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Excitement fills the air

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

The 2015 IAAF World Championships is inching closer and it's beginning to feel like the Chinese are really getting into it now.There are many activities taking place in and around the Bird's Nest; locals hanging around trying to get a glimpse of...

IAAF snub a threat to Blake rule?

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 7:24 PMAndre Lowe

BEIJING, China:Dr Warren Blake's handle on the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) leadership may have loosened a bit after he failed in his bid to secure a spot on the IAAF Council during yesterday's Congress in Beijing ahead of the...

Francis blasts JAAA

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

BEIJING, China:MVP Track Club boss Stephen Francis has again questioned the necessity of pre-championship training camps as he bashed the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) for what he described as a poorly organised exercise in...

Lord Coe is new IAAF boss, Jamaican Garth Gayle elected to technical committee

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe, Special Projects Editor - Sports

BEIJING, China: Brit Sebastian Coe is the new president of the IAAF, replacing outgoing Lamine Diack, after beating Ukraine's Sergey Bubka 115 - 92 during voting at the IAAF Congress. Meanwhile, president of the Jamaica Athletics...

Dacres wants place in final

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:38 PMAndre Lowe

BEIJING, China:National discus and Pan American champion, Federick Dacres, is not putting too much pressure on himself as he gets ready to compete in his first major international competition, the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China.Dacres,...

Campbell ready to test the waters

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

BEIJING, China:It took him being thrown into a 5K as a youngster at Bellefield High School for Kemoy Campbell to recognise his potential as a distance runner.Who would have thought that a few years later he would be preparing for his first appearance...

Chinese food … and here come the Americans

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

I must admit that I'm never too adventurous where food is concerned, and Chinese cuisine doesn't exactly get me excited. And before you knit your brow, I've long discovered that the typical fare served in our neck o' the woods as 'Chinese' food is...

'We should be informed' - Blake concerned athletes not reporting to camp on time

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

BEIJING, China:President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Dr Warren Blake, seemed less than pleased with some high-profile late arrivals to the team's training camp in Tottori, Japan, ahead of the IAAF World Championships....

The Great Firewall of China

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

It took us pretty much a full day to get here, but we are finally in China ahead of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.It's been seven years since I was last in this place and four since my last trip to this side of the world.I almost forgot...

Co-captain Asafa Powell looking to lead Jamaica team by example

Published:Sunday | August 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Newly appointed co-captain, Asafa Powell, says he is honoured with the appointment and is looking to lead by example at the fast-approaching IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China.Powell, now in his 12th year as a senior international representative...

Confident Cato eyes medal in Beijing

Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Fuelled by his recent bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto and his experience training alongside some of the best in the world, Jamaican 400m hurdler Roxroy Cato says he has grown in confidence heading into next week's IAAF World...

Why Edino Steele did not report to the World Champs camp

Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Jamaican quarter-miler Edino Steele has sought to explain his no show at Jamaica's World Championship training camp in Tottori, Japan, at the same time asking via a social media post for time and space. Steele, said that he was dealing with...

Bolt to arrive in Japan today

Published:Thursday | August 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Jamaican sprinting superstar Usain Bolt is expected to arrive at Jamaica's pre-World Championships camp in Tottori, Japan, today after spending the last few days relaxing, after a gruelling few weeks of training.The world's fastest man was given...

Edino Steele fails to report to World Champs training camp, Chambers to replace him

Published:Thursday | August 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe, Special Projects Editor - Sports

NACAC Senior Championship 400-metre bronze medallist Ricardo Chambers is to replace Edino Steele at the World Championships in Beijing, August 22-30. The belated decision to call Chambers to join the team was made after Steele, a member of Jamaica...

Usain Bolt relaxing after gruelling training for World Champs

Published:Thursday | August 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe, Special Projects Editor - Sports

The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, spent the past few days taking it slow in Monte Carlo, Monaco as he gets ready to unleash some speed at next week's IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China. Bolt, who spent the past few weeks being...

Morgan getting in shape for big throw at World Championships

Published:Wednesday | August 12, 2015 | 2:49 PMAndre Lowe

Since throwing a world-leading and national record (NR) 68.19 metres in early June, IAAF World Championships discus medal hopeful Jason Morgan has struggled badly, only once breaking the 62-metre mark.Morgan, the bronze-medal winner from last year's...

Concern over arrivals - Bolt to join camp within two days, MVP athletes delayed by visa issues

Published:Wednesday | August 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Sprint king Usain Bolt is expected to arrive in Tottori, Japan, within two days, while Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kaliese Spencer, Elaine Thompson and the majority of the MVP Track Club athletes selected to represent Jamaica at the World Championships...

Watts clears air on Chambers' exclusion from World Championships team

Published:Wednesday | August 12, 2015 | 6:00 PMAndre Lowe

Ludlow Watts, manager of Jamaica's team to the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, defended the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association's (JAAA) selection of Rasheed Dwyer to the team, while explaining the exclusion of quarter-miler Ricardo...

Bolt yet to arrive in Japan, visa troubles delay Fraser-Pryce and MVP teammates

Published:Wednesday | August 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe, Special Projects Editor - Sports

Jamaican stars Usain Bolt and Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce are yet to arrive in Tottori, Japan for the World Champs training camp. It's understood that Bolt will arrive by Friday. However, Fraser-Pryce and several of her MVP...

Bolt, SFP head Jamaica's biggest ever World Champs team

Published:Monday | August 10, 2015 | 8:47 PMAndre Lowe

Fifteen individual and relay World Cham-pionships medallistshave been included as the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) yesterday named the island's largest team ever assembled for an IAAF World Championships ahead of the August 22...

Powell, McLeod, VCB win in Atlanta

Published:Sunday | August 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Jamaicans Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Omar McLeod were among the winners at Saturday evening's American Track League meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, while Warren Weir was second, competing in The Netherlands.Powell stopped the clock at 10...

Patience is key - Blake

Published:Thursday | July 30, 2015 | 8:29 PMAndre Lowe

It has been a long road back for former world 100m champion Yohan Blake, who continues to lay the blocks for his comeback after two serious injuries in as many years derailed his career.Blake, the second-fastest man in history in both the 100m (9.69...

Mills encouraged by Bolt's return

Published:Sunday | July 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

LONDON, England:Despite handing out a failing grade in his athlete's second of two runs, coach Glen Mills was left generally satisfied with Usain Bolt's back-to-back 9.87 runs at the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games on Friday, inside the London Olympic...

Francis expects Thompson, Spencer to go faster

Published:Sunday | July 26, 2015 | 5:14 PMAndre Lowe

LONDON, England:MVP Track Club head coach Stephen Francis is expecting ever-improving 200 metres sprinter Elaine Thompson to go much faster before the end of the season, after the 23-year-old's impressive 22.10 (-0.3) personal-best and win at the...

Powell clocks 90th sub-10 in Swiss win

Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2015 | 4:46 PMAndre Lowe

In-form Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell won again on the circuit, adding to his 100 metres sub-10 seconds tally on the way to outclassing a decent field at the Gala Dei Castelli meet in Bellinzona, Switzerland yesterday.Powell sped out of the blocks...

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