seniors and juniors with local tournaments and national squad training. “We plan to have a tournament at least...
1. Will Elaine Thompson Herah come back to her best? Sensational in 2021, Elaine Thompson Herah wasn’t herself on the track last season. “It is new to me,” she said of the training programme designed by her husband Deron. “It’s almost like my...
I’d hate to be one of the persons who have to decide whether Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce or Shericka Jackson is the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year. Both of them are World champions and they both dominated their prime events. The choice is so...
Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez was named the top goalkeeper of the recently concluded World Cup in Qatar, but he was only one of a group of men who were superb between the posts. In fact, football analysts feel that the standard of goalkeeping was...
Respected United States journal Track and Field News has mirrored World Athletics by naming Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and American 400-metre hurdler Sydney McLaughlin as its male and female athletes of the year. However, while voting...
After a two-year hiatus, the Neville Myton Road Race returns to the local competition calendar on January 1. It will be staged for the 36th time in Myton’s hometown of Old Harbour Bay. Race organiser Dennis May said road racers and the Old Harbour...
FOUR YEARS from now, the FIFA World Cup will see 48 teams contesting the tournament for the first time in its history. Roy Simpson, Jamaica’s men’s team manager, and Xavier Gilbert, a member of the national coaching panel, aren’t worried that the...
With Jamaica’s Aiko Jones solid at the net, the University of Louisville made history a week ago simply by reaching the NCAA women’s volleyball final. However, the bid to win the title fell short. Jones hammered 32 kills in the round of 16, the...
LIONEL MESSI and Kylian Mbappé were the two best players at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Football analyst Clyde Jureidini, Excelsior High technical director Xavier Gilbert, and national men’s team manager Roy Simpson all agree on that. Ask...
Sunday’s riveting FIFA World Cup final in Qatar gave fans more than they bargained for. Bedazzled by a game that ended by a dramatic penalty shoot-out, football analyst Clyde Jureidini says the final went beyond the fairy-tale ending he had...
NATIONAL MEN’S team manager Roy Simpson and Harbour View stalwart Clyde Jureidini have made some tough calls during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Jureidini went against the grain and predicted that the magnificent run by Morocco would end at the hand...
MOROCCO GET high praise from football analyst Clyde Jureidini for a World Cup performance that has taken the African nation past three teams ranked among FIFA’s top 10. However, he tips France to survive their World Cup semi-final today in Qatar...
Lionel Messi must get on the ball more often if Argentina are to overcome the steely resolve of Croatia in today’s FIFA World Cup semifinal in Qatar. That’s the combined verdict from TVJ football analyst Andrew Price and national team manager Roy...
Whenever Croatia are playing a World Cup knockout game, there’s a possibility that the result could be decided by a penalty shoot-out. According to sports psychologist Yanique Levy, penalty takers shoulder huge stress that can only be mitigated by...
Speedy Kylian Mbappé could be the X factor when France take on England today in the 2022 World Cup quarterfinals in Qatar. So says TVJ football analyst Andrew Price who expects Mbappé and his French teammate Ousmane Dembélé to work the English...
