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ADELLE TRACEY did her best to cast aside a difficult and painful week to contest the heats of the 1500 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan yesterday. But, despite her brave attempt to claim a top-six qualifying place and...

Jamaica will be without a competitor in the final of the women’s long jump as Ackelia Smith failed to advance to the final after her best effort of 6.34 metres was not enough to make the top 12 in the field. Smith endured a tough series of jumps...

Maurice Wilson, Team Jamaica’s technical leader, has confirmed that women’s 100-metre hurdles national champion Megan Tapper has withdrawn from the Tokyo World Athletics Championships. Wilson said the team has been informed that Tapper is...

GENEVA (AP): Two-time Olympic finalist Erriyon Knighton was banned for four years yesterday in a doping case that ruled the 21-year-old United States sprinter out of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges...

When he takes to the track for the heats of the men’s 200 metres at the Japan National Stadium, Christopher Taylor will have “no expectations” as the sprinter said making it to the World Athletics Championships was his main goal this season. Taylor...

What is seen as the “Group of Death” in the rural schoolboys daCosta Cup competition will serve up a treat today with a fiery Group I doubleheader at Glenmuir High School. In the opener at 1:30 p.m., defending champions Garvey Maceo High face Vere...

Veteran coach Bert Cameron said he believes that Jamaica stands a strong chance of medalling in the men’s 4x400-metre relay at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as it will come down to a strong team effort in the absence of a standout star....

National Basketball Association (NBA) star Jamal Murray of the Denver Nuggets hosted a two-day camp in Montego Bay last weekend to provide young student-athletes with the tools and resources to improve their skills. The scorching heat did not...

Sebastian Coe has defended the decision to run both the men’s and the women’s 100-metre finals on the same night for the first time in the history of the World Athletics Championship. For many, the two shortest and fastest disciplines in the nine-...

HAVING spent four months in open allowance, a total of three races, including second- and third-place finishes behind grade-one horses, SHEER DELIGHT has served the mandatory three-month jail time, earning parole to overnight allowance, facing 11...