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Global Relay Teams Add Spice to Penn Carnival 2024
Organizers of the Penn Relay carnival will announce the final schedule of events soon for the 128th staging on April 25-27, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US. And the much-heralded USA vs. The World Saturday afternoon feature will return in nature but not in name. In addition, some of the most premier college programs…
Read MoreWorld Records Close Out ’23 Pre Classic
The 2023 Prefontaine Classic (the final stop in the Diamond League series, which doubled as the Wanda Diamond League Final) ended on a high note, literally, Sunday (September 17) in the US city of Eugene, Oregon, with pole vault and 5000m world records as the two-day affair rose to a crescendo. Swedish pole vault sensation…
Read MoreA Vintage Thompson-Herah Emerges on the Horizon
Jamaica’s double-double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is on her way back to where she belongs: the top of the Olympic podium. After two years of injury woes, slow times by her standards, a new shoe sponsor, and a new coach who knows how to work around her injuries, Thompson-Herah has found new life and renewed…
Read MoreMoments of Highs and Lows in Budapest
USA’s Crouser Slides to Gold USA’s Ryan Crouser, the shot-put world record holder at 23.56m (77’-3¾”), managed to bring himself back from two blood clots in his lower leg as well as the stressing out over finding the safest treatment and wondering whether he would be able to defend his title in Budapest to heaving…
Read MoreA Case of Gender Disparity at Champs ’23
It was only the second day of the 113th annual ISSA Grace Kennedy-sponsored Jamaica national Boys and Girls High School Track and Field Championships (better known as Champs) when arguably the greatest history was made since its inception. It was truly historic when for the first time in the 113 years of Champs that a Class…
Read MoreLet Thompson-Herah Breathe and Do Her Job on The Track
Now that the track season is over, it is time to reflect on two unpleasant sentiments among Jamaican followers of the sport, one of which has caught the attention of many, even American sprinter Sha’Carrie Richardson. It is interesting that every time Jamaican senior women compete in a global 4x100m relay, a disturbing level of…
Read MoreWorld Women’s 100m: Who Will Wear the Coveted Crown?
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (35) is determined to leave Oregon with the 100m gold medal. She has the world-leading time of 10.67, and she has posted three sub-11secs three times this season. One full second behind her is fast-finishing compatriot Shericka Jackson (28) at 10.77. Nipping at Jackson’s heel is double double Olympic champion and their…
Read MoreShericka Jackson Dangerous in the 200m, But Don’t Jump the Gun
A sprinting machine named Shericka Jackson zoomed to the top of the world last Sunday evening after defeating her main Jamaican rivals in an anticipated 200m race at the Jamaica Trials in Kingston. The event was one of several of its kind in Europe and the Americas last Sunday (26) to select teams for the…
Read MoreJamaica Trials Will Reveal New Guards after Bolt, Powell, et al
Some years ago, Asafa Powell was Jamaica’s flag bearer in the flat 100m; that was after Raymond Stewart was the top male sprinter the country had. Fans lamented that Powell needed help so the country could have a competitive relay team, one that challenged the world again after Errol Stewart, Michael Fray, Clifton Forbes and…
Read MoreThe Ryan Crouser’s Shot Put World Record That Wasn’t
The January 29 Millrose Games in New York was in full run with warmth all around as a snowstorm blanketed the arena. Inside, athletes were running, jumping, and throwing indoor, but it was another Ryan Crouser moment in the putter’s circle. For about an hour-and-a-half, track and field fans inside the Armory at the top…
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