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O’Hara Leads Calabar to 25th Champs Title
Calabar High School brought the 105th Jamaica Boys and Girls Athletics Championship (Champs) to a scintillating finish with a record run in the Boys Open 4x400m relay in Kingston Saturday night (28th). The green-and-black uniformed team amassed 280.5 points – 15.5 points more than archrivals Kingston College (KC) – to take home the Mortimer Geddes…
Read MoreTyson Gay Has A New Coach
Former US sprint champion Tyson Gay, who was banned for one year for using anabolic steroid, has joined the camp of sprint coach John Smith, according to Gay’s agent Mark Wetmore, a March 20 ESPN.com report said. Gay was banned in 2013 and stripped of his 2012 London Olympic silver medal that he won as…
Read MoreOn The Indoor Circuit
Alabama’s Burchell Sets Collegiate Record in 60m University of Alabama senior sprinter Remona Burchell of Jamaica set a collegiate record in the women’s 60m dash on Saturday afternoon (28th) while winning the event at the 2015 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships at Nutter Fieldhouse in Lexington, Kentucky. Burchell, the 2014 NCAA indoor 60m…
Read MoreJamaica Needs an 800m Prodigy
It has been a long, dry, lean season. It has been decades long; but there is no end in sight. Jamaica is truly blessed, but certainly not with the gift of a promising 800m talent. If you are reading this, and you were born in 1977, it was a very good year. It was the…
Read MoreBliss Smashes LSU Shot Put Record
After opening the season by smashing Louisiana State University’s (LSU) indoor school record in the shot put at the LSU Invitational on 9 January, Lady Tiger senior Tori Bliss eclipsed her own mark and extended her NCAA lead in the event with a winning throw of 57ft-4¾in at the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet on Saturday…
Read MoreAn Olympic Crossroads for Jamaica?
NEW YORK – Jamaicans have excelled in everything globally, from the academia to business to entertainment to sports. Although it is next to impossible to comfortably select a discipline in which the country has been most singularly dominant, fans of track and field will point out that although the modern Games had their inaugural beginnings…
Read MoreZola Golden Untamed
When Zola Golden as a junior at Arlington High School in LaGrangeville, New York, lowered her 300m personal best (PB) to 37.91secs in February 2014, her feat ranked her at the top in New York State and ninth on the US all-time list. But her impressive times didn’t just come out of the blue; the…
Read MoreBritish ¼-Miler Wears Jamaica Tatoo
As lead-off quarter-milers settled in their blocks for the men’s 4x400m relay at the 2014 European Championships, the camera zoomed in on Britain’s Conrad Williams in lane 5, enlarging a tattoo on his right bicep: an outline of the island of Jamaica with the island’s name across it. While the commentators seemed oblivious to it,…
Read MoreJaheel Hyde, Usain Bolt Clock World Best Times
Versatile hurdling sensation Jaheel Hyde of Jamaica took his country and the world to a time no-one his age has seen before: an astounding 12.96secs in the 110m hurdles at the second Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China on Saturday (23), shaving 0.16 seconds off the old mark to register what is regarded as a…
Read MoreMontsho’s B Sample Confirms Positive Result
Amantle Montsho’s problems have gotten worse; her B sample drug test from the Commonwealth Games also returned positive, and now she faces a two-year ban from competition. The 31-year-old Botswana quarter-miler was provisionally suspended after her A sample failed a doping test following the 400m final at Games in Glasgow on 29 July. Montsho requested…
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