OUTSIDE OF a long-awaited return to his best form, nobody understood the reason former World 100-metre champion Yohan Blake was so full of emotion after winning the men’s 100-metre title at the JAAA National Senior and Junior Athletics...
FORMER CAPTAIN Simone Forbes and veteran local coach Sylvester Campbell believe that the Sunshine Girls will have to be very disciplined and mentally tough in order to secure a medal at next month’s Commonwealth Games. Netball Jamaica (NJ) has...
CHIEF STARTER at this year’s Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association’s (JAAA) Senior National Championships, Ludlow Watts, says the organisation will be employing the best starting equipment available for this week’s start at the National...
REGGAE BOYZ striker Shamar Nicholson says he is determined to break his scoring drought for the national side against Mexico when both teams meet in their Nations League encounter on Tuesday at the National Stadium. Nicholson, who has scored 10...
NETBALL JAMAICA (NJ) received a massive boost for its Centre Pass programme after Australian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Bruce Lendon, handed over a cheque of AUD20,000 (or J$1.9 million) to assist with covering the expenses of high-performance...
THE SUNDAY Gleaner has been reliably informed that Burnley’s women’s coach, Jonathan Morgan, and former national assistant coach Lorne Donaldson, are the front runners for the Reggae Girlz head coaching job. A source inside the Jamaica Football...
WITH TWO goal attack spots for the taking on Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls 12-member team to this year’s Commonwealth Games, Rebekah Robinson and Amanda Pinkney are feeling very confident. The Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham, England, from...
HAVING WATCHED his charge finish a disappointing eighth at the 2021 World Under-20 Championships, Julian Robinson, coach of national junior thrower Kobe Lawrence, is eyeing a podium finish at this year’s event. The World Under-20 Championships...
JAMAICAN QUARTER-MILER Javon Francis continues his good form this season after clocking a season’s best time for second place at the Felix Sanchez Invitational in the Dominican Republic yesterday. Francis, who recently recovered from a groin...
IN A show of respect to the late Chris Armond, Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), yesterday raised a black flag to half mast in the infield at Caymanas Park in Gregory Park, St Catherine. Armond, whose booming voice as a...
OLYMPIAN AND veteran coach Bertland Cameron says his teenage quarter-miler, Gregory Prince, has nothing to fear when he goes up against the senior athletes at this year’s National Championships slated for the National Stadium from June 23-26....
DESPITE RUNNING in adverse weather conditions at the East Coast International Track and Field Championships, Jamaica’s top junior sprinters Bryan Levell and Brianna Lyston still managed to brush aside their opponents to win the boys’ and girls’ 100...
PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia: Kingston College’s (KC) head coach Leaford Grant has described his team victory in the 4x400m relay at the Penn Relays inside the Franklin Field stadium yesterday as “icing on the cake”. KC turned in a spectacular...
After recovering from a series of injuries this season, 2016 Olympic and 2017 World 110-metre hurdles gold medallist Omar McLeod said he is taking a much smarter approach to the season this year, as he seeks to regain the world title in Eugene,...
COREY BENNETT, head coach of Hydel High School, says the institution’s sprint star Brianna Lyston will not be rushed into the professional ranks. Lyston is having a phenomenal season, smashing the 200m record at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and...
SUPREME VENTURES Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) activated a new well at Caymanas Park just in time for the start of Jamaica’s dry season. Aldane Anderson, manager of racetrack operations at SVREL, said the new well will greatly assist...
Jamaica’s middle distance star J’Voughnn Blake has set his sights on capturing his second gold medal at the Carifta Games when he competes in the semifinals of the 800 metres at the National Stadium today. Blake, who has been struggling with a...
DANIELLE NOBLE says her execution was the factor which led to her capturing the first gold medal of her career for Jamaica at the Carifta Games at the National Stadium yesterday. The 14-year-old Noble won the girls’ under-17 high jump with a new...
“I AM a little tired of silver.” Those are the words of Wolmer’s Girls’ Malaika Cunningham, who had to settle for second place in the girls’ Class One high jump event at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 400m hurdles bronze medallist Rushell Clayton is happily getting on with the business of getting ready for this year’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, after what has been a long injury lay-off. Clayton made her first...
THE JAMAICA Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) says it will be ratcheting up testing at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships, which will be held at the National Stadium from Tuesday. JADCO had scaled down the testing of the...
PRESIDENT OF the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Keith Wellington says tickets for this year’s highly anticipated GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships have been going extremely well. The five-day championships, from April 5...
WITH NO World Championship titles yet under her belt, Jamaica’s sprint sensation Elaine Thompson Herah has been working assiduously this season with the chance of a gold medal in Eugene, Oregon, beckoning. Thompson Herah, the 2020 double Olympic...
Vere Technical’s Kaylia Kelly sped to a personal best time to emerge the overall winner of the girls’ Class One 200 metres at the John Wolmer Speedfest at the National Stadium yesterday. Kelly, who has been in impressive form this season, clocked...
WITH THE Reggae Boyz now out of contention for a spot at this year’s FIFA World Cup (WC) in Qatar, midfielder Ravel Morrison remains committed to the national team with the prospect of winning other football tournaments. Morrison, who plies his...
