One of my favourite people describes me as a recalcitrant. The description fits because of my resistance, in some areas, to change. Now you know, you'll understand why I'm slow to embrace concepts like 'the living legend' and the 'Serena Slam'.True...
Published:Sunday | September 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Approximately 800 men went to Beijing to seek gold medals at the 2015 World Championships last month. Only 22 of them succeeded. An even smaller group of five - Ashton Eaton of America, his compatriot Christian Taylor, Kenyan Julius Yego, Wayde van...
Published:Friday | September 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
In the just concluded 15th World Championships, several athletes entertained fans with their best efforts. However, five women stood out in Beijing, the host city of the meet. They were Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland, Allyson Felix of the United...
Published:Monday | August 31, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Though his effort left Jamaica just short of a medal in Sunday's World Championship 4x400-metre final, Javon Francis produced a sterling anchor-leg effort.As he did to rescue a silver medal in the same event two years ago, the 21-year-old national...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
If Elaine Thompson wins the 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, she will extend a long history of Jamaican success. The women's 200m has given Jamaica more medals than any other individual discipline. A win for the University...
Published:Sunday | August 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
As good as Jamaica's 100-metre men have been in the World Championships, their female counterparts have, in some ways, been even better. They have three gold medals just like the men do, but have sprinted to more medals more often.Leading the line...
Published:Saturday | August 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
The men's 100 metres is a flagship event for Jamaica these days at the World Championships, but it took an age to move the country's medal tally in the event from one to two. Thankfully, those days of waiting are long gone. Not only is Jamaica...
Published:Tuesday | August 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
O'Dayne Richards is already the finest shot-putter in Jamaica's history. Richards, however, isn't resting on his hard-won laurels. He has his eye on Beijing, the upcoming World Championships and the 22-metre line.The stocky MVP putter produced a...
Odayne Richards is already the finest shot putter in Jamaica's history. Richards, however, isn't resting on his hard-won laurels. He has his eye on Beijing, the upcoming World Championships, and the 22-metre line.The stocky MVP putter produced...
Last week, Fedrick Dacres won Jamaica's first ever Pan-American Games gold medal in the discus throw. His coach, Julian Robinson, says Dacres, who is also Jamaica's first World Youth and World Junior discus winner, has been through a lot to earn his...
For the first time ever, Jamaica will have a full complement of athletes in the men's discus at the World Championships.Julian Robinson, who coaches one of the three men who have qualified for the Champion-ships, says the throws community is excited...
Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
The Pan-Am Games will be a World Championships 'mock exam' for Federick Dacres. That's the way Dacres and his coach, Julian Robinson, are approaching the men's discus throw at the Games this week. Robinson says his charge is building towards the...
An American publication, Track and Field News, now predicts that Jamaica will win nine medals at the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Beijing.This prediction was released on the publication's Internet website on July 10 and suggests that...
Shericka Jackson didn't win the women's 400 at the recent National Senior Championships, but her performance there impressed many. Improving at the University of Technology, Jackson produced three personal bests en route to second place. It was a...
Sprint queen Veronica Campbell-Brown will continue her preparation for the World Championships with races in two upcoming meets in Europe.Campbell-Brown will touch the track over 100m at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Hungary tomorrow and in...
Jamaica will win 11 medals at the upcoming World Athletics Championships. That's according to the latest prediction from the US magazine Track and Field News. The magazine foresees gold for Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Omar McLeod, Kaliese...
At least one shrewd observer believes Omar McLeod has the potential to challenge the world record in the 110-metre hurdles.Ray Harvey, once holder of a world indoor hurdles best, was hugely impressed with McLeod's world-leading run of 12.97 seconds...
On his last two trips to the National Stadium, Asafa Powell has sprinted to identical times of 9.84 seconds. For those who need good performances to be repeated for verification, Powell has satisfied their scrutiny.However, a look behind that number...
Twenty years ago, the men's 400 metres was a highlight of the 1995 National Championships. Greg Haughton and Danny McFarlane became the first Jamaicans to run under 45 seconds for the distance on local soil. Haughton went on to win individual medals...
Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart have dominated Jamaica's female sprinting for over a decade. Between them, they have won every national 100-metre title on offer from 2004 onward. This big four...
The National Stadium in Kingston is the best athletics venue.That's the view of American hurdler Jasmin Stowers as expressed in a recent interview. Stowers, who won the 100 metres hurdles at the Jamaica Invitational in May, described the 53-year-old...
Asafa Powell has won five National Championships titles in the 100 metres. If he is to get number six in the event at this week's nationals, he will have to beat none other than the best sprinter of all time, Usain Bolt.Preliminary entry lists...
Published:Thursday | June 18, 2015 | 11:21 AMHubert Lawrence
Fresh from solid runs in Atlanta and Kingston, Javon Francis has his sights firmly fixed on the Jamaican National Championships. The 20 year-old 400-metre runner said his target is to run well enough at the nationals to make the team to the 15th...
Not long after a near dead heat with World Junior champion Jaheel Hyde in the 400-metre hurdles at last Saturday's JAAA All Comers meet, four-time national champion Leford Green said the 18-year-old Hyde represents growth in the intermediate hurdles...
Published:Wednesday | May 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
There are a surprisingly large number of people who think Usain Bolt ran badly in Ostrava on Tuesday. The tall man fought the elements and starting miscues on his way to victory in his second 200-metre race since the 2013 World Championships. Despite...
