Posts Tagged ‘Features’
World 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 MoreFor Thompson-Herah and Warholm, 2021 A season Like No Other
What a year it was for a flat sprinter and a hurdler, worlds apart! After a four-year roller coaster ride burdened with an Achilles tendon injury, frustration, doubt and tears, the 2021 season turned out for Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah to be one of personal records, super-fast times, and accolades coming from as far away as…
Read MoreTrack and Field Resets Clock with World Records and More
After one long year of no Olympics, no New York Millrose Games, no Caribbean regional CARIFTA Games, no Jamaica Boys and Girls Championships that the world has come to know about, track and field has stepped up its speed to full return amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Just over two weeks ago, Jamaica was given the…
Read MoreHow The Jamaicans Exceeded Expectations in Doha
Jamaicans were concerned about their would-be performances in Doha, but as it turned out, it was totally unfounded. At the Jamaican Trials in late June, for example, hurdling revelation Danielle Williams was charged with a false start in the women’s 100m final, and was accordingly thrown out of the race, a la IAAF false start…
Read MoreTajay Gayle Jumps into Jamaica’s History Book
Jamaica’s 23-year-old long jumper Tajay Gayle leaped into his country’s history book yesterday (28) by winning long jump gold with 8.69 meters at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Doha, Qatar. Gayle, who had an excellent season going into Doha, struggled in the qualifying round the day before the final, not being able to…
Read MoreBolt, Fraser-Pryce Share Stage with 800m Compatriot Prodigy
Urgency of the Jamaican 800m New York – If you are Jamaican, chances are that you are fast: fast talker, fast walker or fast runner. In Jamaica, there is always an immediate need for speed. Herb McKenley, Merlene Ottey, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Sprint King Usain Bolt, Sprint Empress Shelly Ann-Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson, did not come…
Read MoreHigh Performance, Medals for Queens Women at 2017 Worlds
It’s rare that athletes from New York City’s Public School Athletic League (PSAL) high school background go on to represent the USA in track and field at the professional and international level. At the August 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, New York City, Queens in particular, saw three of its own achieve high performance…
Read MoreBrits Scratch Women’s 4×1 Team from World Relays
Concerns over injuries have caused British Athletics to withdraw Britain’s women’s 4x100m team entry from this weekend’s IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas as a precautionary measure. According to a British Athletics press release, Daryll Neita [hamstring] and Desiree Henry [knee], members of the 2016 Rio Olympic bronze medal team, have both picked up slight injury…
Read MoreNo Bolt, Powell on Jamaica’s Team to The Bahamas
Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will not be at the World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas this weekend. And news broke yesterday (19th) about the late withdrawal of Rio Olympic 4x100m gold medalist Asafa Powell and Julian Forte, a member of the relay team to the Bahamas in 2015. Quarter-miler and national 400m record holder 20Rusheen McDonald…
Read More20 Olympians, 11 Rio Medalists on US World Relays Squad
The USA has selected 20 of its Olympians, including 11 medalists, from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, to participate in the 2017 IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas this weekend, April 22-23. The Relays will consist of five events spread across four disciplines: the 4x100m, 4x200m, 4x400m and 4x800m for both men and women,…
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