LAST WEEK, Trinidad and Tobago relay stalwart Deon Lendore lost his life in a car accident at age 29. The tragedy and his consistent contribution to the twin-island republic’s success in the 4x400 have led 1997 World 200-metre champion Ato Boldon...
A PERSONAL best equalling time on the weekend by Olympic relay gold medallist Briana Williams equates to mission accomplished. Despite a flawed race, Williams sped 7.18 seconds to place third at the Purple Tiger meet in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her...
One of the smartest performances at the recent Jamaica College (JC) Invitational came from outgoing St Jago High senior Jahvel Granville in the Class One 110 metres hurdles. Granville travelled the distance in 14.07 seconds. It was the start to a...
Basketball screeched to a halt in March 2020 when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a stringent lockdown. It’s no wonder the sport’s local community was elated when the Jamaica Basketball Association got the greenlight to return to the...
DANIELLE WILLIAMS, the 2015 World 100-metre hurdles champion, showed her fitness in an over distance race on January 8 in South Carolina. Running over 300 metres at the Orange and Purple Elite meet on the campus of Clemson University, Williams...
A three-way project is about to pump some life into cricket. Working together, the Sports Development Foundation (SDF), the Institute of Sport (INSPORT) and the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) have designed a $12.5 million project aimed at...
THE JAMAICA Volleyball Association (JaVA) has been diligent ever since the COVID-19 pandemic smashed its local and international competition schedule. With training and tournaments removed from the realm of possibility, JaVA had concentrated on...
A PROLONGED leadership battle had put table tennis in the headlines well before the COVID-19 epidemic struck. It was resolved after the virus had started to ravage the island, and when it was over, new Jamaica Table Tennis Association president...
THROWS COACH Julian Robinson sees top-level discus medals in Jamaica's future. Robinson, who coaches Fedrick Dacres and Traves Smikle, also believes that Jamaica has a trio of newcomers who will make the country proud. Daniel Stahl, the giant Swede...
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR of Jamaica’s basketball programme, Alf Remikie, is heartened by the enthusiasm of the players and team in the country’s first local tournament, the Jamaica Basketball Association 3x3 Development Series, since the start of the...
WHEN UNIVERSITY of Louisville’s Jamaican volleyball star Aiko Jones looked ahead in late September, she said, “Our goal is to win the conference again and to make it as far as we made it last year, we made it to the Sweet Sixteen, or further.”...
RESPECTED US publication TRACK AND FIELD NEWS has named Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson Herah its female Athlete of the Year for 2021. In a December 21 story, TRACK AND FIELD NEWS detailed her journey from early season doubt to a glorious sprint double...
EVEN WITH its well-known forays into the sport of bobsled, Jamaica doesn’t have a deep history in winter sports. However, there are indications that the island could develop a competitive ice hockey team. Don Anderson, president of the Jamaica...
Atlanta high schooler London Johnson was one of the big stars at the recent Centro Under-17 Basketball Championships in Mexico. Johnson helped Jamaica to sixth place with performances that earned him a place on the tournament’s all-star team. Team...
After a crushing disappointment earlier at the World Short Course Swimming championships in Abu Dhabi, five-time Olympian Alia Atkinson has safely made it to the 100 metres breaststroke final. Atkinson will compete in the last major final of her...
ALIA ATKINSON is entered for the last swim meet of her career, the World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, which begins today and runs through to December 21. Atkinson, a four-time winner in this championship, is scheduled to compete in the...
IF OLYMPIC 110-metre hurdles champion Hansle Parchment wins the 2021 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award, it will highlight Jamaica’s depth in his event. With six of the nation’s fastest-ever male sprint hurdlers all still on the track...
KAVIAN KERR, Jamaica’s 2021 World Under-20 long jump bronze medal winner, began his collegiate endeavours on Saturday with two trips to the track in Manhattan, Kansas. Kerr laid down two solid performances with indoor runs over 60 and 300 metres....
THE WORLD’S governing body for track and field is not the only organisation to name Elaine Thompson Herah as Female Athlete of the Year. Just days after World Athletics crowned the Jamaican sprinter queen of the sport for 2021, an influential...
IN WHAT is expected to be her last competitive effort in the International Swimming League (ISL), Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson continues to peak brilliantly. Atkinson snipped a recent season’s best down to 29.15 seconds in the 50-metre breaststroke and...
HIGH JUMPER Lamara Distin has started the new United States college indoor circuit where she left off outdoors. Jumping in Arkansas last Friday, Distin snaked over a bar set at 1.86 metres, which is not far from her outdoor best, set earlier this...
OVERWHELMED WITH pride, Jamaica’s sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah expressed happiness at being on top of the world after being crowned as World Athletics’ Female Athlete of the Year. Thompson-Herah, who won both the 100 and 200 metres at the Tokyo...
ANDREW LUE, president of the Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA), says regional federations are pressing for a more even share of the sport’s resources so they can develop players. Lue, who attended the just-concluded World Championships in...
THE FORM of Jamaican Aiko Jones on the United States collegiate volleyball circuit has not gone unnoticed at home. Jones is a lynchpin on a University of Louisville team that is riding high in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)...
JAMAICA’S ELAINE Thompson Herah is still in the running for the World Athletics title of Athlete of the Year. Thompson Herah, who won both the 100 and 200 metres at the Tokyo Olympics, was named yesterday by the sport’s governing body alongside...
