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USA To Take on The World at Penn Relays Carnival
A looming showdown on the track between the USA and the world – more like the USA and Jamaica for the most part – will be played out between 12:38 and 2:52 p.m. on Saturday (30th) at the 122nd Penn Relays Carnival being held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The proverbial David and…
Read MoreAthletes Shine at Meets in The Caribbean
LaShawn Merritt, Kirani James, Tory Bowie, and Shaunae Miller ran impressive early season times last weekend at the Chris Brown Invitational in the Bahamas. Farther south, at the MVP Track Club Classic in Jamaica, Yohan Blake showed that he has shaken the fear of injury his coach Glen Mills said he developed as a result…
Read MoreFormer LSU Tiger Anchors USA to World Indoor 4×4 Gold
In bouncing back from disqualification in the qualifying heats of the Men’s 400m, former Louisiana State University (LSU) Tiger Vernon Norwood became a World Champion for the second time in his career, when he anchored the United States to gold in the men’s 4x400m relay last Sunday’s at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in…
Read MoreAfter Jamaica’s Champs, The Rivalry Continues
There it was, to the world, the biggest and best high school track and field competition ever. It’s the Jamaica Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships dubbed Champs and held over five days at the National Stadium in the nation’s capital, Kingston. The recent edition of the 106-year-old competition (March 15 to 19) was as…
Read MoreTrio Shuts US out of Worlds Hurdles Medals
A Jamaican and two Frenchmen raced ahead of the field to shut out the USA from winning any medal in the men’s 60m hurdles at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on US soil in Portland, Oregon this past weekend (Mar. 17-20). Twenty-one year old Omar McLeod, a Jamaican business management student at the University of…
Read MoreLSU Tigers Run PBs at Conference Clash Power Five Invitational
After both running the NCAA’s No. 2-ranked times in their events in Friday’s (Jan. 22) qualifiers, Louisiana State University (LSU) juniors Jordan Moore and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake took one step further in Saturday’s finals as they both clocked NCAA-leading personal bests (PB) to headline the inaugural Conference Clash Power Five Invitational at the Birmingham Crossplex in…
Read MoreDon’t Cast Doubt on Who’ve Worked Hard for Their Success
NEW YORK – There have been loud whispers from UK athletic officials regarding expunging the track and field universe of all its current world records so that any new mark might be true and common, free from the scourge of drugs. What UK athletics and its supporters are positing is beyond ridiculous. The suggestion is that…
Read MoreThose Beijing 2015 Shockers and Surprises
The 2015 Beijing World Championships ended in high excitement two months ago after nine days of interesting competition among some of the world’s leading movers and shakers of track and field. There were Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann-Fraser-Pryce, the fastest man and woman, respectively, and decathlete Ashton Eaton, the two-time record-breaking “super athlete” of the sport,…
Read MoreJamaicans Ferocious at 2015 World Championships
The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was once renowned as the Pirate Capitol of the world; these days, it is known simply as the land of reggae as well as the sprinting capital of the world. Behaving like pirates of the Caribbean, to borrow the title of a popular movie, a contingent of 53 Jamaican athletes…
Read MoreBolt Strikes 9.87 on Return to Competition in London
It was an uncharacteristically rainy and chilly London weather in which Usain Bolt made a convincing and much welcomed return to competition at the Sainsbury anniversary Games yesterday (24). He won both his 100m heat and the final in the identical time of 9.87secs – his season best (SB) – over two good fields and…
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