Jamaican overseas-based swimmer Alia Atkinson today failed to qualify for the semi-final of the women’s 200-metre breaststroke at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
A top Jamaican Olympic team official says unusually frequent anti-doping tests are upsetting preparations of his athletes ahead of Friday’s opening races.
Jamaica’s 13 and under tennis team of Ryan Simms, Daniel Harris, Michaelann Denton and coach Llockett McGregor are now in Antigua to participate in the International Tennis Federation Caribbean Development Championships.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has scrapped the 4x400-metre relay world record set by the United States in 1998 because of Antonio Pettigrew’s admission of doping.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Athens hero George Bovell produced a career-best swim but missed out on a semi-final spot in the men’s 100-metre freestyle at the Beijing Olympics last night.
Jamaica’s senior football squad yesterday hammered Premiership club Waterhouse 5-1 in a practice game ahead of the August 20 World Cup qualifier against Canada.
First-time Olympian Samantha Albert has improved 10 places going into today’s third and final stage of the equestrian events at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Jamaica’s 52-member track and field squad is now at the Game Village in Beijing, China after a three-hour bus ride from the training camp in Tianjin, which is located 69 miles southeast of Beijing.
An agreement between the Trinidad and Tobago Government and the country’s football federation has cleared the way for the national senior team to play their 2010 World Cup qualifiers on home soil.
World-renowned coach Stephen Francis is now in charge of Asafa Powell and other members of the MVP Track Club at the Tianjin Training Centre, just outside of Beijing.
